Russians are falsifying children's origins to facilitate their abduction. Here are the details.

Russians are falsifying birth certificates of Ukrainian children, altering their names, and placing them up for adoption in Russian families. Such actions complicate their search and return, effectively facilitating their abduction.

This was stated by Dar’ya Zarivna, director of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative and advisor to the head of the President's Office, as reported by RBK-Ukraine citing NV.

"Specifically, this case that I mentioned at the UN Headquarters involves the Kherson orphanage. During the temporary occupation, the director of the institution was removed from her position, and a collaborator was appointed in her place. In August 2022, Russian State Duma deputy Yana Lantratova, along with Inna Varlamova - an employee of the State Duma's apparatus and the wife of the chairman of the Fair Russia party, Sergey Mironov, visited the orphanage. They were selecting children for deportation. Like trophies," Zarivna noted.

She also emphasized that ten-month-old Margarita Prokopenko was just 10 months old at that time. Now she is already three years old. The girl was diagnosed with "acute bronchitis" and it was stated that she needed hospitalization in Moscow. Following this, the Moscow Regional Directorate and the Ministry of Social Development of the Russian Federation decided that Margarita was an orphan. Subsequently, she was adopted by Sergey Mironov and his wife.

"At the UN Security Council meeting, I showed a Ukrainian birth certificate stating: Margarita Prokopenko. And then - a Russian certificate in which her name has already been changed, and the place of birth indicated is Podolsk, Moscow region. Everyone was in shock. When you talk not about abstract things or numbers, but demonstrate specific facts and documents, it is perceived quite differently. Margarita had an older brother, Maxim. He was about two years old at that time and was also in the Kherson orphanage. There was also an older sister who was abroad at that time. Maxim was taken along with other children to the Yolochka orphanage in occupied Crimea. There is currently no information about him," she added.

Incidentally, an important event took place the day before the UN Security Council meeting: Yale University released its research, which included 314 examples of illegal relocation, deportation of Ukrainian children, and their subsequent placement in the Russian adoption database. Therefore, this is part of Russia's systematic policy of deportation and erasure of the identity of Ukrainian children.

"It is very important what they prove in this research, that children, predominantly from Donetsk and Luhansk regions, were moved to 21 regions of Russia - all the way to Siberia. State aviation of the Russian Federation was used for this purpose, including planes from Putin's personal air fleet. All these facts have already been submitted for consideration to the International Criminal Court," Zarivna emphasized.