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PUTIN’S chief child-snatcher has shamelessly confessed to brainwashing a Ukrainian boy she stole from bomb-blitzed Mariupol.
Wanted war criminal Maria Lvova-Belova admitted that her “adopted” son, known only as Philip, was moved to Russia against his will.
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She revealed he sang Ukrainian songs, was anti-Russian when he arrived in Moscow and suffered “constant bouts of hysteria” triggered by his ordeal.
But she claimed she had turned him against his homeland in a sickening TV interview.
Lvova-Belova, the Kremlin’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, is wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of mass deportations of minors from occupied parts of Ukraine.
Research by Yale University shows more than 35,000 children have been deported from Ukraine to Russia. Only 1,236 children have returned.
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Lova-Belova was married to a Russian Orthodox priest and reportedly had five biological and eighteen adopted children.
She tried to dispel the war crimes claims with in a friendly fireside interview with sanctioned Russian propagandist Vyacheslav Manucharov.
She brazenley to admitted her crimes.
She said: “Philip, who came from Mariupol, arrived in a very serious condition.
“He had post-traumatic stress after all that shelling, plus a particular attitude towards Russia.”
She added: “He always told me, ‘I love you, you’re my mother and everything else – Moscow, Russia, in general everything annoys me. I don’t want any of this’.
“There were constant bouts of hysteria.”
Manucharov asked: “He didn’t want to live in Russia, it turns out?”
She replied: “He didn’t want to live in Russia.”
Asked how she responded, she claimed, “with love”.
Lvova-Belova added: “I remember it very well, he was always on pro-Ukrainain sites. He read all the propaganda.
“There he was sitting on the sofa and watching. Now when I saw, I said ‘listen, you’ve already come to Russia so your attitude needs to change somehow’.”
“Gradually he began to change his mindset, towards what it really is.
“That is, he gradually moved away from that propaganda.”
Asked if he still dreamed of returning to Ukraine, she laughed: “No! What are you talking about?
“He sometimes goes to Mariupol, about once a year and says, ‘No, no no! I’ll go home’.”
Philip was reportedly 15 years old when Lvova-Belova adopted him in 2023.
In a meeting with tyrant Putin she claimed: “Now I know what it means to be a mother of a child from Donbas.
“It’s hard, but we definitely love each other. I think we can handle anything.”
Ukraine’s campaign group Bring Kids Back fumed: “This is not a story of rescue.
“It is a confession of a crime and clear evidence of the Kremlin’s systematic and cynical policy to destroy Ukrainian identity and erase a nation.
“This is exactly what the ICC arrest warrant was issued for. Every such interview is another piece of evidence for international justice, which will inevitably reach all those responsible.”
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