Who is the woman who should be in the dock next to Putin?

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Thousands of Ukrainian children allegedly abducted by Russian soldiers. The alleged client: Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin (70). The alleged executor: Maria Lwova-Belowa (39) is the Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague therefore intervened last Friday and issued an arrest warrant against the Russian president. An arrest warrant has also been issued for the Russian “Commissioner for the Rights of the Child”, as Lvova-Belowa is officially known.

The reason for the focus on the children: Kidnapping of civilians is prohibited under international law, and the detectives in The Hague have also obtained some evidence of Putin’s personal responsibility in this area.

However, Maria Lwowa-Belowa is said to be operationally responsible for the crime. In peacetime in Russia she takes care of underprivileged and handicapped children and orphans. Since the beginning of the war, she has also been responsible for “mediating” children from Ukraine to Russia.

Russia does not deny this fact at all – on the contrary. During a televised, staged meeting with Vladimir Putin in February this year, Putin asked Lvova-Belova if it was true that she herself had adopted a child from Mariupol, and Lvova-Belova replied “yes” and said she now knew what it means to be a mother of a child from the Donbass.

Arrest warrant doesn’t seem to bother her

However, the Ukrainians and Western observers see these ‘mediations’ more as kidnappings. Reports about this have been circulating for quite some time. The Ukrainian government even speaks of 16,000 children who would have disappeared in this way. Once in Russia, they were then subjected to pro-Russian re-education.

Lwowa-Belowa doesn’t care about the warrant. She even pokes fun at him: “It’s great that the international community is recognizing the work we do to help our country’s children. That we don’t leave them in war zones, that we take them out, that we create good conditions for them, that we surround them with loving, caring people,” Lvowa-Belowa replied, according to “Spiegel”. there are sanctions against her and now there is an arrest warrant, says the 38-year-old “We keep working”, is her motto.

“Do you want to continue serving a war criminal?”

Still, the arrest warrant from the West could make a difference. State officials and politicians, who only support the war for opportunistic reasons, are likely to be particularly alarmed. After all, none of them want to sit next to Putin in the dock in The Hague.

Opposition politician and former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov (43) agrees. Gudkov, who now lives in exile, described the arrest warrants as a “wake-up call to Putin’s elite, governors, senators and ministers” in a Facebook post. “Do you want to continue serving a war criminal? Then you are the next to be sought.” (ceded)

Source: Blick