“All the children who are now on Russian territory, everyone is known, nobody hides their names, nobody hides the coordinates of their whereabouts. And if these children have parents or direct relatives, they have every right to take them away from them, which is already happening. Several dozen children returned with their relatives when they showed up,” the foreign minister said.
Lavrov stressed that the minors ended up in Russia because they are in orphanages and have no close relatives.
“We really evacuated the orphanages together with the staff, together with the educators from the combat zone, we don’t hide it. And there’s probably nothing our Western colleagues can invent that we’ve made clear,” he said.
He also called on Europeans to pay attention to the situation of Ukrainian children in Europe: “We have received many appeals from Ukrainian citizens who went to Europe as refugees for the guardianship authorities to forcibly take away their children. Kiev is dealing with a racist, a Nazi.” Tone,” argued the minister.
On the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Head of State’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, the Anglo-Saxons said the agency’s prosecutors forced them to make such an announcement.
“They forced this prosecutor, an ethnic Pakistani, as I understand it, but with a British passport, to bypass all procedures and all rules and carry out with unprecedented speed this order against the Russian President, against the Commissioner for Rights.” of the child, Maria Lvova-Belova”,
He recalled that the immunity of heads of state is guaranteed by international law and relevant conventions.
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