| Russia’s orchestrations at the U.N. Security Council |
| Russia turned a U.N. Security Council meeting yesterday into what a coalition of more than 50 countries said was an upside-down show of misinformation. In a statement, Russia accused the West of abducting Ukrainian children — the very accusation the International Criminal Court has leveled at the Russian government. |
| Russia called for the meeting as it took over the rotating presidency of the Council for April, billing it as an informal forum on the fate of thousands of Ukrainian children. Ukraine and its allies say the children were deported to Russia by force and placed with Russian families for adoption, and the International Criminal Court of Justice has labeled the forced relocations a war crime. |
| The court issued arrest warrants last month for President Vladimir Putin and the head of Russia’s child protection agency, Maria Lvova-Belova, for their roles in relocating the children to Russia. But Russia’s ambassador to the U.N., Vasily Nebenzya, claimed yesterday that they were being forcibly separated from their parents and sent to European countries such as Spain and Portugal and Germany for placement in shelters or with families. |
| Details: Russia’s program included testimony from several officials in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine and videotaped messages from women claiming to be Ukrainian mothers saying they were very pleased to have had their children whisked away to Russia. |
