The Federation Council held a meeting of the commission to investigate “criminal actions of the Kyiv regime against minors”

On Monday, the final meeting of this year’s parliamentary commission to investigate the “criminal actions of the Kyiv regime against minors” was held in the Federation Council (FC). Senators and deputies discussed the structure of the final report, which is scheduled to be published in the summer of 2024, and new facts about Ukrainian atrocities – for example, the recruitment of Russian children through computer games.

The information collected over six months of the commission’s work will be included in the final report, which will consist of nine subsections, said Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council Inna Svyatenko. “Moving children abroad without parental consent; kidnapping for the purpose of illegal adoption and exploitation; sale as donor organs; crimes against sexual integrity; violation of social rights – to health care, education, spiritual, moral and physical development; attack on healthcare and education facilities; abandonment without care and guardianship after the arrest of parents; propaganda at the state level of the ideology of Ukrainian neo-Nazism and Russophobia, glorification of Ukrainian Nazis – minions of Hitler’s Germany among minors; recruitment, involvement of teenagers in reconnaissance, sabotage and destructive activities,” the co-chair of the commission listed the Ukrainian atrocities in one breath.

According to her, violations of 12 international documents aimed at protecting children have already been recorded. “And our initial statement that the Kiev authorities not only condone criminals, but also commit crimes themselves, has been fully confirmed,” Ms. Svyatenko emphasized. She added that, despite hundreds of appeals from Russia to international organizations, there is “virtually no reaction” from the international community, therefore the parliamentary commission, without replacing the investigative bodies, must disseminate information about these crimes even more “promptly, assertively and persistently,” so that these tragedies stop soon.”

Vice Speaker of the State Duma Anna Kuznetsova, in turn, said that over the past month the intensity of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces has increased: in Gorlovka, a 13-year-old boy was killed and 13 children were injured. In general, 130 thousand minors are “forced to hide in basements” and experience neuroses and psychosomatic disorders, the deputy reported. “The intensification of attacks on children is due to the desire to prove their effectiveness to the West in order to receive new funds,” explained the vice speaker. “But, as we see, the United States offered (Ukrainian President Vladimir) instead of money. “Kommersant”) Zelensky has a new strategy for waging war, namely the massive use of terrorist methods.”

In order to “stir up the information field,” Kyiv is spreading “rather naive fakes” about mini-explosives attached to banknotes and smartphones, and organizing sabotage against children on the line of combat contact, Ms. Kuznetsova continued. Moreover, “a whole system of recruiting schoolchildren to commit crimes” has been created, she said: “This work is supervised by a closed division of the SBU – the Center for Information and Psychological Operations, with branches in the Kyiv, Vinnitsa and Kharkov regions. Militants use social networks to correspond with schoolchildren and incline them to destructive actions. Many channels and closed chats in the Russian-language segment that promote terrorism, extremism and suicide are moderated from the territory of Ukraine by SBU agents.”

Recruited children can act as spotters or supervise such groups themselves; they “offer money to schoolchildren, ingratiate themselves, manipulate”, promising after completing the “task” some kind of “bonus” – up to the release of a loved one from captivity, Anna Kuznetsova delved into the details : “On the territory of Ukraine, the SBU recruits children with the help of school administrations, and this tactic is extremely scary.” According to her, the Kiev regime has become a “catalyst for child crime” not only on its own territory, but also in European countries, as well as in Russia.

The co-chair of the commission also spoke about Kyiv’s attempts to influence children through online computer games and “to form a teenage pro-Ukrainian gaming environment in Russia.” Referring to analysts of the CyberMoscow project, the vice speaker said that since 2017, the SBU began active work in the “video game industry”, opening “many unofficial servers” in Western Ukraine. “Such games contain Russophobic videos, children develop a negative image of our country, an aggressive image of a Russian person,” the deputy complained, adding that donations often go to finance the enemy: “On one of the sites there is information about the transfer of $1.5 million to the Ukrainian Armed Forces ” Summarizing, Anna Kuznetsova proposed that the Ministry of Education strengthen measures to protect schoolchildren from involvement in destructive activities, and Roskomnadzor and Rospotrebnadzor – to eliminate the threats posed by video games.

Finally, Ms. Kuznetsova could not ignore the fact that the Ukrainian government “covers up drug cartels.” “We know how the Kiev regime created conditions for black transplantation and child trafficking. Now we see how the process of legislative support for the drug industry is unfolding,” she said, recalling that the bill on the legalization of marijuana has already passed the first reading in the Ukrainian parliament. Legal drug trafficking, in turn, will threaten not only Russia, but also Europe, the vice-speaker explained: “We are recording attempts by the SBU to distribute drugs among minor Russian citizens. According to the FSB, this is being done by the Khimprom organized crime group, which includes more than 1 thousand criminals, and the leader is hiding abroad.”

After the co-chairs, the meeting was followed by the head of the Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko, who spoke about children affected by the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in new territories, Deputy Minister of Justice Andrei Loginov, who spoke about the criteria for international responsibility that the Ukrainian side should bear, and the head of the Federation Council commission for the protection of sovereignty Andrei Klimov, who proposed distribute the final report among foreign ambassadors to the Russian Federation. And in conclusion, military correspondent Alexander Sladkov spoke to parliamentarians on the Aerospace Forces. He thanked the commission members for their work, explaining that “here on earth” he feels close attention to the problems of children from the relevant departments.

Andrey Prah