O UK said on Thursday (16) that it had sanctioned the Russian Commissioner for the Rights of the Child, Maria Lvova-Belova, for the “forced transfer and adoption of Ukrainian children”, as part of a new wave of sanctions against the Russia due to the Ukrainian crisis.
“We target the facilitators and perpetrators of the war of [presidente russo Vladimir] Putin who has brought untold suffering to Ukraine, including the forced transfer and adoption of children,” UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement.
the ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of pursuing a “criminal policy of deporting our people” to mainly remote areas of Russia.
During a speech on June 1, Zelensky said that more than 200,000 children have been deported so far.
The UK said the latest round of sanctions also included the patriarch Cyril I head of the Russian Orthodox Church, due to his support and endorsement of the war in Ukraine.
In recent weeks, he has been one of the biggest public voices in support of Russia’s “military campaign” in Ukraine, urging all believers to unite in combating Moscow’s “external and internal enemies”.
In February, with the war already underway, he told the faithful that a struggle was underway against the “forces of evil”, which oppose the “historical unity” between Russia and Ukraine.
Source: CNN Brasil
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