70-Year-Old Associate of Putin Adopted a One-Year-Old Ukrainian Girl Who Was Abducted
One of Putin's closest associates, Sergei Mironov, adopted and changed the name of a child who was illegally taken from a children's home in the city of Kherson, Ukraine.
This information is reported by BBC Panorama, citing documents obtained by the media.
Sergei Mironov, the leader of Just Russia Party, is directly mentioned in the adoption protocol of a one-year-old girl, who was unlawfully taken out of Ukraine in 2022 by Mironov's wife, Irina Varlamova.
The girl's real name is Margarita Prokopenko. She was one of 48 children illegally taken from a children's home in Kherson, which was occupied by Russian forces at that time.
At the beginning of the occupation, ten-month-old Margarita was undergoing treatment in a children's hospital.
According to the head of the pediatric department, Natalia Lyutikova, one day a 'woman in a lilac dress' entered the hospital and introduced herself as the 'head of children's affairs from Moscow.'
Later, Tetiana Zavalska, appointed by the Russian occupying forces as the 'acting director of the children's home,' called the department head. Zavalska demanded expediting the discharge of the girl from the hospital.
Margarita was discharged, and the next morning, the staff of the children's home was asked to prepare the child for the journey.
The nurse from the children's home, Lyubov Saiko, noted that a group of Russians in 'camouflage' took the girl from the children's home.
BBC managed to identify the 'woman in the lilac dress' as Inna Varlamova, a collaborator of the Russian parliament and the wife of the political figure, Putin's associate, Sergei Mironov.
Later, thanks to anonymous sources, journalists obtained a document confirming that Sergei Mironov and Inna Varlamova legally adopted Margarita Prokopenko in December 2022, and the girl's name was changed to Marina Sergeevna Mironova.
Currently, according to official Ukrainian authorities, with the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia illegally deported more than 20,000 Ukrainian children, indicating signs of genocide.
It is worth noting that it was previously revealed that the Belarusian and Russian presidents, Lukashenko and Putin, personally supervised the deportation of Ukrainian children. In particular, 2,442 Ukrainian children were illegally taken to Belarus.