The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has documented the crimes of Russian State Duma deputy Yana Lantratova and her accomplice Inna Varlamova, wife of the head of the faction in the Federal Assembly of Russia, Sergei Mironov. It is known that during the occupation of Kherson, the Russians abducted two Ukrainian children from a local orphanage.
According to the investigation, during the occupation of Kherson, the suspects forcibly took two underage children from a local orphanage to Russia.
The agency added that it was a newborn girl and a two-year-old boy. In order to "examine" the children before deportation, Lantratova and Varlamova arrived at the regional centre under the guise of an "official visit" by representatives of the Russian Federation.
Then they visited the city orphanage, from which they took the two children to Moscow, allegedly for rehabilitation in Russian medical facilities.
The investigation found that the deported children had no physical disabilities and did not require medical intervention.
After the de-occupation of Kherson, law enforcement officers searched the orphanage and found fake documents on the deportation of minors to Russia signed by Lantratova and Varlamova.
Based on the evidence collected, investigators notified both defendants of suspicion of "violation of the laws and customs of war, forced individual or mass relocation, or deportation of protected persons from the occupied territory to the territory of the occupying power, committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons".
Since the suspects are in Russia, measures are being taken to bring them to justice.