“Ho accolto nella mia famiglia un ragazzo di Mariupol. Non voleva vivere in Russia, amava l’Ucraina. Ma col tempo, la sua coscienza è cambiata perché l’ho rieducato.” – Maria Lvova-Belova, ricercata dalla Corte penale internazionale per la deportazione di 19.456 bambini ucraini.

How common is this problem in Ukraine? Everyone has encountered it, if not personally, then through friends or relatives.

The person who made all the thumbnails for Bald Max channel is from Kherson. His name is Tim. He was just 16-17 when the city was occupied.

He was almost taken and deported to Russia — just like thousands of other Ukrainian children. But his teacher warned him in time to hide and destroyed all the school records so that, when Russian soldiers came, they couldn’t find any information about the kids.

Tim eventually managed to leave and now lives safely in Germany.

I wish people like her lived abroad.

The brutal truth is that she’s only the most high-profile of the Russian ~~foster parents~~ child-traffickers out there.

Only when outsiders admit to or realize [how many lower-caste Russians are doing in their own way](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War#Russian_policies) what a silovik like Lvоvа-Belova has been doing, could there be a meaningful shift in outsiders’ understanding about the heinous role and responsibility of ordinary Russians in this dimension of [their centuries-old extermination campaign against the Ukrainians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification_of_Ukraine#Peter_I).

Who is “caring for” abducted Ukrainian kids in the [khruschevkas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchevka) and [brezhnevkas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnevka) of the teeming ѕhіthоІеѕ that pass for towns and cities from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka?

Who is the “teacher” or “camp counselor” for these kids in “schools” or “summer camps” respectively scattered from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka?

I’ll drop a hint: It’s **none** of Putin or Lvоvа-Belova.

Here’s but one [tiny sample](https://worldcrunch.com/focus/russia-ukraine-war/russia-kidnapped-ukrainian-orphans/) of how oh-so-victimized lower-caste Russians channel Lvоvа-Belova.

>In the fall of 2022, three children taken from Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast were placed with Yulia Panina,  an employee of the Roskomandzor agency in the Russian city of Astrakhan that’s responsible for controlling mass media. Panina organizes care packages for  Russian soldiers at the front and tells the children about her work in the agency:  “The kids already know the basics. For example, that we don’t just blindly block things— we first respond, analyze, and start a dialogue. Working at Roskomnadzor is truly interesting and honorable.” 

>Among these “interesting and honorable” duties are making sure that Putin is not called a crab, a moth or a corrupt leader on the Internet, cleaning up compromising information about specific officials and organizing campaigns against people the authorities  don’t want—but none of this is shared with the Ukrainian children in her care. 

>Meanwhile, Arthur Zaitsev from Donetsk Oblast was sent to Yamal, where he was taken in by a local activist and foster mother of many children, Olga Druzhinina. “He has a home now and has settled in well at college,” she said about Zaitsev. But in December 2024, just before his 20th birthday, Arthur was drafted into the Russian army. 

>For some children, their stories only come to light when it’s already too late. One such case is that of Sasha Yakushchenko, a teenager taken from Ukraine’s Kherson region and placed with a foster family in Russia’s Krasnodar region. He was placed in a foster family in the Krasnodar region and committed suicide a few months later. The Russian  authorities never reacted to his death, neither publicly nor when asked by our editorial  board. “In accordance with the law on personal data, we cannot provide a response,” the  local guardianship office said. 

>Another child taken to Russia was Ilya Vashchenko, who traveled with the same girl later adopted by MP Mironov and his fifth wife. Once in Moscow, the high-ranking couple did not want to adopt Ilya due to his health condition. Two and a half years after he was taken, Ilya’s fate remains unknown.

N.B. In the middle of the excerpt, it’s stated that Arthur Zaitsev of Donetsk Oblast was taken to Yamal. For those who don’t know, it refers to [Yamalo-Nenets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamalo-Nenets_Autonomous_Okrug) which is a vast region in northwestern Siberia crossed by the Arctic Circle. Worse is that his “foster mother” **Olga Druzhnina** is a local ~~celebrity~~ freak known for her ~~eagerness~~ obsession over birthing and taking in kids.

Google her name with “Yamal” next to it, and you’ll find an report on YouTube from last month made by the local news channel (Новости Ямала – ‘Novosti Yamala’) and that’s partially translated to English. For some reason, this sub blocks posts with YouTube links.

Knowing her role in trafficking Arthur, you’ll probably want to punch the screen which shows her ugly laughing gob.

I remember watching a video of Lvova-Belova where she talks about the Ukrainian boy she “adopted.” I am convinced this woman is the devil in human form.