Un caso esposto, innumerevoli rimangono nascosti

Russian authorities have arrested Irina Rudnitskaya, an activist described as an ally of Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova. Rudnitskaya had 12 children under her care, including Ukrainian children who were forcibly deported from Mariupol in the Donetsk region. The court ordered her held on charges of trafficking two or more children. Two other people have also been arrested in connection with the case.

No surprise…all russian “family” traditiins are in this fact – they steal and trade children. All they can.

Here are a [few more upstanding ordinary Russians who’ve gotten into the action as child-traffickers](https://worldcrunch.com/focus/russia-ukraine-war/russia-kidnapped-ukrainian-orphans/).

It’s not just a couple of Putin’s friends in the highest castes like Lvоvа-Bеlоvа who are doing it.

>In the fall of 2022, three children taken from Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast were placed with Yulia Panina, an employee of the Roskomnadzor 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.

Olga Druzhinina is especially vile. She’s a ~~celebrity~~ freak living in far northwestern Siberia (Yamalo-Nenets Okrug) who was recently interviewed by the local TV station about her ~~devotion to~~ obsession over kids by adopting so many in addition to birthing her own.

That interview is on YouTube and you can find it by typing “Olga Druzhinina Yamal” in Google. For some reason this sub blocks all posts with URLs to YouTube even when the links are tacitly pro-Ukrainian in showing how depraved and deranged the Russians are.

Seeing her cackling gob in that news clip after learning about her involvement as the “foster mother” of Arthur Zaitsev would make you want to punch in the screen.