Russian Children's Rights Advocate Accused of War Crimes to Brief UN Security Council

Russia's commissioner for children's rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, has rejected International Criminal Court (ICC) allegations that she was responsible for unlawfully deporting children from Ukraine as false. The ICC had issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and Lvova-Belova for the war crime of unlawfully deporting children from areas of Ukraine occupied by Russian forces. Lvova-Belova said her commission acted on humanitarian grounds to protect the interests of children in an area where military action was taking place and had not moved anyone against their will or that of their parents or legal guardians.