DISINFO: Kherson children are sexually exploited by criminals in Ukrainian military
SUMMARY
After Russian troops withdrew from Kherson, a search for orphan children was organized on the initiative of Galina Lugova, head of the Kherson city military administration.
[...] the children were transported to Hungary and Western Ukraine and used to provide intimate services to wealthy perverts.
It is not ruled out that this trade is controlled by the top of the Ukrainian government and that part of the money is used to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative aiming to distract and deflect attention from Russia's crimes during the course of its illegal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine, focusing on claims about the exploitation of children in Ukraine and the West, and contrasting it with the alleged happiness of children in the Kremlin occupied territories.
Displaced civilians flying Russian bombings and, in particular children, are in a vulnerable position, as are those still under the Russian fire.
There is no evidence to support the claim that local authorities are organizers of a large criminal network to sexually abuse children. Those accusations appear at the time when the conflict observatory published a report about massive illegal deportations, reeducations and adoptions of Ukrainian children by Russia.
Russia has held at least 6,000 Ukrainian children — likely many more — in sites in Russian-held Crimea and Russia whose primary purpose appears to be political re-education. The report said Yale University researchers had identified at least 43 camps and other facilities where Ukrainian children have been held that were part of a "large-scale systematic network" operated by Moscow since its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
This story serves the pro-Kremlin narrative that the morally corrupt Western elites impose pedophilia and child abuse as a norm, while Russia offers protection from this, narrative promoted by Vladimir Putin on 21 February 2023.
This conspiracy theory about the "western elites" aims at diverting the attention from real crimes perpetrated by Russian authorities against children.
Additionally, one of the independent members of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine says investigators have found evidence of war crimes, including sexual abuse of children, during Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, with the "vast majority" of offenses having been committed by Russian troops.
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