Daily Times

A leading Russian political supporter of President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denied a report that he adopted a child forcibly taken from a Ukrainian orphanage. Citing Russian and Ukrainian documents, the BBC reported that Russian lawmaker Sergei Mironov had adopted a child, now two years old, who was taken from an orphanage in the Ukrainian city of Kherson last year. According to the BBC, Mironov was “named on the adoption record of a two-year-old girl who was taken in 2022 by a woman he is now married to.” Mironov called the investigation a “hysteric fake unleashed by Ukrainian special services and their Western curators.” He said it was an “information attack” designed to “discredit” him. Mironov, 70, leads a pro-Kremlin opposition party in Russia’s parliament. He previously spent a decade as head of the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament — a key post marshalling the Kremlin’s legislative agenda. He is a staunch supporter of the military campaign against Ukraine, and has been awarded honours by Putin. In his response, Mironov said Russia would achieve “complete victory” against Ukraine.