Russian politician denies adopting Ukrainian infant

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 25, 2023 12:03 am

Moscow, Russia: 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.

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