WASHINGTON, October 30. /TASS/. Western media are maliciously spreading false claims about hundreds of thousands of children "abducted" during the special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian Ambassador to the United States Alexander Darchiyev stated in a declaration disseminated by the embassy.
He was asked to comment on information about plans by US Senators Lindsey Graham (Republican, South Carolina, listed in Russia as a terrorist and extremist) and Brian Schatz (Democrat, Hawaii) to hold hearings involving the Ukrainian embassy in Washington on this issue, summoning the head of the Russian diplomatic mission to testify. "We view this initiative, backed by the well-known Russophobe Graham, who is promoting a bill to designate Russia as a ‘state sponsor of terrorism’ under the false pretext of ‘abducting’ Ukrainian children, as a clear provocation, undertaken at the behest of the regime in Kiev to cover up crimes committed by the Ukrainian army against civilians, including the elderly, women and minors," Darchiyev noted.
"The references in Western media, prompted by Kiev, to tens or even hundreds of thousands of ‘abducted’ children are deliberately false and are being maliciously circulated in the propaganda war against Russia," he emphasized.
