The Russian Woman Accused of 'Stealing' Ukrainian Children | Exclusive Interview 

So let me get this straight, she adopted a child from Mariupol, after they killed his parents? Such generosity...

She is a monster with a sweet smile. They themselves destroyed the cities and kill the parents of these children, and then she says that she saves them?

think about some ukrainian mother or family watching this interview and seeing the person who abducted their child on T.V, not in handcuffs, not in a jail cell. someone stole your little sister or little brother, and you’re watching the person you know did it on TV denying everything. you’d want to destroy this woman.

It's so creepy when she says that her heart told her that it's 'her child'. I think that she looks at all of these children and thinks that they 'belong to her' and to Russia and not to their Ukrainian parents that are now either killed by them or homeless in a refugee center somewhere. This is unbelievable evil... This is just horrible

>Smiling when getting accused of horrible things. >Blaming the other country of doing the thing they did. Ive seen enough.

This is absolutely gross. I can't finish this. I hope the Ukrainian child she adopted learns she backed the killing of his parents. And can get away from crazy!

I can't fathom how you managed to not punch her face. Must've taken every last drop of your professionalism.

I'm just shocked by this woman. I'm from Ukraine. My friend lived in Mariupol. When the Russians occupied the city, people who tried to escape from the city themselves were simply shot. Ukraine tried to make humanitarian corridors, only Russia constantly opened fire on those who tried to carry it out and on those who wanted to escape.

This lady has the GALL to say Ukraine didn't save these children. She forgets to add that they wouldn't need saving if russia didn't attack at all

9:10 You literally featured the children at a political rally in a huge stadium. What a cold dead liar she is.

Mariupol was surrounded and controlled by Russians from day one of the invasion. Civilians trying to get through were shot. Tens of thousands of civilians were killed 90% of city buildings were ruined. It's ridiculous she's blaming Ukrainians for not being able to evacuate their own children. See you in Hague Lvova Belova.

She says children are not used for political purposes but they also have children thanking "Uncle Yuri" in front of thousands of Russians on state tv

im amazed she can say "we don't use children for political purposes" while keeping a straight face. They literally just talked about how she "adopted" a 16 year old and how children were "thanking soldiers". This woman is pure evil. Saying a massive conflict like this was motived by "compassion and love" is so backwards.

“I am not a war criminal, I am a mother!” Woman, how many mothers have been gassing children in concentration camps before going back to their own children, just to give one example? Motherhood does not make you pure and innocent, it just means you are responsible for another human being- and even then you can still do a shitty job, or steal someone else’s child and call it your own!

Боже, сколько лжи, сколько холодного лицемирия😥 Сложно было досмотреть это интервью, меня охватывает ужас от мысли, что судьба моих детей могла быть в руках этой женщины. Мы с мужем дважды успели эвакуировать своих детей из под надвигающейся российской "заботы", в 2014 из Донецка, в 2022 из Запорожья. Но не успела маму из Мариуполя, теперь она там фактичкски в заложниках. Мы уже 9 лет скитаемся в своей собственной стране, как только мы где-нибудь наладим жизнь, туда приходит россия, и всё разрушает. Это дикость и варварство. Мои дети сейчас, как и многие другие лишены детства, возможности жить дома, общаться с друзями, ходить в школу, видеть родных с оккупированных регионов, мы прячемся от смерти, и прячемся от жизни 😔

A mother cant be a war criminal?

You can literally see the evil in her grin

a cold, cruel woman, she does not think that kidnapping children and forcibly turning them into Russians is a war crime. It's creepy to look at the eyes of such a person

Какой ужас! У меня мурашки по коже от этого интервью. Я как будто интервью с маньяком посмотрела. Только его не поймали, а отпустили дальше делать свои дела. Раньше я думала: «Как эта миловидная женщина не понимает что творит?». А сейчас я думаю, что она прекрасно понимает, что делает. И на это смотреть жутко. Улыбается, в те моменты, когда это неуместно. Как социопат какой-то. Прикрывается своими детьми и чужими. Жуть! И уже совсем не кажется миловидной. Волк в овечьей шкуре. Я очень надеюсь, что она окажется в Гааге и понесёт наказание за все зло, которое сделала.

Hope she realize every single word of this interview would be used in court against her

When she said "I don't understand" and did that little smile she understood the question very well.

"I'm not Pro-Russian. I'm Russian in its purest form." (how to say you're a fascist without saying you're a fascist)

“There were no humanitarian corridors [in Mariupol]” Who’s fault is that? How is Ukraine supposed to create humanitarian corridors when Russia had the city entirely surrounded since the first month of the invasion? This is literally schoolyard bully “why are you hitting yourself” logic. It’s like if the US hadn’t gave any warning about dropping nukes on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, then blamed Japan for not evacuating quick enough. The blood is on your hands, Russia, the least you can do is take responsibility.

This children will turn against them someday

As a russian, understanding her words in native language gives me chills. I look at her and I can’t understand if she really believes that she is doing right thing or is lying so heartlessly. True monster

The way she speaks about the "brotherly people" and the "common culture" between Russia and Ukraine gave me chills.

Pure evil. Hope the innocent children and all people are rescued and returned to where they belong.

Lebensborn is what the nazis did in Poland, Norway, and elsewhere, this is no different.

This was such a good interview, so chilling, you could feel the tension between the two women. Incredibly well done to the interviewer, she was asking some very hard questions. You could see the Russian woman's thoughts spinning on how she can turn the answers around in her favour. What a shrewd, manipulative and dangerous person. 100% a war criminal.

Anyone who tells you that the reason they are bombing you & kidnapping your children is because of compassion & love, is insane as hell. #SlavaUkraine✨💛💙✨

i don’t buy being “instantly drawn to a 16 year old boy” who you want to adopt. she doesn’t want to adopt a 5 year old because a 5 year old can’t give speeches about being saved on TV. it’s so fake it’s unreal

As a Russian speaker I can not miss the fact that in 10:38 she clearly says "our goal is to separate our fraternal bounds with Ukraine" but vice translated it as "keep the bounds".🤨 anyway I have been waiting for one simple question: "if Russia hasn't started the war would there be any reason to rescue the children?"

"Мы не используем детей в политике", но погнать их на сцену говорить слова благодарности - это да, это обязательно.

The only thing that threatened the kids' lives and safety was the russian shells raining down on their towns.

How is this woman still alive. What a witch of a human

They say "no humanitarian corridors" existed out of Mariupol. There was many, and mainly children and women were bussed out of the city, but the evacuation, even during the time the city was surrounded and under siege, had to be stopped several times due to russian shelling being too close and sometimes even in the path of the evacuation route. as someone who was born and raised in Mariupol, I find her words disgusting. I want my home and my city back.

Thanks Vice for putting straight facts into her face. It is easy to see how uncomfortable she is comparing to state propaganda TV. It is funny how she says "There were no humanitarian corridors [in Mariupol]". I wonder how Ukraine can provide corridor to the city sieged by russian army. Isn't it then their responsibility to offer such corridor to safely evacuate children to safe place in their motherland? Of course, it is easier deport them to russia and use children for personal leverage. I am also amazed how she dares to say "We were saving children" and at the same time on April 28 russia launched missile strike on building block in Uman killing 6 children according to the latest data.

I think this piece would benefit from more fact checking. Even if to a Western audience it should be clear that the interviewed is a psychopath, war criminal, and lier, and the journalist clearly knows this, some of her lies can get thorough when they are published without an additional in-depth explanation. It is dangerously easy to take her plea for listening to ‘both sides’ too seriously, because to someone who does not understand the topic it may sound reasonable. But in this case one side is committing genocide and the other is trying to defend itself. That’s not time to listen to both sides. Anyway I hope to see her in the Hague when Ukraine wins the war. Slava Ukraini!

Feel kind a proud that Russians in both English and Russian say that she’s insane…cuz she is! Recently helped translate an article about Fillip(the adopted boy)…poor boy is not doing great! Ukraine, we are with you!

- Ви військова злочинниця? - ДАЯЖЕМАТЬ! 😂😂😂

6:24 she said there were no corridors evacuating children. During the first weeks of the war, Russians allowed corridors for civilians, but every time they were used by families, Russia bombed them. Several agreements were made, russians would agree "yes we will ceasefire so that civilians can leave"... and then fired on those corridors in the middle of the time agreed, when it was full of fleeing civilians. This happened several times, whatever Russia did it on purpose, or lack of order in units, doesn't matter: People became too scared to try to leave anymore, and then got bombed in their homes.

People like this deserve the worst type of punishment. To call yourself a mother and still continue to take kids from other mothers legit makes no sense. No empathy barely human

So I definitely mainly disagree with miss Blonde here, but good points I agree with her were: 1.u shouldnt be leaving as sign of protest, as she stated, u should hear all sides of the story. 2. there were several tries to do human corridors and even then ton of people stayed there who wanted to leave and Ukraine army used these civilians as shields, so obviously they didnt wanted them to leave. 3. erasing citizenship/nationality - this was mainly done by Ukraine even before 2014 when Ukraine prohibited using russian language, flag, etc. which then Russia used as a "good" point to invade and annex Crymea too in 2014. I am pretty sure both sides done many wrong acts, which shouldnt have been done, looking at it just from 1 side tho, shows lack of critical thinking and following everything what 1 side says without checking enough possible sources. Vice here was only representing Ukraine side.

Her facial expressions says different..she’s a monster. They way she looked aside when asked a question caused me to become infuriated. And what does being a mother herself have to do with her taking kids from any chance of reuniting them with family or trusted friends? She’s the bait, that what. 🤬

So scary to hear her say "we share common heritage with Ukraine". "And we are like brothers". If this is what Russians do to their brothers imagine what they do to their enemies?

"Saving children" from your own bombs in a war that you started - the mental gymnastics these people go through are off the chart.

Thank you for capturing video of this woman for the future war crimes tribunal.

Isobel Yeung is great at interviewing the absolute worst people, and never holds back with her questions. Like she said at the beginning, it's amazing they even went ahead with this interview.

Я русский, но не могу поверить в то, что она говорит! В моей голове не укладывается, как ты можешь говорить, что ты спасаешь детей , если твоя армия их убивает! Как ты можешь говорить о том, что Украина не эвакуировала детей, когда твоя армия полностью окружила город. Я мама и этим все сказано, ты не мама ты маньячка.

Saying that they are taking them on “vacations” and then after used them for political purposes and gives them Russian passports, evil in its purest forms. I can only hope that their parents will be able to bring them retrieve them from “re-education” style camps.

Как Львовой-Беловой приходится напрягаться и защищаться и проявлять агрессию на прямые вопросы журналистки о том, что она "спасает" детей из разрушенных российской армией городов, в том числе Мариуполя.. Интересно, она понимает и боится последствий, связанных с судом в Гааге? Или по малоумию вообще не понимает? Мне кажется, боится и все понимает.

That smile on her face throughout the interview is haunting and pure evil.

In this short video clip where the girl is thanking for saving her and other children at the very end you can hear her say - я чуть чуть-чуть подзабыла, which means I forgot what to say Which means they told her what to say , but because of the stage fright she just got confused with what to say next

I dunno how you can keep your composure when they lie so blatantly in front of your face. It's infuriating

Great work Isobel as usual! Would live to see your thoughts on the interview and a behind the scenes of how it all came to be!

It's always interesting when a narcissist tries to turn back the claims that are made against them on to the other person. Notice how when the Ukrainian children were thanking the Russian soldiers for help on national TV it is not using children for propaganda. But when Ukrainian children express their negative experiences in Russia it's Ukraine using children as "political tools." And all the claims are absurd 9:00

Before the war I loved the phrase "the truth is somewhere in the middle" and you should listen to both sides. Then I found out about Russias "Firehose of falsehoods"

watching her cold smiles while listening to her questions gave me chills

I am having flashbacks of the stolen native americans children during colonization and the blond, blue-eyed ones from Poland during Nazism

You can tell she trained for this interview

The fact that Russia does not recognize jurisdiction of the ICC is not really a defense against being a war criminal. This woman is pathetic.

Congrats on the interview. Very exclusive. To sit one on one with a female war criminal and a mastermind behind genocide. The chills run through my spine.

Pure evil.

She said shes a mother that tells you nothing the way she laughed before she said anything at all tells you everything.

Evil.

Lock her up

Ive never seen a journalist asked straight questions like this. I love your channel

The LOOKS between these two Women is EVERYTHING…

You can see the evil in her eyes. Chilling

She's like the real world version of Thanos. Goes around destroying people's worlds, then every now & again will adopt a few children she's orphaned who she can brainwash and one day fight with her.

Nothing worse in this world than when russians decide they need to save and liberate someone.

The lady VICE reporter is deserving the highest praise in confronting the threats Russians pose under the slightest provocation. Thank you. Tom.

I’m Russian, was born in the most liberal and western-orientated city (St. Petersburg) and I DO NOT and WILL NEVER accept that the abduction of children from the city, which is occupied and was heavily bombed by Russia for example, long-suffered Mariupol (a form of genocide) as a norm. Russia and Maria Lvova-Belova in particular have kidnapped children and forcibly sent them to Russia. Also note her straight face, when she was excusing herself, she was saying about her crimes without any remorse. That is just sickening! She SHOULD be sent to Hague and sentenced there for life! Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! Putin- HUILO!

You can see in her face she has no qualms with telling these lies to everyone.

Wow just her first few words and you already know. Evil with bad acting.

Isobel should be given proper recognition for this undertaking. Getting to Moscow and fixing this interview must have been tough enough, asking questions about genocide straight into her face - is on a completely different level. Admire this kind of journalism!

Stealing should not be in quotes. They are literally stealing them 🤬

Ощущение фальши возникает с первых минут, когда она рассмеялась, а затем стала жестко говорить. Нет желание услышать собеседника, разобраться в точек зрения и сделать совместные выводы

Hope karma catches up with her soon.

For those unaware of the details of the Russian strongholds prior to the 2022 invasion, about a week after Russia “annexed” Crimea, the same Russian militants responsible for Crimea began showing up in Donetsk. About a month later, they stormed and took control of the police stations and government buildings. Over the next year, they brought in Russian reinforcements, and turned parts of the region into a conflict zone, forcing around half (~3 million) of the Ukrainian residents to relocate to other Ukrainian regions. The idea that LPR/DPR are independent regions, and that the Russian stronghold in Donetsk stretched unimpeded to Mariupol and beyond, is pure BS. Throughout history, Russian leaders have tried to stifle Ukrainian language and culture through policy many times, this being no different. Even before the war, Russia had a major population and demographic problem, and it’s highly likely that their children plan was in place before the war for this, and other manipulations. It would have been so easy to invite UN teams, NGO’s, or an unbiased 3rd-party country to come in and serve this function….even now (Bakhmut’s mention means that children are still being deported). Don’t be fooled by the well-coordinated and prepared lady in white, in an all-white Russian studio, as she spews disinformation.

It's actually insane that she can outright lie so effortlessly. Truly, these people are evil.

I can not wait to see her trial at The Hague.

In bkack and white you would think you were talking to a woman commandant for the kinder wing at Auschwitz.

Respect to Vice News for getting this interview done in a short and objective manner. This woman ticks all the boxes of a psychopath, yet immensely composed and at times cocky, as if on a never ending power trip. Pure evil served cold.

I don't often comment on RU-vid, but I hope that this war criminal eventually faces justice at an international tribunal. She and her accomplices.

Note how the reporter's eye flutter when Maria says "of course everyone happily agreed to a free vacation" at 8:14 - a sign of extreme disbelief in what she just heard

This is what a monster looks like. Smiling in an expensive dress.

1:44 And a sociopath. Dude, that's evil.

Did she think we wouldn't remember Russia FIRING on the humanitatian corridors out of Mariupol? What a horrible woman.

We usually abhor monsters that are monstrous in their physical appearance, however, such monsters like this woman with the appearance of a nice lady, loving mother and 'normal' intelligent person, is far more chilling. 😱😱😱😱😱

“Ukrainians are not trying to evacuate children from bakhmut or Mariupol” 😂😂 Is this a comedy piece?

The Russian DOG dares to quote the Geneva Convention, laughable

Izzy Yeong is an international treasure. She aint scared to interview the big dogs. God protect her and journalists like her.

Isobel Yeung is a wonderful reporter🙏 Please release the full unedited interview somewhere, so that we can get closer to what the situation is in reality🌍

I’m speechless. Isobel was without a doubt the right choice for this interview. With that being said, there’s one thing prominently on my mind and that’s the question of did Isobel and her team make it safely out of Russia?

Someone breaks in your house then blames you for letting children be in a dangerous situation then kidnaps them

This jornalist is a star.

Smug face in its purest form.

Well done for the interview Imogen! You're just going from strength to strength 💪

Props to the interviewer for not holding back, I can’t imagine the Russian guards standing behind camera just watching her ask these 😂😭 sweating bullets i would be