On Tuesday, the youth organization of Russia’s ruling party demonstrated in front of the Finnish embassy in Moscow.
President Vladimir Putin activists repeating the propaganda gathered on the day, which is the UN’s International Day of Child Victims of Violence.
The Russian state news agency reported on the matter, for example Ria.
The Embassy of Finland in Kropotkinskiy alley in Moscow had of media information including 150 people.
Press and culture officer of the Finnish embassy Jussi Palmén confirmed on Wednesday to by email that the United Russia youth organization demonstrated its opinion on Tuesday morning in front of the consulate.
– However, according to our estimate, approximately 50–60 people participated in the demonstration in front of the Finnish embassy.
According to Palmén, the demonstration was peaceful and lasted about half an hour.
– This is not the first time that an opinion has been expressed in front of the Finnish embassy. There are similar ones in Moscow constantly also near the embassies of other Western countries.
Russia repeatedly strikes civilian targets in Ukraine
approved by the UN of information according to Russia has killed at least more than 10,000 civilians in two years. In reality, the number of dead may be significantly higher, the UN points out.
The youth organization that organized the demonstration In Telegram updates however, the protesters blamed the Ukrainian regime for the civilian deaths and repeated the Russian regime’s lies about Ukraine committing crimes in eastern Ukraine.
In addition to the Finnish embassy, demonstrators protested in front of the embassies of 12 other NATO countries on the same day.
The Finnish embassy tells that the Russian protesters’ messages contained typical anti-Western propaganda related to Finland’s support for Ukraine.
The Putin youth gathered at, for example, the embassies of the United States, Germany, Lithuania and Estonia. In total, about 2,000 young Russians participated in the protests, Ria reported.
However, there is no certainty about the number of participants.
Hundreds of children have died in Ukraine
Even though Russia launched a major invasion of Ukraine, protesters falsely claimed that Western arms aid is responsible for the deaths of innocent Ukrainian children and called on the international community to take countermeasures.
Protesters in Moscow held signs depicting allegedly dead Ukrainian children. There is no certainty about the origin of the images.
Ukrainian administration site according to at least 551 children have died in the Russian attack during the war that started in February 2022.
In addition, the same according to the site at least 1,369 have been wounded in hostilities and more than 19,000 children have been taken out of the country.
In addition to the attacks in Ukraine, Russia has stolen Ukrainian children to the Russian side and also taken young people to brainwashing camps, as has previously reported.
Stealing of Ukrainian children by Russia is extensive and systematic. There are several cases.
The New York Times reported this week that in October 2022, Russia took at least 46 children under the age of 5 from Kherson in southern Ukraine to the Crimean peninsula.
The Russian occupation administration in Kherson and a number of high-ranking officials and representatives of the administration participated in the kidnappings of children from Kherson.
The children transferred from Kherson in October 2022 received Russian citizenship in the winter of 2023, which, according to Russian legislation, enables them to be adopted into Russian families.
In total, Ukrainian war crimes follow site has listed more than 220 Russian officials who have participated in the abduction of children from Ukraine.
UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine already watched in 2023, that Russian forced transfers of children from occupied territories blatantly violate children’s rights and should be classified as war crimes.
Russia’s propaganda campaign is accelerating
Western countries have considered that the Russian Children’s Commissioner is primarily responsible for child abductions Marija Lvova-Belova and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
Lvova-Belova and Putin met at the end of May. Russian according to the propaganda channel The Russian president claimed that Russia has transferred Ukrainian children to Russia to save them from gunfire.
Protesters in Moscow gathered in front of NATO embassies on Tuesday, four days after the meeting between Lvova-Belova and Putin.
It is one of many propaganda campaigns against Western countries that Russia has recently started.
For example, on Monday, posters appeared in Moscow urging the French army not to deploy against Russia.
Last week Helsingin sanomat newspaper reported on the propaganda exhibition that opened opposite the Finnish Embassy in Moscow, which deals with Finland’s anti-Russian attitude at different stages of history.
The Finnish embassy tells that the mentioned photo exhibition is not located on the embassy’s premises, and therefore the mission cannot remove it on its own.
– We are considering our own measures. The exhibition is propaganda, and we do not want to use our own measures to increase the attention it receives here, the embassy said.
Russia’s propaganda campaigns have intensified since the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg said in May that Ukraine should be given permission to strike Western weapons on Russian soil.
The Kremlin has repeatedly accused the military alliance NATO of meddling in the conflict in Ukraine.