Vest with «Peacemaker» logo . File photoMOSCOW, July 21Moscow will insist that the UN Secretary General tell the Ukrainian authorities about the inadmissibility of including these hundreds of children in the list of the Peacemaker website, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Representative of Russia to the UN, said on Thursday. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that a letter was sent to the UN Secretary General regarding information about the data of 327 children from Donbass to the list of the infamous site.The lives of the children caught in the «Peacemaker» are in danger, said Polyansky «We will insist that the Secretary General, firstly, raise this issue in communication with the Ukrainian authorities, point out that this is unacceptable and contrary to basic international principles, including including the principles of protecting children's rights. And for him to take some position on this matter,» Polyansky said on the Russia 24 TV channel. «This topic is not comfortable for the UN and international officials, but it seems to me that this is simply limit when such a number of minors can be harassed,” he said. In October 2021, a girl from Luhansk, Faina Savenkova, was included in the list of people allegedly posing a threat to the national security of Ukraine compiled by the Peacemaker. Before that, the girl recorded a video message to the members of the UN Security Council, in which she called on the organization not to forget that the children of Donbass have the right to childhood and a peaceful life. In the office of the official representative of the UN Secretary General, in response to a question about adding Savenkova to the Peacemaker database, they urged not to use children and residents of regions affected by conflicts for political purposes. Savenkova also wrote a letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres, in which she asked for help and asked to influence on the government of Ukraine so that the personal information of minors is urgently removed from the Peacemaker website, and the resource itself is blocked. A copy of the letter was sent to UNICEF. The Peacemaker website is known for scandalous publications in which it publishes the data of journalists, militias from the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics and other citizens, calling them «traitors to the motherland.» In the spring of 2016, the Peacemaker published lists of journalists including foreigners who received accreditation from the DPR and LPR, indicating their contact details, after which some of them received threats. The then OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, called the publication «an alarming step that could further jeopardize the safety of journalists.» journalists.» Information about a number of Russian cultural figures and other citizens of different countries has also been included in the database of the Peacemaker website. Site «Peacemaker»
