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

In an exclusive interview with VICE News, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s children’s commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova denies illegally deporting or brainwashing thousands of Ukrainian children.
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[@mngx]

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

[@AZ-zo6yr]

Save child - It's not generosity, it's her job

[@dmytropopov92]

​@@AZ-zo6yr nice try, бот

[@LevytskaAnna]

They just commit genocide of Ukrainians. And Vice News makes it looking glamorous

[@silviualbisoru5749]

So what would you suggest it was supposed to be done once the parents were killed?What would you consider a good action in that situation?

[@MJ-gu6uu]

@@silviualbisoru5749maybe to get them into third party countries? And do not use them as exchange fund

[@DenysBrazhnyk]

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?

[@alexkhrekov1211]

Not so sweet...

[@tectomes]

And maybe if the room weren't pure white, we wouldn't have noticed--as fitting as it was--the food stuck in that smile.

[@soundsoflife9549]

Ukraine has been shelling these towns since 2014.

[@CombatMosquitoTrainer]

@@soundsoflife9549 only Russians, maga Americans and a few other feeble minded people will believe your propaganda. You're wasting your time mate. 🦘🦘🦘🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@b00mnator]

@@soundsoflife9549 Oh yes, who doesn't remember the constant shelling of Mariupol since 2014? Russian propaganda bot at work...

[@waterywaffles]

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.

[@aeternitasnox5151]

She’s banging that kid right? “My heart fluttered. I knew he was my son.” Fucking creepy answer

[@andyabuteo6084]

How is it that saving children abandoned by their parents political? You should ask yourself why these kids were left all alone in the first place in a war zone controlled mostly by Russians.

[@alexrockstone9035]

You are a victim of silly western propaganda.

[@fredbyoutubing]

I'm surprised the journalist didn't push back and mention how what she accused Ukrainians of doing is what she is openly doing. But great questions all around...this was bone chilling.

[@elephant_lover358]

​@@fredbyoutubingBecause if she did, they would probably just end the interview. The goal with these people is to just get them talking so their words can be used against them when they're inevitably in the courtroom.

[@nurnberg2022]

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.

[@Jeffthermite]

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

[@aposfi]

welcome to russian propaganda world

[@JohnCSmith-lp1qr]

The accusations are laughable 😂

[@antona.1327]

In the Russian world, there are two ways to justify your own wrongdoing: Use whataboutism and justify yourself by pointing fingers at other countries, or just blame the other countries.

[@natalieturko4808]

​@@JohnCSmith-lp1qr You are a Russian bot.

[@antona.1327]

@@JohnCSmith-lp1qr question: Did Russia attack Ukraine? The answer is yes. Question: Did Russia deport Ukrainian children from Ukrainian territories they have occupied or used to occupy? Yes. Did this ''lady'' admit that she ''adopted'' a child from Mariupol whose parents died [because of Russian shelling]? Yes. Now laugh.

[@DeeWeber]

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

[@hq3473]

I wish the interview was better prepared and would call her out on straight and blatant lies

[@jarethgar]

@@hq3473 murdoch has a big stake in vice, they're pro russia

[@fematrailer]

Then they would just end the interview. The point is to just keep them talking. As long as they aren't saying, "No comment," they're just going to continue digging a deeper hole. It's like a Jim Can't Swim video.

[@dana_____]

Funny thing is at the end the black haired girl speaking (whose audio Vice fade out into the shot) is turns around and says she forgot her lines.

[@mikehoncho5389]

What else would you expect from vice news? It’s trash

[@gigidi9983]

“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!

[@dexo83]

Indeed. thank you. what a terrible woman. her creepy cold smile says it all 😒

[@keltoplus5902]

Truth

[@Hereannow]

Well said Gigi, very well said! ❤

[@abirwlag]

Artek and Orlenok are real Gulag camps. So brain washed. 🤮

[@alexrockstone9035]

Concentration camps were created by German NAZIS, the very same human-like creatures who nowadays support neoNAZIs in modern Ukraine.

[@Acidlib]

“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.

[@giomjava]

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

[@gerokron3412]

That was almost ridicolous. She´s "saving" them from Russian bombs. Well, congrats. That´s not even propaganda, that´s utter bs.

[@microcosmysofficial9240]

She also lied about corridors. There were so many, but they were constantly shooting at them. It's their old tactics.

[@Vitamin_71]

This woman is not a journalist, she is a provocateur and propagandist who does not even want to listen to her opponent.

[@dmytrognativ2163]

​@@microcosmysofficial9240exactly. Families died in the cars.

[@freedomwhenneeded]

yes they did, their language, culture, and the country in civil war, they did need saving idiot 😂😂

[@Sentrme]

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!

[@savanna1558]

She's a devil hiding behind a pretty face

[@Mr-No-Life-2u]

Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya? Now the west cares about children?

[@mngx]

He is 16, he already knows and understands. But he also understands that he needs to survive, for now, so better play along.

[@amaruandujar]

@@mngx better than being forced to fight by zelensky putting innocent childrens lives at risk by not evecuating them. And dares to cry victim when his meat shields are blown up

[@kuschilop]

His mom died in 2017. And he was not in good terms with his stepfather. So he was alone during the war action. What wrong thing did she do?

[@Peter421]

You can literally see the evil in her grin

[@AahFukIt]

Exactly, I still remember Hillary Clinton's interview and grin when Gaddaffi was killed. " we came, he died" big grin! We live in an awfull world. No troll here, im European.

[@Gamerboy-gl7di]

@@AahFukIt ahha don't tell me u are a saint in this world

[@alexrockstone9035]

Really ? )

[@DonaldBiden420]

@@AahFukIt Are you talking about the same Gaddafi who was touring his country and taking underage girls from their parents to his harem?

[@larrybaba5635]

​@@DonaldBiden420 So you guys screwed Libya n became the good guys.

[@TomMS]

"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)

[@SimoN-vf8ps]

Like Ukraine which has a national holiday that celebrates a fascist collaborator and mass murderer from WW2? You are completely misinformed.

[@bear-code]

Russian are fascist, whauuu, didnt know that, thanks for leasson

[@planet-karma]

Just creepy...

[@niki-plays-roblox9862]

Hi, I’m from Russia and not supportive of the invasion but I have to correct the subtitles. She didn’t say in its purest form, she said ( в чистом виде) which can be translated as “just” in this particular context. So she really said : I’m not pro Russian, I’m just Russian. She is still a bish tho. But the subtitles are still clearly being manipulated wherever there is a slightest possibility for re interpretation of her words.

[@MariaSkorlupkina]

@@niki-plays-roblox9862 tf r u telling? she literally said “в чистом виде“ which can be translated both in literal or free or in any other kind of translation as “pure”. this expression is a sustainable matching. and she used it on purpose of emphasizing. don’t try to promote your own understanding of her words. the context was that she was trying to aggressively defend the government wills, she didn’t try to make an excuse with “просто“

[@rebeccadolashewich7094]

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

[@cg986]

"I am a mother" Yeah, so was the wife of Goebbels you sick ..... She talks proudly that Russia ignores international human rights. It's absolutely bizarre.

[@QuieroLibertad]

@@anonymousandy5574 Most p readonable anf kind Ulrainian:

[@QuieroLibertad]

@@anonymousandy5574 This keyboard is to small bruh

[@marcuslegion3654]

Why? Ukraine was bombing these places for like 8 years lol not only that but not even Ukraine it's the dnr

[@antona.1327]

@@marcuslegion3654 1. ''Why?'', what, you clown? You can't even specify your question. 2. What places, you half-wiitted moron? Mariupol?? Mariupol was actually saved by Ukraine, by the mighty Azov, in 2014, from sharing the fate of those banana republics you mentioned and kicked the Russians out. And guess what, the city was prospering and living the best life until the Russians didn't return. 3. Name at least one instance of Ukraine kidnapping Russian children after they destroyed a Russian city. I'll wait...4. DNR? What is DNR? I, for example, have no idea. Ukraine, on the other hand, is a country with rich history and national identity. Wakandans have more valid rights as a nation in the real world than ''DNR''.

[@mariolacic1539]

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

[@nguyenhuytuquan]

She doesn't think there is a People called Ukrainian. There are only Russians versus those opposing Russia. She is worse than Putin because she's not only evil but also ignorant - lack of ability to think for herself, just like many other Russian nationalists.

[@lurebenson7722]

What you seen of evil in that Russian women is what as an American who went to live in Moldova found of the Russian population. All Russians are evil murders - thief's - liars - rapist - child rapist and anything else immoral and Illegal that sums it up as a Russian !

[@donnagray3733]

To the hightest level Sinister

[@fjuvo]

You can see the evil in her eyes

[@derekaitken]

She's lying. She knows it is.

[@Mechanical-Animal]

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

[@dominiksoniowski1795]

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!

[@geoffrey4513]

I thought the same. Vice is just helping propagate Russian propaganda here.

[@fabianasensio1168]

Oh please...the rage reeks out of her as she speaks and let's go of her fake smile.

[@MrEd8846]

Just pay attention to this interview and you dont even need fact checking. She contradicts herself even with her scripted answers

[@niceforkinmove5511]

Can these children communicate with their Ukrainian families? Can the Ukrainian families come get these children? That is what I don't understand. Why aren't the Russians sharing pictures and identifying information of the children that were evacuated? Where are the Ukrainian families that are missing children? Have they reported it this to the Government? How does it work?

[@DucatiKozak]

​@@niceforkinmove5511 Great question! Another argument not presented by Vice. They've marginally done anything more than allow belova's genocidal propaganda breathing space in western media.

[@Rirah]

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.

[@alexolyuk904]

one can not say better!... Thanks!

[@lonewulfmo9128]

Whoa! Very apt description of the lady.

[@AZ-zo6yr]

She evacuated children from a war zone, where is a war crime here?

[@SimoN-vf8ps]

Would you rather the kids stay in an active warzone and possibly lose their life?

[@Rirah]

@@SimoN-vf8ps I would rather Russia not bomb places where kids live.

[@sasha-polishchuk]

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.

[@nanzistnt2573]

Ukraine uses human shields idiot. Its a documented tactic.

[@LodyC30]

you could see every squirm of her chair and dart of her eyes!

[@crabluva]

@@LodyC30 she looks completely evil. And she's a high-up in the Russian government. Tells you everything you need to know about that terrorist state.

[@chickendinner9255]

She isn’t wrong about saving kids.. I don’t see the UN going in and saving kids and putting them in a 3rd party area

[@markhusseymh1]

​@@chickendinner9255 it called ethnic cleansing which is classified as a major war crime under Geneva conventions rules and regulations and that's why she is now a wanted war criminal. The children should have been handed over to the Ukrainian government

[@olga6770]

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 😔

[@olil4307]

Я так надеюсь на вашу победу , на падение лукашевского режима , но я ненавижу наше скотское население . Как они могут это все поддерживать

[@olga6770]

@@olil4307 Спасибо за пожелание 💙💛 Старайтесь держаться адекватных людей, что-бы всё это пережить. Я тоже была разочарована дончанами, а сейчас меня шокируют люди в Мариуполе, но правда в том, что в любом из случаев, и в моем (на оккупированных территориях), и в вашем (по сути тоже оккупированном государстве) мы слышим только голоса неадекватов, понимающие люди вынуждены молчать чтобы выжить.

[@olil4307]

@@olga6770 Разумеется ! Никто не хочет ощутить,пардон швабру. Я ещё до войны в Украине узнала о том как калечат людей в Жодино и Окрестино ! Никогда не интересовалась политикой и такой шок ! И мир молчал ! Колхозное полено уродует людей ,удерживая власть! Самые падальные люди имеют успех! Слов нет,одни таблетки!🤥

[@luxborealis]

Sorry for writing in English, my Russian is too poor and my Ukrainian is nonexistent, I just wanted to give my sympathies. I am a teacher in Norway and one of my colleagues is a Ukrainian schoolteacher we were able to collect money for and save from Donetsk last year. He had refused to leave the school and the children back in 2014, but when the war started he refused to be drafted into the DNR militia by the Russians to shoot at his fellow Ukrainians, so they drafted his mother instead as a nurse, beat him up, stole his money and his clothes and left him naked in the snow. Luckily he survived, and we teachers from abroad who knew him were able to collect money for a smuggler who took him into Russia and then over to us. Poor man, he still teaches Ukrainian refugee children here, but he is worried sick about what is happening with his mother and the schoolchildren of Donetsk. I wonder if this lady grabbed any of them.

[@jonhdon-8992]

How about this stop fighting each other and bring peace amongst each other

[@Thebeardedcanucks]

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

[@DucatiKozak]

Yes! And reigning down on their residential homes! Already ruZZia was commiting war crimes. The reason she gave for the illegal deportations was a ruZZian war crime.

[@andyabuteo6084]

And where were these children's parents when they were "abducted"?? Abandoning their children and then yapping later on ??? ..lol..lol.

[@ALotOfCancer]

​@@andyabuteo6084Dude it's war. Their parents could be dead. What is wrong with you, seriously. See a therapist.

[@Thebeardedcanucks]

@@andyabuteo6084 the Russians probably killed them

[@BadgerMcblasty]

Weird, because from 2014 til Feb last year that was exclusively a Ukrainian trait, shelling civilians for 8 straight years. Where was your outrage then clown?

[@Lizablue0608]

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. 🤬

[@seratonin7004]

She's another carefully chosen piece of propaganda, and her image is part of that. She looks like a soft, gentle, pretty, compassionate mother - until she opens her mouth.

[@fjuvo]

You can see the evil in her eyes

[@sig7838]

Yeah ok calm your tits

[@SonnyoYucatan]

It's like seeing a Nazi criminal woman in 2023

[@superfreiheit1]

The devil hides always behind a nice face

[@dmitryaslamov9719]

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.

[@maiiabakhova2474]

@@olapolis8905 Russian army trapped people who tried to use humanitarian corridor from Mariupol.

[@digloo_]

У вас логические несостыковки. В одной и той же стране есть люди, которые спасают детей, и те, кто их убивает. И первые не должны отвечать за вторых, и тем блее гражданское лицо не может отвечать за военных. Из окруженных городов куча людей выехала через гуманитарные коридоры, тому есть множество подтверждений, это невозможно отрицать.

[@dmitryaslamov9719]

@@maiiabakhova2474 absolutly

[@dmitryaslamov9719]

@@digloo_ вы про чью страну говорите? Про Украину или Россию? Ракетати, танками, пулеметами не спасёшь детей! Их можно только убить.

[@digloo_]

@@dmitryaslamov9719 absolutely everyone has been trapped? So what did they do to these people?

[@TabLeTkaOFF]

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.

[@pjotrnygard1447]

Completely twisting the facts now aren't you, azov held the civillians hostage there is video evidence not that you would see any of it since you dirty ukrop stooge

[@EgoAquila]

why u so brainwashed?

[@GamesYouLike25]

@@EgoAquila you mean you are brainwashed?

[@picassomicasso1]

Stop lying: Ukraine is busy forcing men to go to the front. Ukraine is not the saint in this conflict. Mariupol is a Russian speaking city and Ukraine doesn’t do humanitarian corridors, that idea is a Russian one, it used used in Syria too

[@vagabond185]

@@picassomicasso1there are German speakink cities in Swiss, does it give Germany right to attack Swithzerland?

[@ItzBroken1]

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

[@piuswanyaga8361]

Because you are gullible sheep believing what MSM news tells you about Russia. You guys do not have any idea that MSM has been telling lies all along. Russia running out of missiles, sabotaging their own pipeline etc. Plain lines from the sources you believing

[@Rouge55]

Check out operation baby lift

[@bololo2000]

she is a clear psychopath, probably being a part of a sect named Russian church where her husband is a so called priest

[@1physics]

Check out social workers everywhere

[@I.____.....__...__]

She says she's a mother, but does she have any biological children, or did she just mean the ones she's kidnapped? 🤔 (And does she diddle all of them like she definitely diddles Philip? 🤔)

[@imperator_danny]

The Russian DOG dares to quote the Geneva Convention, laughable

[@Sienisota]

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.

[@LoveHammerMan]

Amnesty International has been reporting on it too.

[@TheBorodulkina]

Это ложь!

[@kevinaguilar7541]

@@TheBorodulkina you're a liar. Cope bot.

[@lynnkayee1015]

Exactly! I will never forget that Ukrainian man who found out his wife, daughter, son and family friend were killed during one of those agreed upon evacuation routes out of Irpin that was shelled. He saw photos of their bodies online and understood why he couldn't get a hold of any of them. 😩

[@СергейСавушкин-к6н]

Ukrainians did it to keep their human shield in place. They don't consider Mariupol People pro-ukrainian and don't care about them

[@julietavargascarcamo4411]

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

[@cg986]

She's a true fascist. List to how she says she's the purest form of Russian that a Russian can be. What the....???

[@ericeandco]

There is a significant Russian population in Ukraine. Doesn’t mean they don’t want to be independent though.

[@dewmontain123]

Why? She doesnt seem like a war criminal to me. Wheres all the proof?

[@cg986]

@@ericeandco Just the same trick the Germans used in ww2.

[@antona.1327]

@@ericeandco weird how not many people in Ukraine wanted to be ''independent'' from Ukraine (it's also weird how independent means being with Russia) until Russia didn't roll up their tanks on its territory.

[@johnster02]

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.

[@ticiusarakan]

you even dont know what you talking about. every child can leave russia and rejoin with his western ukranian relative. so i understand that you are just a zombi whos been hypnotised by corporate TV. gess i guess you was vaccinated at first line

[@paolosantiago3163]

This woman was nothing but a pure evil and wicked person I just hope time and bad karma will get her a high price for Hell.

[@kuliasharma9641]

Would it be better to see dead children?

[@user-ub4lk3pf3w]

I have a little sister and brother. And can speak a little Russian so I find the things she is saying very upsetting. My little sister understands more Russian than I do and is scared and upset by the whole thing and we are in the U.S. I could not even imagine what it must be like for families in Ukraine.

[@usamabhatti903]

And what would you say about the Palestinian children?

[@Nikolay_Slavov]

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

[@fraudsterman1393]

To be honest, i am russian speaking, fluent english but also did not understand. Maybe it is the way she phrased it or i was reading the subtitles…not sure

[@neolord50pro77]

Cause that was typical jour-no “trip up” question. Not being specific: “I guess a lot of issue come from definition who is stinky and who isn’t?🤪 And who is thinking he’s stinky and who isn’t?🙃”. ??? …

[@dirkbanzhaf234]

Of course she understud! She didn't want to answer this question. She had 100% a translater for the questions or a script before the interview started.

[@fraudsterman1393]

@@dirkbanzhaf234 Belova said smth about these territories not being Ukraine, while the interviewer continued saying “what is and what is not Russia”…she should have said “Ukraine”….thats why a bit confusing. She did not have script as this was a follow up question. Anyhow….when someone says I do not understand your question, you rephrase and ask it again, but this video cuts to a context scene right away….surely she asked again and got some kind of an answer

[@abbytfbdj65363]

@@fraudsterman1393 question is quite clear! In russian construction every person who speaks russian is considered russian. Russia claims that occupied territories are russia now, but it is not. International law doesn't recognize those territories as russia! So that is the wording!

[@ЯрославРаспутин]

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

[@АртемЧепрасов-х6е]

причем детей, которые чудом выжили под их бомбежками. недосягаемая вершина цинизма.

[@bololo2000]

@@АртемЧепрасов-х6е Russian politicians and propagandists are the best in any form of cynism, they prove it everyday in interviews about SMO

[@massimogouliny]

Ты не понял, это другое

[@Rhov9]

@@ramondiazsedano you’re absolutely right - we (USA) took Native children and placed them in boarding schools where many died and it was in an effort to kill their culture/language. This is well known and documented in US history (though, should be taught more widely I will admit). However, the issue I take with your comment is that this ended decades ago while Russia is CURRENTLY committing these kinds of crimes. So, your “whataboutism” is in incredibly poor taste seeing as this issue we’re currently discussing on this post/video has literally NOTHING to do with the US or Canada. Ya’ll need to stay on topic better ✌️

[@psychologiarelacji6797]

Дети не выглядели на "погнанных" на сцену. Видно было, что рады и действительно, благодарны.

[@MrAlexbotvinko]

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

[@mostbeautifulroads9789]

Great catch, thanks! Pitty this wasn't mentioned.

[@AZ-zo6yr]

there are rehearsals before any public performance, this

[@MJ-gu6uu]

Оу, точно 💯. А я понял что это спектакль из того что она слишком по-русски звучит, украинцы по другому говорят по русски

[@vladimirthegreen6097]

@@MJ-gu6uu не шути так

[@MiSt3300]

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

[@microcosmysofficial9240]

I'm not a supporter of death penalty, but for such evil creatures I really wish fucking suffering. Imagine killing their parents and after that convincing them that it was for good, because they were bad nazi, blabla. I hate this woman passionately.

[@arclightphoenix915]

Lmao you think every adopted child is brainwashed?

[@cobrastancult3241]

Their parents are also belong to Russia. They are just not there yet.

[@MiSt3300]

@@arclightphoenix915 I don't have that information, but I can only imagine what's going on there, judging by putins russia and what a horrible propagandised country it is.

[@MiSt3300]

@@cobrastancult3241 I don't believe in slavery, I believe that every parent or every person belongs where they want to belong, and these people are Ukrainians. Russia has made a lot of effort to also include these lands in their empire, but that is unethical, and this is beyond any debate. it's as if you said that terrorists acts of Al Qaida are justified and good. They are not, and if you support them, then I don't want to talk to you.

[@ShiftyCDN]

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

[@Telencephelon]

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"

[@SimoN-vf8ps]

You have room temperature IQ

[@motimobo]

"An empire of lies," Vladimir Putin, 2022, "Accuse them of that which you yourself are guilty" Goebbels, 1933

[@emzed1275]

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

[@AlexdaCunha]

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.

[@gwendolynmorgan7803]

Technically it is a defense, the USA created that loophole. The USA doesn't recognize the ICC either, that's part of how we also get away with war crimes. It's a loophole that shouldn't exist for anyone

[@0xBasedChang]

The U.S doesnt recognize the Hauge convention and will invade if their military was ever trialed there. American Service-Members' Protection Act The American Service-Members' Protection Act, known informally as the Hague Invasion Act, is a United States federal law described as "a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not party." The text of the Act has been codified as subchapter II of chapter 81 of title 22, United States Code.

[@JohnCSmith-lp1qr]

She should have left those Children on the battlefield ? You brainwashed 🐑

[@mr.giggles4995]

​​@@0xBasedChang precisely. The US has done much worse around the world than placing children displaced by war with families. We slaughter children on a daily basis with our drones and the weapons we supply the Saudis, Israelis, and vatious dictatorships (we support about 73% of them) The US would rather these kids fend for themselves.

[@Ben-ew7zo]

@@0xBasedChangboth countries are fucked up it’s just the US is the lesser evil

[@reybattaglia]

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?

[@FabiaNightshadow]

All these talks about “brotherhood” and so on means absolutely nothing. They are ashamed to admit they are loosing to us Ukrainians, as they always thought of us as weak second-grade nation. As a true bully, a russian is only capable of understanding the position of power. They know the west is stronger and smarter, they will not attack but they will threaten. As they do now.

[@Сергій-щ3б]

​@@Veronica_T ты пакет не забудь, главное

[@olga6770]

​@@Veronica_T Что мы делаем с своей землёй не ваше со***чье дело. "Замышляем заговоры" наитупейший аргумент. Даже если предположить что это правда, за замыслы не начинают войну, это аргумент разве что для гитлеровской Германии и для путинской россии. Зато россия несёт смерть и разрушения абсолютно конкретно, без всяких заговоров - Грузия, Сирия, Украина. Надеюсь кто-нибудь нападёт на вас под вашим же предлогом, типа вы гадости замышляете.

[@rafflesmaos]

@@olga6770 Ичкерия, Молдова... Увы никто на рашку не нападёт, так как у них ядерка и чокнутый царёк в бункере.

[@Lizzi86_Leo]

​@@Veronica_T ну видимо рф тоже не может разобраться со своей территорией, народом и так далее. Учитывая что в раиси куча городов на грани разрухи за пределами мкада, а русские являются угнетаемым меньшинством в собственной стране, я думаю рф тоже надо освободить

[@Bev4Drawing]

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

[@SimoN-vf8ps]

Ukraine is using kids as political tools. Look up far-right militia camps for children and minors in Ukraine. Might still be some articles left,if they haven't deleted them all.

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

You basically summed up the ruzzian playbook in one comment. Absolutely disgusting people

[@MCKevin289]

This interview has been hard for me to get through. I’m a teacher work and my heart breaks for all of them. But then she reminds me of my narcissistic, abusive, gaslighter of an ex girlfriend.

[@Angels-3xist]

Correct

[@Ирина-в7х6х]

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.

[@Виктория-ц1в3ш]

Те же мысли и ощущения

[@NigelTolley]

Fingers crossed. Most likely she'll get shot when Putin does.

[@scoutrava]

Да, в приговоре так и напишут "Улыбается, в те моменты, когда это неуместно. Как социопат какой-то. Виновна!".

[@qw9bp]

Да, на голову там точно нездоровы, согласен.

[@TKUA11]

So much Russian bot scum in comments

[@xentrix89]

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

[@tandemlabs9408]

i was about to say this! she answered like a "ya je maty", a russian Karen basically

[@sullivano1]

Her and Kamala Harris are eerily similar

[@Power_to_the_people567]

@@sullivano1 No

[@TheDenizxo]

She's an extreme nationalist 😢

[@TheDenizxo]

​@@sullivano1oh co mon kamala Harris doesn't even have anything to do with Afghanistan or anything like this abroad. This is ultra nationalism with no free speech.

[@ironknee6879]

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.

[@AngrySlavaUkraini]

@@anonymousandy5574amen

[@rasek240]

Vice has been covering the conflict in Donbas from the very beginning. We literally could watch it live in 2014

[@JohnCSmith-lp1qr]

You lying .....may work for some uninformed westerners but most of us did follow the event in Ukraine since 2014

[@zbiku82]

@@JohnCSmith-lp1qr John Smith 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Da da comrade!

[@natalieturko4808]

​@@JohnCSmith-lp1qr No, YOU are lying. Ukrainians KNOW their history. You don't.

[@olegshimanskyy4266]

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!

[@shaynebrown4331]

she's one of vices best... her interviews are raw and to the point. the one were she interviews the two isis prisoners is good

[@airheart1]

Brave as hell to go in there knowing they could slap her in prison for breathing wrong

[@ShainAndrews]

People like you take such events at face value... Let us know when you choose independent thought and get back to us.

[@aubreymeier8422]

especially after the recent US journalist was arrested in Russia. Isobel must be protected at all costs!!

[@ShainAndrews]

@@aubreymeier8422 Piss off..

[@madeline6951]

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

[@marioluigi9599]

The question I was wondering most about was, why was she into "Philip"? He's hardly a kid anymore. When I saw him, I thought it was weird that they referred to him as a "child". He's basically an adult now and she herself doesn't look much older than him. Why does she need to be his mother? Normally when people adopt, they want to adopt babies, not "children" that are officially adults in 2 years time. Even children that are 8 years old are too old for most adoptive parents

[@madeline6951]

@@marioluigi9599 We can speculate to infinity. A plausible explanation could be that this child was groomed and selected for best aligning with russian propaganda and he was a "safe" choice. Another is that they don't really care, he's a random vanity kid, and they know he can't do anything about his circumstances. Or she really just liked that kid for whatever reason. At the end of the day, we still know that this is mind bogglingly wrong, no matter what their reasoning was.

[@marioluigi9599]

@@madeline6951 could she be pedo?

[@madeline6951]

@@marioluigi9599 damn, I don't know actually... I hope not, but damn

[@marioluigi9599]

@@madeline6951 I know things definitely go down in HER household

[@rookki]

Evil.

[@yurichtube1162]

She saved the children from a warzone. You are being propogandized

[@yurichtube1162]

@Joe Fool, you're propogandized. Russia saved those kids. Nato instigated this war. Russia tried 8 years for peace. Don't become a warmonger like your elite want you to be, peace and dialogue is the only way this war can end.

[@KirillClimin]

​@Joe God forbid! Russia needs a deep change from within, and not disintegration.

[@alexrockstone9035]

@@joe-tu7ex the Ukraine ?

[@1bobor]

Rescuing kids into safety is evil?

[@desmond-hawkins]

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.

[@netflixandchinchilla]

The person translating probably had to rephrase some of the questions in Russian so she wasn't thrown out of a window on the way out. You could almost see the fear in her face when she pressed her further on some of those questions.

[@sergeyrosslive]

bullshit. She didn't ask her hard questions. What russians where doing in Ukraine in the first place? Ridiculous.

[@user-lookitalki]

Если имеется ввиду удивление, по поводу согласия российской стороны, то- они просто хотят оправдаться. Они не оставили и не оставляют своей гнусной цели, переубедить иностранную, европейскую аудиторию в том, что они не пресупники.

[@SableOrpheon]

Without a doubt, one of the greatest journalists of our generation.

[@가니메데]

She shouldn't be interviewing her. Why give a war criminal a chance to make excuses and let their voice be heard?

[@mycellphone4437]

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

[@0xBasedChang]

The U.S doesnt recognize the Hauge convention and will invade if their military was ever trialed there. American Service-Members' Protection Act The American Service-Members' Protection Act, known informally as the Hague Invasion Act, is a United States federal law described as "a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not party." The text of the Act has been codified as subchapter II of chapter 81 of title 22, United States Code.

[@snarfblam]

@@0xBasedChang Russia invaded Ukraine. You keep bringing up the US. Maybe you're commenting on the wrong video?

[@alexrockstone9035]

An 'International tribunal' exists only in your sick brain.

[@nik-sj5ud]

​@@snarfblam people love to point the US for many reasons, but their forgetting the fact that Russia is the main aggressor for invading a peaceful yet uninvolved country and the main hypocrite when it comes to war crimes at broad daylight.

[@nilssmoogelson7390]

@@0xBasedChang 10rubels for you pjotor. keep spamming the same bs

[@timweber1973]

A mother cant be a war criminal?

[@6tyjh]

She thinks she's safe, so did Adolf Eichmann and his ass got got too.

[@definitelynotlorde]

Fingers crossed for her for not getting away with any of this, she’s stone cold evil.

[@disconductorder]

True or false Ukraine has been at civil war with Donetsk and Luhansk?

[@Tony300186]

Eichmann's orders were carried out by Ukrainians

[@snarfblam]

​@@disconductorder Here on planet Earth Ukraine has been fighting with Russian-backed militias, but what even is your point? Your prompt is a complete non-sequitur.

[@disconductorder]

​@@snarfblam The Ukraine gov was overthrown in 2014 and your calling the people that did not find it legitimate Russian back militias? They were no Russian citizens doing this, it was Ukrainians that seceded from the fraud overthrown gov. GTFO with your Victoria Nuland state department lies.

[@acmb6763]

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

[@stanarcer8741]

Just part of Russian-nazi propaganda

[@motimobo]

Exactly, Bakhmut had a population of 70,000, now just a few hundred are left behind Russian lines. The Ukrainians did every thing they could to get people to safety except for forcing them against their will. Everyday, right until the last moment before the Russians arrived, rescuers tried to persuade the last few people to safety at huge risk to themselves from Russian shelling.

[@acmb6763]

@@motimobo they are STILL trying to get people out. They get there and the population says no. I have friends that rescued people in Mariupol in the beginning. She only gave this interview to cut the stupid parts she wants to show Russian sheep

[@Monika-zx7ti]

Ukrainians are not trying to evacuate children from bakhmut or Mariupol as they are the living shield.

[@befgeugfyeygfuyewkgfeufhuw9149]

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!

[@bololo2000]

thank you for sharing your opinion, I think anybody who is not totally blind see what is Russian regime doing in Ukraine and it's not only the last year. Free Ukraine from Russian occupiers as we did in Czechoslovakia and free those in Russia who became prisoners in their own country rulled by fuhrer Putler.

[@Monika-zx7ti]

I am sorry but in your opinion had it been better if these children die on the spot?

[@lar7849]

❤

[@bololo2000]

@@Monika-zx7ti apologizing the Russian blackmailing when they bombed the humanitarian corridors and trapped scared people in the city to point them later to their filtration nazi camps doesn't sound like a goodwill or better option to me but like a one evil plan

[@deviant0017]

​@@Monika-zx7ti maybe russia shouldn't attack other countries then there are would be no need to save children?

[@El_Dusty_]

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

[@thomassecurename3152]

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

[@beniceovna8762]

giving platform to russian genocidal scum is an act that deserves condemnation, not a praise

[@wutm8]

Yes Russia is so anti journalism and freedom of press. She is like the 007 of journalism. Lucky she didn't get poisoned. She should get a medal of honor

[@yungspaghetti1685]

Does she confront the threats America poses for the slightest provocation like in Irak, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Syria ?

[@thomassecurename3152]

@@yungspaghetti1685 Go back to drinking cheap vodka.

[@kerinwills]

@@yungspaghetti1685 You obviously don't watch Vice.

[@Sir_Vantage]

You can tell she trained for this interview

[@DonaldBiden420]

There is really no training here. It's just common ruscist propaganda from TV.

[@I.____.....__...__]

That's not training, it's just pure, unadulterated psychopathy. 😒

[@rey1953]

It is true that people like her and Lavrov have their altered reality story done pat. Unfortunate that their are people around the world for various reasons are buying into it or at least they say they do.

[@keltoplus5902]

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

[@alexrockstone9035]

A 'monster' for badly educated if not plain stupid westerner.

[@Monika-zx7ti]

And being beautiful not a monster. I wonder how you look like?😊

[@keltoplus5902]

@@Monika-zx7ti I look great and I don’t support genocide so, I feel pretty good thanks.

[@my_krosh]

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

[@mattg4836]

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

[@Monika-zx7ti]

wrong similarity.

[@rinflame44]

If they interviewed Mengele in 2023, this is exactly what it would look like.

[@Monika-zx7ti]

Who thinks evil is evil.

[@kurteisner67]

@@Monika-zx7ti Yes, describes you perfectly.

[@gimmedimmy6533]

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

[@AZ-zo6yr]

what exactly did she lie ?

[@daniilponomarenko6847]

You are evil, and you know it )

[@gimmedimmy6533]

@@AZ-zo6yr About virtually everything she was talking about. Do you think Putin has partnered with Wagner and conscripted from Rusich and the Russian Imperial Movement, because he loves Ukrainian culture? He enlists a company of mercenaries filled with far-right paramilitary and literal Nazi terrorists because he intended to commit genocide against Ukraine. Cities like Kyiv and others have been subject to artillery bombardment and cruise missiles for months, hitting many civilian targets and even deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure. Putin is a ghoul and a war criminal. Mariupol and other cities have been decimated. In the initial days civilian corridors were targeted so people were forced to remain, only to be targeted with constant artillery bombardment. Putin and this woman are an abomination. They are utterly morally-bankrupt and evil. The Russian empire is an affront to humanity.

[@motimobo]

@@AZ-zo6yr One obvious example: The Ukrainians allowed no humanitarian corridors. I followed the siege of Mariupol everyday and the Ukrainians were doing everything they could to get the Russians to allow civilians to escape. They even got Macron to petition Putin personally to allow people to escape the carnage. Mariupol had a population of 450,000 and your army blocked in the inhabitants and destroyed it killing and maiming thousands of innocent civilians. If they had the chance they would've mostly fled to Ukrainian controlled territory.

[@AZ-zo6yr]

@@motimobo hm... interesting. I also closely followed the reports from Mariupol (EU and US reporters on the groud), interviews of refugees. And it is obvious that Russia provided corridors, but Azov blocked the exit of civilians.

[@johnster02]

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

[@sdgdasgupta8858]

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.

[@gerardjagroo]

What boxes does she tick?

[@АлинаКероман]

She just listens to the translation, combining it with the intonations and words of the journalist. So, don't panic. You are not being pursued. :-)

[@picassomicasso1]

You’re brainwashed. Go find your brain

[@kosmarjus]

farm comments coming in 3. 2. 1 her goal is to seed doubt and make it look like this one sided war has some middle ground. truth is - war stops the moment russia leaves ukraine. it's just another (remember transnistria, abkhazia and south ossetia) landgrab by a deranged emperor. the fact that there are russian ethnic people living in ukraine does not give russia any right to annex those territories, if it was the case next up would be peoples republic of brighton beach.

[@FUUUUU1111]

Oh that’s a good idea, i like it 😂

[@Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ]

No, it won't stop, Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimean people will simply not accept Ukrainian rule there, if Russia leaves Ukraine will face insurgency.

[@УютнаяЛена]

Why you doing this interview with kidnapping woman ?!!! this woman is a criminal, she needs to be put in jail. She steals Ukrainian children. I won’t watch this!

[@Restland94]

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!

[@marie..k101]

Please link the article! I would love to read it!

[@hmvollbanane1259]

Ah yes we Germans had a similar program in the 40s "saving" "arian" children from the east and giving them to "more suitable" families

[@DrewSteezy]

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

[@karenwaddell9396]

Or the interpreters expression as they tried to not show any expression.

[@DavidJohnson-hg1mz]

I’m not even sure how she managed to walk out of the interview considering the size of her balls. Probably needed a wheel chair and wheel barrow.

[@Fawne-b1q]

you watch too much western propaganda, bro

[@DrewSteezy]

@@Fawne-b1q no I don’t, it was a joke lmao.

[@kaiser-qh8nn]

​@@Fawne-b1q and you see lot of russian propaganda

[@davisoaresalves5179]

This jornalist is a star.

[@Octiligon]

Only when it comes to this

[@theylaughatmynickname4860]

As a western propaganda mouthpiece yes. Absolutely

[@personaldove]

@@theylaughatmynickname4860 Russian bot spotted.

[@ndole71]

@@personaldove No us/nato moron detected

[@kaiser-qh8nn]

​@@theylaughatmynickname4860cry

[@dalimillazan2877]

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.

[@DeeWeber]

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

[@stanarcer8741]

Pure evil

[@Monika-zx7ti]

Defamation is a criminal sin!

[@DeeWeber]

@@Monika-zx7ti Putin is an evil cruel dictator who has ruined Russia. I hope one day Russia will be free.

[@pastelpurpledeathbed]

Children. They’re stealing children. Good lord.

[@definitelynotlorde]

@@yurichtube1162 You’re supposed to lick Putins boot, not to deep throat it.

[@teotheterrible]

Yeah... better leave them where the Shelling is going on... Stop living in your TV!

[@andrewq159]

@@yurichtube1162 Ukraine isn't involved in Hungary.

[@andrewq159]

@@teotheterrible They could be evacuated to western Ukraine.

[@yurichtube1162]

@@andrewq159 Ukraine has a big ethnic Hungarian community with the border with Hungary. Ukraine actively steals schoolboys to fight in Bakhmut.

[@ReclusiveEagle]

Don't forget, Russia: *Drops a missile on a Theater with massive* "Children" (inside) *written in stones that could be seen from aerial photos*

[@royalbandit8106]

She literally does a villain laugh when accused of war crimes and kidnapping children. KZbin took down this comment so I've rewritten it. At least we know who side their on.

[@SamPashmi]

I know right

[@valentinemaina3719]

This children will turn against them someday

[@mariia.ko555]

I would like to see you giving a platform to Ukrainian voices to speak. We have been silenced by russian empire for way too long. The world needs to hear more Ukrainians and their stories

[@benali7446]

Speak, we are listening! Although I think it's not fair to say Ukraine has not been given a platform to be heard.

[@yuliyapavliuk7888]

@@benali7446 well, unfortunately you didn’t get her. She meant that we are Ukrainians as a nation and country were in the shadows of russia. What means our voice wasn’t that strong comparing to nowadays. For example 2014 vs 2022. That’s it🫶🏻

[@benali7446]

@@yuliyapavliuk7888 I remember differently around 2014 there was alot of media (Western) coverage of Ukraine actions in the Donbass region up to when Russia invaded. Just because it reflected badly on Ukraine does not mean it wasn't there..

[@BongShlong]

​@@benali7446 it didn't reflect poorly on Ukraine. The whole western world was disgusted but too cowardly and economically enmeshed to do anything about it. Ukraine has always had problems, a lot of which have been caused or worsened by Russia historically. Yet they bravely fight off this much larger fascist bully and deserve respect.

[@Lovepeachesss]

B*tch y’all voices are everywhere

[@andrewq159]

Kidnapping & abduction are the correct terms.

[@yurichtube1162]

Not at all. She saved children from an active warzone. The children are ethnic Russians.

[@АндрійБорбунов]

@@yurichtube1162 you are ehnic russian. The children are Ukrainians

[@Biztalkcontrolcenter]

Exactly. Its a nothing burger. She saved them.

[@yurichtube1162]

@@АндрійБорбунов Those children are ethnic Russians, who were being bombed by the nazi Ukranian regime. That woman saved them. I hope vice will report about ethnic Hungarians being kidnapped by Kyiv soon, to fight this pointless war instigated by nato.

[@andrewq159]

@@yurichtube1162 Taking them to Russia permanently, without their parents' permission, isn't saving them.

[@prophet_of_pain3335]

She really needs to work on her body language if she's gonna lie that much to a reporter.

[@amorosogombe9650]

The children wouldn't be in danger if Russia hadn't invaded Ukraine. Orwellian.

[@meredithtungsten2520]

Russia's position on this is that war is bad, but living under "Ukronazis" is even worse.

[@madeline6951]

​@@meredithtungsten2520 seethe, russian bot. I'm ukrainian, have actual relatives in the army and still can't find any nazis. Cope.

[@shermoore1693]

ONLY RUSSIA considers the south eastern oblasts as 'part of Russia'. Not the UN, nor any independent country accepts Russian imposing its sovereignty on these regions.

[@stevinharper3551]

That woman deserves anything bad thatcan happen to her besides her kids being hurt, but her personally should be brutally brutally punished

[@Timmyhk2]

The kids are demon offspring. Hate to say it but it’s true.

[@fredisaacs9350]

She's probably a leader in a Russian church as a second title

[@stevinharper3551]

@@fredisaacs9350 most likely with how messed up they are

[@sigmaputin6888]

@@stevinharper3551 Not as messed up as Ukrainian facist pigs 🐷

[@volkerhartnegg8211]

i can see goebbels in her eyes

[@belindachappstikheiresstot5346]

The LOOKS between these two Women is EVERYTHING…

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

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

[@Monika-zx7ti]

Defamation is a criminal sin!

[@Ianmundo]

The pretty smiling face of genocide

[@ebiekem]

Huh.....*searches for the word "genocide" on google* aha! Genocide. "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group." Now care to explain how her action of moving children to SAFETY automatically translate to genocide? Just curious.

[@sonyanuan8110]

@@ebiekemher country started the war. her country created the danger and murder, torture people on occupied lands for their proukrainian position or ukrainian language. she moves children to far russian regions and give them russian citizenship so they’ll never come back to ukraine and lose their ukrainian identity. i’m shocked i have to explain such obvious arguments WHY this is a GENOCIDE

[@Monika-zx7ti]

Stupidity and bias and hating the beautiful people!

[@rihardsricardsons6635]

Pure Evil!

[@Tony300186]

NATO is pure evil.

[@mrobocop1666]

She takes them out of war zones and give back to parents if theybare alive and claim themselves to authorities. Or what you suppose to do? You'd rather leave those children under artillery fire without food and warm? Yet in Germany a lot of children of Ukrainian refugees are taken out and given to German families, improving German demography, Ukrainian parents making videos about that pleading for help, but Western most truthful media are not gonna mention that, it seems

[@Monika-zx7ti]

splashing blind people

[@StickGameChanell]

С каким же наслаждением я буду смотреть будущий эфир судебного процесса в Гааге над такими мразями.

[@berlynify]

100%

[@dustin7405]

Are you gonna travel to russia and arrest her yourself buddy? 😂

[@knopkaplay0507]

@@dustin7405 да нет, этот, похоже, из наших врэвакуантов. Если вернётся до воцарения прекрасной России будущего - огребет по физиономии пару раз, потом, может, присядет лет на несколько - а потом будет ему и Гаага, и белка и свисток.

[@MHAMADmc]

Хрюкни🌚

[@StickGameChanell]

@@knopkaplay0507 я русский, последние месяцы в Польше. Один из членов моей семьи работает с ВСУ и польскими властями(это публичная информация - можно спокойно писать). До падения режима не вернусь, не переживайте)

[@TheAIishere]

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

[@bigfishfishing-111]

I've watched half. She's is evil 😈 She is constantly smirking . I read she has 18 kids. She wouldn't even have time to parent. She's got psychological issues. Hope she gets arrested. She isn't innocent IMO

[@Monika-zx7ti]

Oh- who is smiling is evil, good logic.Elaborated opinion.

[@thomassecurename3152]

Russia is such a “happy place“. Hard to wait for its disintegration.

[@KirillClimin]

Don's wish for Russia's demise - wish for it to change. Just like Germany once did (and I do realise that it was occupied by foreign forces, but still)

[@thomassecurename3152]

@@KirillClimin Change came only after loss and disintegration of the former regime. Russia has an over abundance of self importance and few civilized values.

[@Gamerboy-gl7di]

@@thomassecurename3152 u can dream about disintegration but don't think Russia don't have allies

[@alexrockstone9035]

Keep dreaming.

[@thomassecurename3152]

@@Gamerboy-gl7di Drown your thoughts in cheap China vodka

[@soyboyy1994]

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

[@vznquest]

She's the Vice GOAT

[@viposad]

Hell no, man. This is such a bullshit journalist job. The only thing Izzy did was giving a speech platform to a Hague-awaited international war criminal. She never said anything to contradict obvious blatant lies. You say you use children at a political stage and then you say you don’t? Okay. You had to „save” children from the country you invaded from your own shelling? Well okay okay. You were demonstratively shown a camp with deported children and they’re okay. Ffs, for real, everything is great yeah? You say those children are provided with a possibility to learn Ukrainian in russia? Whatdafunk, where on earth is that the truth!? Any freaking example out there!? But well who needs to ask those questions, go on Maria, tell us more russian propaganda bullshit. We’ll do essentially nothing to contradict it even on post-production.

[@mk13085]

Well done on giving war criminal a platform to speak their mind. Imagine interviewing a child molester and not a single time correcting them, that abusing children is not the same as guiding them into adult world. Obviously, a right to journalism should be a fundamental right in democratic countries, but you just don't, you simply don't put criminals on stand and listen to everything they have to say. For that purposes we have trials, not interviews. At least a prosecutor would be able to point out limitless crimes, this woman has done. Shame to you vice news.

[@katewoolf6059]

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

[@fjuvo]

You can see the evil in her eyes. Chilling

[@miguelandreas8198]

That's not evil in her eyes just plain stupidity. As Russian proverb says "Прикинуться дурачком"

[@olivka7560]

What evil? What she should have done? Leave them just like Americans did so 1 mln victims and most are kids? Go ask Iraqi if Americans offered them to take kids away for holidays or told them to stay at home in the line of fire and then dropped bombs in their houses. How many parents were saying Anericans killed all their kids by bombs dropped saying their fighters hid around so it was just ‘ collateral ‘ damage. This is good, what this woman does is evil. Ok

[@motimobo]

@@olivka7560 Are you evil Olivka? Do you think it's okay to completely destroy a city with 450,000 inhabitants with tanks and bombs and kill any of them in their cars when they try to escape to safety?

[@TimurChepiga]

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?"

[@dimakolesik]

In Russia, we have a strong cult of Mother, where being a mother stands above all your misdeeds and merits. Lvova-Belova's cunning face is the purest embodiment of this cult. P.S. thank you for your bravery to bring light on atrocities that to this day happen in the world.

[@mnxs]

Thank you for elaborating this; I figured that it had special meaning, but little to base it on.

[@BizzeeB]

Damn, Isobel, I hope you don't go near any windows while you're there...and I hope you have someone testing all your food and drinks.

[@trartalacrem]

She has dealt with much worst danger then that and she perfectly masters the "push to the extreme limit but not too far" art.

[@AZ-zo6yr]

why should she be afraid of anything?

[@trartalacrem]

@@AZ-zo6yr It seems that you did not read the news since one year! Are you living in a cave? Dozens of Russians with high positions died in very suspicious way, falling from a window "accidentally" in a high building being one of the usual "explanations". Check for example the fate of Marina Yankina (Head of the financial support department of the Ministry of Defense for the Western Military District.) who was found dead after falling from a window on the 16th-floor of a high-rise building the 16th of February 2023.

[@mnxs]

​@@AZ-zo6yr Because what usually happens to journalists in Russia who ask questions that the regime doesn't like either end up assasinated or imprisoned on false charges.

[@AZ-zo6yr]

@@mnxs "usially" - how often is this? Please, provide some real examples

[@thelastbison2241]

Edit: Damn, the fearless Isobel*.

[@thelastbison2241]

@@stereomachine Thank you! My mistake!

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Hope karma catches up with her soon.

[@MsEsquire83]

"He calls me Mom now." This is possibly the most chilling, infuriating, and heartbreakingly evil thing I have ever heard.

[@ahmedsaleh9509]

Its scary

[@jakubkrolak4064]

It's powerful. What greater victory can there be than killing the father and making his son truly believe that you were so right in doing so that you're more of his parent then them? An ultimate act of domination

[@fabianasensio1168]

Wow.. that's a gutsy reporter, interviewing one of Putler's snakes with a pretty face and smile. You can see the rage, though, as she speaks her lies.

[@Cola_Dulz]

She's creepy, I feel like she's a demon. This cynicism is just.. it's awful.

[@shsh-he5qg]

Grow a pair you big girl 😂

[@adamjohnson6016]

Isobel(the journalist) is a beast, I am only a couple minutes into this and her questions and the way she asks them is perfect. She knew she would get lies and propaganda as answers but handled this great.

[@dontbeafool]

Really not that good. Hence why she was given an interview.

[@adamjohnson6016]

@@dontbeafool Please, you didn't even watch it then. They gave the interview because propaganda wants a platform above all. Even if 99% of people know it's BS.

[@dontbeafool]

@@adamjohnson6016 I watched it. Twice. Lets Agree to disagree.

[@themindless6234]

@@dontbeafool but you are a fool

[@viposad]

Hell no! This is such a bullshit journalist job. The only thing Izzy did was giving a speech platform to a Hague-awaited international war criminal. She never said anything to contradict obvious blatant lies. You say you use children at a political stage and then you say you don’t? Okay. You had to „save” children from the country you invaded from your own shelling? Well okay okay. You were demonstratively shown a camp with deported children and they’re okay. Ffs, for real, everything is great yeah? You say those children are provided with a possibility to learn Ukrainian in russia? Whatdafunk, where on earth is that the truth!? Any freaking example out there!? But well who needs to ask those questions, go on Maria, tell us more russian propaganda bullshit. We’ll do essentially nothing to contradict it even on post-production.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Slava Ukraine