In March, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Lvova-Belova, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin, on charges of committing a war crime by forcibly deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine and taking them to Russia.

She has said vulnerable children were taken to Russia to shelter them from violence and protect them from a leadership in Ukraine that she has described as “Fascists” who have allowed “the virus of Nazism” to make a comeback.

A London-based private intelligence service called Molfar disclosed publicly in a Jan. 3, 2023 report about Russia’s removal of children from Ukraine that Petrov’s Skype handle is wotan_jugend8989.

A Dec. 16, 2022 European Union decision imposing sanctions on Petrov said he is “involved in the illegal transportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and their adoption by Russian families.”

When Russia gave a presentation on April 5 this year to the United Nations Security Council to rebut allegations about its treatment of Ukrainian children, Petrov was among the speakers.

The administrator said the group promotes a right-wing world view, and many of its followers back Ukraine in its war with Russia because they want to overthrow the Russian state.