Russian lawmaker disputes report saying he adopted a child taken from a Ukrainian children's home

A Russian lawmaker and staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin has denied media allegations that he adopted a missing 2-year-old girl who was removed from a Ukrainian children’s home and changed her name in Russia. Sergey Mironov, 70, the leader of political party A Just Russia, asserted on social media that the Ukrainian security services and their Western partners concocted a “fake” report to discredit true Russian patriots like himself. Mironov accused the two news organizations of having only “one goal — to discredit those who take an uncompromising patriotic position.”

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