A Russian girl who was sent to an orphanage after she painted an anti-war picture and her father was convicted of defaming the armed forces has been taken away from the orphanage by her mother, Reuters reports.

A few hours before the court was supposed to hold a hearing on the parental rights of the girl’s father, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights of Russia, Maria Lvova-Belova, said that she spoke with the girl’s mother, who took her from social workers.

Her father, Oleksiy Moskalyov, one of the parents, was found guilty of slandering the armed forces and received a two-year prison term, leaving his daughter Maria, nicknamed Masha, in the care of the state, as her mother had not lived with the family for years. .

Children’s Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova said that she spoke with the girl and her mother named Olga.

“Masha initially did not want to go to her mother, and the law must take her opinion into account. Now her position has changed, she herself told me about it on the phone,” said Lvova-Belova.

“Olga has already taken Masha from the social rehabilitation center,” she added. “Let’s hope that everything will work out for mother and daughter.”

Lvova-Belova published a joint photo of the girl and her mother, which was selected by independent Russian journalists.

In March, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin and the President’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, holding them responsible for the “military crime of illegal deportation” of Ukrainian minors.

Masha’s father, convicted for anti-war cartoons

Oleksiy Moskalyov’s problems began after his daughter Maria drew a picture in an art class last year showing Russian missiles flying toward Ukraine and the slogans “Glory to Ukraine” and “No Putin, no war.”

Secondary school No. 9 in Yefremov, 290 km south of Moscow, notified the police, who discussed the matter with both Moskalev and his 12-year-old daughter.

Then Moskalyov reported that FSB officers also came to talk to him and his daughter.

Soon, social services joined the case, and Moskalev was accused of bad upbringing of his daughter and fined. He was also accused of discrediting the Russian armed forces in social media posts, and the man said his account had been hacked.

He was detained on March 1, and the next day the court sent him under house arrest. Maria, known by the diminutive name of Masha, was sent to an orphanage.

Moskalev escaped, but was arrested in Minsk.

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In the run, he was sentenced in absentia to two years in a strict regime colony for slandering the armed forces.

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