Putin crony ‘illegally adopts’ two young children from Ukraine | World News [Video]

A scandal has deepened over a prominent pro-Putin Russian politician, 71, who ‘kidnapped’ two children from occupied Ukraine.

Sergey Mironov, leader of the Fair Russia party, is accused of a war crime after he and his fifth wife removed a ten-month-old girl and a two-year-old boy.

The politician ‘adopted’ and renamed the girl Marina Mrionova from an orphanage with his wife Irina Varlamova, 56, before changing her birth certificate to make it seem as though she was born near Moscow.

An investigation has now revealed the girl, whose real name is Margarita, has a legal Ukrainian guardian who is now living in exile from the war in Greece with the child’s full sibling, an elder sister named Anna.

Ukrainian officials are demanding that the politician and his wife return the girl so she can be reunited with her blood sister.

The boy taken by the politician’s wife was brought to Russia but after less than a week …