Putin warns in a speech in Moscow about "the most dangerous decade since the world war" (Reuters)
The speaker of the lower house in the Russian parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said today (Sunday) that the country will ban Russian women from acting as surrogate mothers for foreigners from abroad. This announcement was made against the background of Mother's Day, which began today in the country.
According to Volodin, about 45 thousand babies born by surrogate mothers have been transferred abroad in recent years.
In Telegram he wrote that this is "child trafficking which is unacceptable" and that "everything must be done to protect children".
He added that they will approve the decision in early December.
Russian lawmakers passed the bill almost unanimously in first reading in May.
If it passes the third and final reading, the law will be reviewed by the upper house of the parliament, and signed by President Vladimir Putin.
"We must protect them."
Russian children undergo military training in Russia (Photo: Reuters)
In the past, the Ukrainian government claimed that Russia had deported more than 12 thousand Ukrainian children since the first invaded it last February.
She also accused her of having killed 440 Ukrainian children during the war, and that hundreds more are missing.
Last Friday, Putin met with a group of mothers of Russian soldiers, who were sent to fight in Ukraine.
At the meeting, the president told them that their sons "did not die in vain".
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