Masha Moskalyova will not be given back to her mother. They are looking for a surrogate family

Schoolgirl Masha Moskalyova, whose father Alexei Moskalyov was previously sentenced to two years on the article about discrediting the Russian army, will not be returned to her mother. They are looking for a surrogate family. The ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova stated this, reports the Russian service of the BBC.

Lvova-Belova claims that she went to see Moskaleva in a shelter in the city of Efremov, Tula region, and talked with her. According to her, now a 13-year-old schoolgirl, who drew an anti-war picture in class last year, is being selected by a family for temporary custody.

Moskaleva’s mother Olga Sytchikhina recently announced that she is ready to take her daughter home. She has not raised a child since the age of two and now lives in the Tambov Region with her 17-year-old daughter from her second marriage. However, according to the Russian ombudsman, there is no question of this now, because initially Sytchikhina herself refused to take her daughter for education after the arrest of her ex-husband and wrote an application to place the child in a shelter. Lvova-Belova claims that Sytchikhina promised to visit her daughter several times, but never got in touch with her. Other relatives of Moskaleva also did not take custody of the child.

• In the spring of last year, Masha Moskalyova, a schoolgirl from the Tula region, drew an anti-war picture in class. The drawing teacher told the school principal about this, and turned to the police. The Moskalyovs’ apartment was searched.
• In the father’s social networks, the police found comments in support of Ukraine, as well as caricatures of Russian President Vladimir Putin. After that, Alexey Moskalyov was first reported under the article of the Administrative Code on the discrediting of the Russian army, fined 32 thousand rubles, and then a criminal case was opened on the same charge.
• On March 28, the Efremovsky district court sentenced Moskalyov to two years in a general regime colony. The defendant was not present at the hearing, as he had escaped from house arrest the day before. Moskalyov was later detained in Minsk by the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs.