Russian legislator denies adopting girl taken from Ukrainian children’s home

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Sergey Mironov (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

A Russian legislator and staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin has denied media allegations that he adopted a missing two-year-old girl who was removed from a Ukrainian children’s home.

Sergey Mironov, 70, the leader of political party A Just Russia, said on social media that Ukrainian security services and their western partners had concocted a “fake” report to discredit Russian patriots like himself.