On August 4–6, Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Lugansk and Donetsk people’s republics.

On July 12–14, Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Donetsk People’s Republic. She met with the Head of the Republic, held a number of events as part of the Into the Hands of Children campaign, handed humanitarian relief over to medical institutions and to individual families, and brought children to Russia for rehabilitation and placement with families. 

Vladimir Putin sent greetings to Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin on the Day of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

On April 6–7, Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR) people’s republics. She discussed issues pertaining to children’s aid with the republics’ heads and delivered humanitarian cargo to medical institutions in Donbass and to a border distribution centre near Mariupol as part of the Into Children’s Hands campaign.