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Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited two children in a Moscow hospital who were injured in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, awarded schoolchildren from Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, who helped evacuate people from the concert hall, and also laid flowers and toys to a makeshift memorial to the victims.

On March 22, two teenagers – a boy named Dima and a girl named Yasmina, both 12 years old, were brought to the Bashlyayeva Children's City Clinical Hospital after the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. Maria Lvova-Belova visited them on March 26 and talked with Chief Physician Ismail Osmanov.

Yasmina was transferred from intensive care to general ward, her condition is assessed as moderate. Psychologists are assisting the girl, and her relatives come to see her. Yasmina’s mother and her elder adult sister are currently undergoing treatment in hospitals in the Moscow Region.

Dima was admitted to the hospital in critical condition; his mother carried him in her arms out of Crocus City Hall. According to the physician in charge, the boy has stabilised, his condition is still serious, but with positive dynamics. Doctors are doing everything to help him recover as quickly as possible. His mom visits him every day. The boy's father died, having shielded his son with his body.

Maria Lvova-Belova took part in a ceremony at secondary school No. 19 in Krasnogorsk, where the children who helped evacuate people during the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall study and presented letters of gratitude to them. Islam Khalilov, 15, managed to lead more than a hundred people out of the building, and 14-year-old Artyom Donskov helped direct people to the right exits during the tragedy. The meeting observed a minute of silence in tribute to the memory of the victims.