Investigation uncovers documents and satellite imagery that confirm children being taken to sites for patriotic indoctrination, weapons training and combat drills
Russia is running an extensive network of more than 200 camps to re-educate, Russify and militarise Ukrainian children, a new investigation has found.
The facilities, across Russia and occupied Ukraine, include camps as well as schools, military bases, medical facilities, religious sites and universities.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukrainian children have been taken to the sites and subjected to programmes that include patriotic indoctrination, combat drills, paratrooper training and even classes on how to assemble drones for the Russian armed forces.
The report – Ukraine’s Stolen Children: Inside Russia’s Network of Re-Education and Militarization, by the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health – found that at least 130 of the camps have been involved in re-education, including efforts to indoctrinate children with pro-Russia narratives.
