Hidden tragedy: Ukrainian children lost to Russian indoctrination

Russians have been de facto at war with Ukraine since 2014. Military actions are a key part of their operations, but alongside them is the tragedy of Ukrainian children. The Pravda portal has obtained new information about the fate of those in the occupied territories.

In waging war, Russians use not only the typical tools of war—cannons, tanks, missiles, rifles. Over the years, they have always sought to destroy the national fabric in the societies they wanted to subjugate. Deportations to Siberia, massive relocations, changes to the borders of the republics within the USSR—all this happened in the past.

Now it turns out that the Russians are doing everything to ensure that Ukrainian children do not know their roots. Thousands of them have been relocated from the occupied territories deep into Russia. The fate of these children is unknown. Ukrainians have limited room to maneuver in this regard, and the Kremlin does not allow international organizations. Moscow is deliberately carrying out a process of denationalization to destroy the social fabric of Ukrainian society.

The Pravda portal has published new information about the fate of children in the territories occupied by Russia. According to the report, the invaders have created 12 youth movements that, among other things, spread propaganda. It is said that Russian occupiers are conducting propaganda activities among children and youth in the occupied cities of Melitopol and Berdyansk. "They are brainwashing our children," the Ukrainians are raging.

According to Pravda, in Putin's administration, a specific official travels once a week to the temporarily occupied territories and oversees the development of these movements. They are supposed to teach young Ukrainians, among other things, how to kill people.

The portal informs that law enforcement officials are working to identify those involved in this process to charge them in absentia and hold them accountable for indoctrinating children.

It is worth recalling that Human Rights Watch has detected numerous violations by Russia of children's right to education in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Moscow has implemented its own education system. Children are subjected to propaganda and undergo military training. Their return to the Ukrainian homeland may be difficult or even impossible.