Russian indoctrination: Ukrainian kids turned into soldiers
The Schema portal has published information about Ukrainian children in occupied territories who Russians are training to fight against their own country. The article also describes specific cases of individuals who have already been sent to war.
10:51 AM EST, November 17, 2024
The Russians are waging war in multiple ways, with actions that are not solely military. The invaders are attempting to denationalize Ukrainians by taking children from occupied areas and sending them deep into Russia. Some of these young people are subjected to complete indoctrination.
Insider, citing reports from the Russian portal Schema, detailed the situation of Ukrainian children. The Russian Ministry of Defense has created an organization called Junarmia, where young people from the occupied territories are sent.
Russians send indoctrinated Ukrainians to the front
Junarmia, a Russian military-patriotic organization, sends children to patriotic camps. It has been operating in Crimea since 2016 and in the occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions since November 2022. The organization's goal is to brainwash Ukrainian children and feed them propaganda so that they align with the Russian invaders. Children are taught, among other things, to shoot machine guns and are prepared to fight against their own country.
The Ukrainian hacker group KibOrg, whose reports are published by Schema, obtained information about specific cases of Ukrainian children who have already been sent to fight. Among them is 23-year-old Ilja Zozulski, originally from the Crimean village of Poltavka. He joined Junarmia as a teenager. Years later, Zozulski became an artilleryman fighting in Ukraine. He has even received the Zhukov medal for his activities.
One television station reported that Ilja's father was in the military, so he wanted to follow in his footsteps from childhood. After 2014 Crimea came under Russian control, Junarmia was established there. Ilja joined the organization and became an instructor. He is now one of 50 instructors fighting in the war against their own country.
Unfortunately, Junarmia is expanding. According to media reports, the organization permanently operates in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. Through this, the Russians are preparing children for the ongoing war and perhaps for another conflict they might instigate in the future.
