Russia forces Ukrainian children to attend 'military patriotic education' camps in Crimea: defense official
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- 28 Apr 2023
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People light candles in Schuman Roundabout, the heart of the EU district in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 24, 2023, in protest of Russia's treatment of Ukrainian children. Thierry Monasse/Getty Images
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Atop official on Thursday accused Russia of intensifying its efforts to force children in occupied areas of Ukraine to receive "military patriotic education" by sending them to camps in Crimea in a move to enhance its propaganda campaign.
Moscow has been repeatedly accused of targeting children in its war against Ukraine by illegally deporting them to Russia, escalating fostering and adoption programs, and forcing children to attend "re-education" camps in occupied areas – prompting the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant last month for President Vladimir Putin and Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights to the U.N. Maria Lvova-Belova.
But on Thursday, Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar accused Russia of further "intensifying" its efforts to plant "aggressive Russian ideology" in the minds of Ukrainian children.
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"A powerful propaganda campaign has been launched," she said in a Telegram post Thursday, adding that Russia was sending "schoolchildren from the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories to specially equipped camps in the temporarily occupied Crimea."
"In these camps, it is envisaged that children will live in spartan conditions and carry out with them intensive activities of the so-called ‘military-patriotic education’ under the leadership of servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation," Malyar added. Read More…
