At least 6,000 Ukrainian children have been taken to re-education camps in Russia, according to a report by the Human Rights Lab at Yale University.
According to the report, several hundred of the children were left in Russia for weeks or even months beyond the return date promised to their parents. The researchers also discovered that the Russian authorities accelerated adoption processes for Ukrainian children.
The authors of the report found that the children, who live in the occupied territories of Ukraine, were taken to 43 camps throughout Russia where they received pro-Russian education and paramilitary training. Among other things, the children were taken to heritage sites of the Great Patriotic War and to meetings with veterans.
"Paramilitary training".
Ukrainian children with the representative of the federal government and two senior Chechen officials, photo: from the report
Reminder: one of the main reasons given for the "necessity" of invading Ukraine was the outrageous argument that the government in Kiev is "Nazi", while Russia is actually the USSR fighting the battles of 1941-1945 again.
The document states that cases were recorded in which the parents were required to sign consent to the taking of their children, with the hope that they would be returned.
There were cases when the children were returned at the promised time, but in many cases parents who asked to find out what was happening with their children were turned away.
In one case, the director of the camp refused to return the child to Ukraine "because there is a war there".
Another claimed that the boy is staying with his parents in the city of Isium "only after Russia reoccupies it" (Ukraine liberated the city in September; D.B.). Another boy was not allowed to return "because of his pro-Ukrainian views."
It was also found that many parents were required to come and pick up the child themselves.
Relatives or authorized representatives were not given such an option, and in many cases collecting the children became an impossible task.
Among the reasons for this - the difficulty of moving from Ukraine to Russia, the high price of travel, the ban on men aged 18 to 60 leaving Ukraine and sometimes because of the distance to the camp.
So, for example, one of the camps is in the Magdan region - 6,230 km from Ukraine.
The researcher who supervised the writing of the report, Nathaniel Raymond, said that the Russian activity is a flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions and in many cases constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity. Ned Price, a spokesman for the State Department that provided funding for the preparation of the report, said: The evidence that reveals the Kremlin's intention to erase Ukrainian identity, history and culture. The effects of the Putin war on the children of Ukraine will be felt for generations to come."
In response to the report, the Russian embassy in the US said: "Russia accepted the children who had to flee with their families from the bombings. We are doing our best to keep the children with their families, and in cases of the death of the parents or relatives - to transfer them to custody."
By the way, the government in Kiev recently said that the number of children deported to Russia is about 15 thousand.
Some were used for sexual purposes.
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