More than 6,000 Ukrainian children in Russian re-education camps, NGO says

Summary:

A report released by the Conflict Observatory has revealed that over 6,000 Ukrainian children are being held in at least 43 facilities in Russia, primarily for the purpose of re-education.

The children are spread out between Russian-occupied Crimea and Russia's eastern coast.

The report found that two groups of children were in the system: children from Donetsk and Luhansk, and those referred to as evacuees from Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and in some cases Mariupol.

Children as young as four months old are being held and given a curriculum of Russian patriotic education; they are not allowed to speak Ukrainian and are learning patriotic songs and history lessons.

Some of the older boys are being given firearms and military vehicle training. Parents have reported that their children are experiencing immense trauma in these facilities.

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