Ombudsman: Children in occupied Ukraine 'forced to make trench candles'

The Kyiv Independent

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Ombudsman: Children in occupied Ukraine 'forced to make trench candles'

Russian authorities in occupied Ukraine are forcing students to make trench candles as part of their curriculum, Ukraine's Chief Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on April 23.In a post on Facebook, Lubinets said the manual labor was being presented as a "public initiative" but said it was just one of many measures used to prepare students for "war against their Homeland."Ukrainian children in occupied territories face efforts to suppress their iden…