Russia ‘forcing Ukraine children into re-education and arms production’: Report
Russia operates a vast network of over 200 facilities for abducted Ukrainian children, with about 20% undergoing military training, according to Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.
- Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab reported on September 16, 2025, that Russia has abducted over 35,000 Ukrainian children and placed them in more than 210 facilities across Russia and occupied territories.
- The abductions began after Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022 and include forced deportations in violation of the Geneva Conventions, although Russia denies taking children against their will.
- These children undergo military training, re-education, and indoctrination programs including combat drills, drone assembly, patriotic lectures, and are held in diverse sites like camps, cadet schools, orphanages, and military bases.
- The report states this is the largest number of locations identified to date, with about 130 sites for re-education and 39 for military training, and that over 1,600 children have been returned so far.
- These findings have supported ICC arrest warrants against Putin and Russia's Commissioner for Children's Rights, highlighting an unprecedented system of child militarization and raising calls for global unity to repatriate the children.
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Inside 200 Russian camps for ‘brainwashing’ Ukrainian children
Russia has more than 200 different camps for 're-education' and militarisation of Ukrainian children, a report by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) has found. These sites are across Russia and in occupied areas that hold Ukrainian children. Moscow is believed to have illegally transferred several Ukrainian children since its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
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