US EditionRussia ‘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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Indoctrination, military training force, dormitories and camps... A study by Yale desizes the lives of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted since the Russian invasion of 2022.
Kidnapped Ukrainian children are being put into factories to build drones and weapons for the Russian army, according to a report from Yale University. In over 200 locations, the children are also being indoctrinated to live by Russian values, writes The Telegraph.
Russia brainwashing Ukrainian children in 200+ camps, organising grenade-throwing competitions: Report
Russia has been taking Ukrainian children to camps where they are being taught military skills to fight for Moscow, a Yale School of Public Health study has claimed.
A survey by Yale University provides insights into Russia's dealings with Ukrainian children. They appear to be housed in special facilities to produce military equipment.
According to a US study, Russia is expanding the coercive measures to re-education of abducted Ukrainian children.
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