Russia Subjecting 1.6 Million Ukrainian Children to Military Brainwashing: OSCE Report
Experts say the program includes weapons and drone training and has pushed young adults into conscription, which could amount to a crime against humanity.
- On Thursday, OSCE-mandated independent experts presented a report in Vienna finding that Russia has installed a systematic military indoctrination program for around 1.6 million children in occupied Ukrainian territories.
- This investigation is the fruit of the Moscow Mechanism, a process triggered by 41 OSCE states on May 14 to investigate grave human rights abuses in the conflict.
- French researcher Herve Ascensio said the report documents training camps teaching weapon and drone handling, which he characterized as potentially amounting to "the crime against humanity of persecution."
- According to Latvian expert Elina Steinerte, pro-Kremlin authorities sent draft letters to call up young Ukrainians in occupied territories at a younger age than in Russia itself.
- Kyiv estimates 20,610 children have been brought to Russian territory, prompting experts to recommend opening humanitarian corridors to help families reunite.
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A report released on Thursday revealed that 20,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken to the Russian Federation since February 2022, when President Vladimir Putin's government ordered the invasion of Ukraine. The document, presented by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), accuses the Russian State of maintaining a policy of erasing the national identity of minors and even forcing them to fight their compatriot…
Kiev claims that 20,610 children have been transferred to Russian territory - This system may fall under the crime of persecution, which is considered a crime against humanity.
Report on the militarization of Ukrainian children in the Occupied Territories reports massive human rights violations. Young recruits are sent to the war against Ukraine.
Approximately 1.6 million Ukrainian children living under Russian rule—in Crimea, in other occupied territories, or in Russia itself—are subjected to a system of indoctrination and militarization, which may amount to crimes against humanity. This is according to a report by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
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