Russia has taken at least 6,000 Ukrainian children to camps for "re-education"
Some children are adopted and sent to local schools
What happened? Russia has taken at least 6,000 Ukrainian children to camps for "political re-education".
Source. Report by the Conflict Observatory and the Yale Laboratory for the Humanities.
Details. The researchers collected information about children aged 4 months to 17 years who were taken to russia after February 24, 2022. They found that the aggressor government controls at least 43 institutions where Ukrainian children are "re-educated".
In addition, children from at least two camps were illegally adopted in russia. At least 20 of them ended up in families in moscow Oblast, where they were enrolled in local schools.
"Numerous camps approved by the russian federation are promoted as 'integration programmes' with the apparent goal of integrating children from Ukraine into the russian government's vision of national culture, history and society," the researchers note.
Experts have identified several dozen federal, regional and local figures directly involved in the "re-education" of children. According to the researchers, 12 officials who coordinate the work of the institutions are neither under U.S. nor under international sanctions.
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