In occupied Crimea, Russians train teenagers for war

In the temporarily occupied Crimea, the Russian occupiers organized a ten-day military training for children and teenagers, where they were taught to shoot, fly attack drones and undergo paratrooper training.

According to Holos Kryma, the third shift of the so-called "STORM Crimea tactical training school" has ended in occupied Bakhchisarai. About 120 participants were involved in the military camp, including schoolchildren and students from the peninsula, as well as young people from the regions of Russia and the occupied part of the Kherson region.

The training lasted from March 27 to April 5. The program of the camp included preparing young people for participation in hostilities. During the classes, the teenagers were taught firearms training, tactical medicine, how to operate attack drones, as well as parachuting and mountain training skills.

In addition to military training, representatives of Russian law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Security Service of Russia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, held so-called career guidance meetings with the participants.

The event was organized by the Krympatriotcenter, controlled by the occupation administration, and the Russian military movement Unarmia. According to the organizers, the purpose of such camps is to prepare young people for service in the army of the aggressor country.

The juvenile prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's Office have already served notices of suspicion to eight Ukrainian citizens who, as part of an organized group, ensured the functioning of the Yunarmiya in the temporarily occupied territories. Under the guise of"patriotic education," children were taught how to handle weapons, tactical actions, and military marches and oaths of allegiance to Russia were held. At the same time, there was active propaganda for service in the armed forces of the Russian Federation, which was presented as a promising and socially beneficial path.

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