Dec. 1, 2024, 6:29 p.m.
In the annexed Crimea, children in the Russian-occupiedArtek recreation center are forced to spend at least six hours a week producing aid for the Russian army.
According to the Center of National Resistance, created by the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces, the children assemble drones, weave camouflage nets, make trench candles, and raise money for medicines.
"The other day, the children of Artek had to collect 223 kilograms of olives to send to the enemy army ," the Center for National Resistance reports.
<span>So instead of resting, the children have to work compulsory hours. </span>
<span>"At least 6 hours a week," the Center says.</span>
Earlier, <b>Kateryna Rashevska</b>, a lawyer at the Regional Center for Human Rights, said that the re-education of Ukrainian teenagers and youth is very well integrated into the policy of the Russian Federation, and it is carried out by bodies of different levels - federal, regional, occupation and even Ukrainian collaborators:
"This is a set of measures aimed at militarizing and politically indoctrinating Ukrainian children through both formal and non-formal education. Both in the occupied territory and in the territory of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus."
Earlier, the "deputies" of the so-called "regional duma" of Kherson region presented a draft law "On spiritual, moral and patriotic education in Kherson region". The initiators of this bill were "deputies of the Kherson Regional Duma" from United Russia. According to the Kremlin's proxies in the occupied territories of Kherson region, "in the era of global confrontation with the West, the struggle is for the minds and hearts of people. Therefore, through patriotic education and strengthening traditional spiritual and moral values, they plan to unite Russian society and strengthen national identity<i>. </i>That is, to destroy the Ukrainian identity.
Previously, the occupation authorities of the Kherson region forced children to tear up the graves of victims of Nazi mass shootings in 1941-1943 near Henichesk. The invaders called this involvement of schoolchildren in the exhumation of human remains"patriotic education." In addition to children, heavy machinery was also involved in the "search work," which could simply destroy the burial site.
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