Occupants agitate schoolchildren from TOT of Kherson region to get a profession in Russia

One hundred schoolchildren from the temporarily occupied Kherson region were sent by Russians to Tula to participate in the University Changes project.

According to the Center for National Resistance, this program involves "familiarizing" students with Russian higher education institutions and campaigning for further admission of Ukrainian children to these universities.

"The main goal of this initiative is to assimilate Ukrainian youth and replenish the Russian labor force," the Center added.

They noted that youth assimilation is not only a cultural but also an economic tool. After all, Russia is trying to attract Ukrainian young people to its labor market, which will make it possible to compensate for staff shortages, particularly in the context of constant mobilizations and economic difficulties.

The National Resistance Center also said that preparations for the export of Ukrainian children under the guise of rehabilitation have begun in the territories occupied by Russia. It is about the vacation period. The National Resistance Center emphasizes that these actions constitute a crime against Ukraine, as they violate the rights of children and youth to education in their native country and to preserve their cultural identity. Therefore, it is important that the international community recognize these actions as a gross violation of human rights and take measures to stop them.

Kateryna Rashevska, a lawyer at the Regional Center for Human Rights, also 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. 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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