Ukraine Identifies Persons and Organizations Behind Russian Child Militarization
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine (HUR) has published information about seven individuals and three organizations involved in the militarization of Ukrainian children in temporarily occupied territories, as well as in the illegal placement of these children in Russian families.
The Gaze reports on it, referring to the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine on Telegram.
The data is posted in the “Child Abductors” section on the War&Sanctions portal and concerns individuals and structures that facilitate the illegal placement of children in Russian families and conduct their military-patriotic and ideological education.
Russia continues to pursue a deliberate policy of cultural genocide, attempting to integrate children from the occupied territories into Russian society, destroying their national identity and imposing a distorted reality.
“By destroying their national identity and imposing a distorted reality, Russia seeks to legalize the occupation in the eyes of future generations and expects that in a few years these children will replenish the mobilization resource for future Kremlin wars,” the statement said.
Among those named in the publication are the heads of the sports clubs “Sila Donbasu” and “Spartak,” representatives of the “Yunarmiya” movement, the occupation and regional authorities of the Russian Federation, as well as the head of a project to promote the adoption of Ukrainian children.
The Office of the Prosecutor General emphasized the importance of identifying the organizers of crimes, noting that this is “the first step towards establishing justice, bringing them to justice, and ensuring that they face the consequences for their crimes.”
The Gaze wrote earlier that Russia continues to militarize its youth: even children are sent to military-patriotic camps, where they are prepared for future military service.