Russia has network of 200 camps for 'brainwashing' Ukrainian children - report
Source: The Guardian
Russia is running an extensive network of more than 200 camps to re-educate, Russify and militarise Ukrainian children, a new investigation has found.
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Since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukrainian children have been taken to the sites and subjected to programmes that include patriotic indoctrination, combat drills, paratrooper training and even classes on how to assemble drones for the Russian armed forces.
The report – Ukraine’s Stolen Children: Inside Russia’s Network of Re-Education and Militarization, by the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health – found that at least 130 of the camps have been involved in re-education, including efforts to indoctrinate children with pro-Russia narratives.
It found at least 39 of the facilities operate militarisation programmes where children as young as eight are put through weapons training, grenade-throwing competitions and tactical medicine courses.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/16/russia-has-network-of-200-camps-for-brainwashing-ukrainian-children-report
The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) has concluded that children from Ukraine have been taken to at least 210 facilities inside Russia and temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This report is the fourth in a series by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab (Yale HRL) examining Russia’s transfer, re-education, and militarization of children from Ukraine since 2022.
Children from Ukraine were subjected to re-education at more than half (62.9%) of the facilities and underwent militarization in at least 18% of facilities identified by HRL. More than half of the facilities which children from Ukraine were taken are managed by the Russian government.
HRL can conclude that Russia is operating a potentially unprecedented system of large-scale re-education, military training, and dormitory facilities capable of holding tens of thousands of children from Ukraine for long periods of time. While this study does not answer the question of how many children from Ukraine are currently in Russia’s custody, it does reveal the logistical and operational capacity committed to Russifying children taken from their home communities in Ukraine. This is the first detailed effort to study the number, types, and roles of locations utilized by Russia’s federal government, particularly regarding re-education and militarization, in efforts to Russify Ukraine’s children.
https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnood/news-article/ukraines-stolen-children-inside-russias-network-of-re-education-and-militarization/
Full report (PDF): https://files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/e6294def-3f80-4d71-9cc7-91f6af70a523
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