Children from the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region underwent regular military training from the Russian occupiers, reported Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets.
Points of attention
- Russian occupiers are militarizing Ukrainian children in the Zaporizhzhia region, violating their rights and promoting military aggression.
- Children undergo military training, including handling weapons, wearing uniforms, and being indoctrinated to hate Ukraine.
- Militarization of children is a grave violation of their rights and requires the international community to take decisive action against Russia.
- The abduction of Ukrainian children by Russia is a serious issue, with real stories of abduction, captivity, and separation from families coming to light.
- Documentaries like 'Mutilated Childhood' shed light on the plight of these children and the urgent need for protection of children's rights in conflict zones.
Russia continues to militarize Ukrainian children
According to Lubinets, such militarization is a violation of children's rights.
The monitoring of the occupied territories showed that the Russian "mentors" taught the children how to handle the machine gun and practiced shooting with them from different positions.
The occupiers also force Ukrainian children to wear uniforms and march under the Russian tricolor.
The occupiers initially recruited them to join militarized "patriotic" movements such as "Unarmy", cadet classes, in order to instill in them a new reality over time: to hate everything Ukrainian and to fight for the enemy Russian.
Dmytro Lubinets
Ombudsman of Ukraine
Ukrainian children become a tool in the great game of the Russian Federation, where childhood no longer matters.
According to him, militarization is a serious violation of children's rights.
I call on the international community for more active actions and appropriate legal consequences for the Russian Federation! Evil must be punished!
What is important to know about the abduction of Ukrainian children by Russia
The Online.UA documentary "Mutilated Childhood" tells about Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
The film contains real stories of children and their families who suffered from Russia's war against Ukraine, comments of leading scientists, psychologists, lawyers and experts on the protection of children's rights.
The heroes of the tape went through Russian captivity, torture, abduction to a health camp, some were separated from their parents during the so-called filtering measures.
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