Researchers identify a network of camps and facilities that stretches across Russia where thousands of children, the youngest just months old, are being held and trained in combat.
abc.net.au/news/russia-held-at-least-6000-ukrainian-children-reeducation-camps/101974962Russia has held at least 6,000 Ukrainian children — likely many more — in sites in Russian-held Crimea and Russia, where the primary purpose appears to be political re-education, according to a US-backed report.
"The primary purpose of the camp facilities we've identified appears to be political re-education," Nathaniel Raymond, one of the researchers, said in a briefing to reporters. Moscow has denied intentionally targeting civilians in what it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine, and has pushed back against previous claims it had forcibly moved Ukrainians.
He said it could also be evidence that Russia has committed genocide in Ukraine, since the transfer of children for purposes of changing, altering or eliminating national identity can constitute a component act of the crime of genocide.
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