New evidence now appears that these young men, as soon as they become adult, recruit in Russian military units and send to the first front lines. There they potentially face their friends, fathers or brothers. Although the exact number of recruited is not known, some estimates speak of thousands, index transmits.
Ukrainian state officials claim that forcibly sending teenagers to war have two goals of Kremlin. The first is to address the crisis with manpower in the military, given that Russia suffered over a million victims during the war. The second goal is a brutal form of psychological installment against the Ukrainian people, allegedly by the personal order of the Russian president.
Andrij Jermak, Head of the President of Zellenic, said the Ukrainian Government has strong evidence of this practice, including recruitment documents. Teen bodies are also found on battlefields. “We have evidence of that, yes,” Jermak confirmed.
“The goal of Putin is that Ukraine does not exist. Russians want to destroy the new generation of Ukrainians and make soldiers who will run against the country where they were born. It’s awful.”
Institute for Humanitarian Research of Yale University, the world’s leading authority when it comes to the Russian child kidnapping program, also explores numerous charges on the forced sending of former children in the fight. Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of the Institute, said his team works on the collection and presentation of documented evidence.
“We know that the older children are accommodated in cadet schools where training with weapons and military vehicles pass. There is only one reason for it, and that is certainly not parade,” Raymond emphasized.
The kidnappings of Ukrainian children began in 2014. years, after the Russian invasion of Donbas and Crimea – at first from the orphanage, and later directly from families. The program became systemic and massive after full invasion 2022. years. While some children were adopted in Russian families, independent researchers have discovered that the vast majority – about 95 per cent – sends to the overdog camps and then to military training centers.
The program supervises the FSB, Russian State Security Service, which shows how much the importance of Putin attaches. Due to mass abductions, which represent an obvious violation of the Geneva Convention, the International Criminal Court issued 2023. Putin’s arrest warrant and his commissioner for children’s rights, Marija Lvove-Bele.
One of the abducted and Vlad Rudenko (19), which Russian soldiers took from Herson in October 2022. year, he spent 18 months in the overdue camp, and then transferred to the Maritime Academy where he passed the fighting training. Last year, his mother managed to save him and smuggle back over the front line.
“Every morning we had to sing a Russian anthem, then they had physical training and learning to shoot,” Rudenko said. “Those aged 16 and 17 were exercising rifles, and the older right weapon. As he was afraid of himself, I was all able to send us to the war. Fatherly, because now there are Ukrainians who warfare against his own people.”
President Zelenki launched the Global Campaign “Bring Kids Back” to draw attention to these crimes. Returning all abductees asked the children as a red line in any peace negotiations. It was recently discovered that Russia offered the exchange of abducted children for their prisoners of war, which Ukraine immediately rejected, considering it a dangerous precedent that would turn children into hostages.
Nathaniel Raymond concludes: “I am not sure that Europeans and Americans understand the true nature of what happens here. This is a systematic, industrialized child trafficking … probably the greatest abduction of children in the World War II.”
(Vijesti.ba)
