Indoctrinated youth: Ukrainian children trained by Russians
The Schema portal has published information about Ukrainian children in the occupied territories who Russians are training to fight against their own country. The article also describes specific cases of individuals who have already gone to war.
The Russians are waging war in numerous ways, extending beyond mere military actions. The invaders are attempting to denationalise Ukrainians. They take children from the occupied areas and send them deep into Russia. Some of the youth are subjected to complete indoctrination.
Insider, referencing reports from the Russian portal Schema, described the condition of Ukrainian children. The Russian Ministry of Defence has created an organisation called Junarmia, to which young people from the occupied territories are sent.
Russians send indoctrinated Ukrainians to the front
Junarmia, a Russian military-patriotic organisation, takes children to patriotic camps. It has been operating in Crimea since 2016, and in the occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions since November 2022. The goal of the organisation is to brainwash Ukrainian children and feed them propaganda so thoroughly that they align with the Russian invader. Children are taught, among other things, to shoot machine guns. They are being prepared to fight against their own country.
The Ukrainian hacker group KibOrg, whose reports are published by Schema, obtained information about specific cases of Ukrainian children who have already been sent to fight. Among them is 23-year-old Ilja Zozulski, originally from the Crimean village of Poltavka. He joined Junarmia as a teenager. Now, years later, Zozulski has become an artilleryman. He is fighting in Ukraine. He has even received the Zhukov medal for his activities.
One television station reported that Ilja's father was in the military, so he wanted to follow in his footsteps from childhood. After 2014, when Crimea came under Russian control, Junarmia appeared there. Ilja joined the organisation and became an instructor. He is now one of 50 instructors fighting in the war against their own country.
Unfortunately, Junarmia is expanding - according to media reports, the organisation is permanently operating in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. In this way, the Russians are preparing children for the ongoing war and perhaps for another conflict of which they will be the instigators.
