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March 15 (CNN) - Russia’s war machine is going to horrific lengths to try to erase Ukrainian identity and bolster its own military ranks – by deporting Ukrainian teenagers to Russia, indoctrinating them with propaganda, and attempting to conscript them into the Russian armed forces to fight against their own country.
Numerous credible firsthand accounts have emerged of Russian authorities transporting Ukrainian children without parents or guardians from occupied areas like Mariupol to cities across Russia. There, the children are placed with Russian foster families, forced to attend pro-Russian schools, made to watch nationalistic videos praising Vladimir Putin, and taught that Ukraine does not truly exist as a nation.
One such teenager, 18-year-old Bohdan Yermokhin from Mariupol, told CNN he was flown to Moscow, given a Russian passport, and sent to a camp where “flag-waving staff praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and tried to teach him nationalistic songs.” He said in the fall of 2023, shortly before his 18th birthday, he received a summons from the Russian military attempting to conscript him.
Yermokhin’s experience aligns with reports from Ukrainian officials who say Russia’s efforts target teenagers specifically so they can be turned into soldiers once they reach age 18. “All Ukrainian teenagers held in Russia, when they turn 18, they are put on a (recruitment) list of Russian military,” Ukraine’s human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets told CNN.
Forcing members of an occupied population to serve in the occupying power’s armed forces is a violation of the Geneva Conventions and constitutes a war crime according to Human Rights Watch. But that has not stopped Russia from pursuing this reprehensible strategy.
The systemized campaign begins by opening Russian government offices in occupied areas to start replacing Ukrainian culture and services with Russian ones, according to Lubinets. Schools are then forced to use Russian textbooks that falsely claim Ukraine never truly existed. Residents who do not accept a Russian passport are denied basic rights and services.
“And the next step is mobilization. All men in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine are put in a special recruitment database for the Russian military,” Lubinets said.
Other teenagers have similar horrifying stories. 16-year-old Artem from Kharkiv said he was taken by Russian soldiers from school in 2022 along with 12 other children. They were given military-style uniforms with the “Z” symbol supporting Russia’s invasion. Teachers threatened punishment if they refused to sing the Russian national anthem.
“I really thought that this was it and that they gave me the uniform because I might be sent to the Russian army. It was scary,” Artem told CNN.
Both teenagers were eventually able to return to Ukraine with help from authorities and aid groups. But Ukrainian officials estimate over 20,000 children have been deported, with over 2,100 still missing. Many remain at risk of being indoctrinated and conscripted by Russia’s forces.
CNN in major supporter of the US Democratic Party and against Republicans Friday, 15 March 2024 07:12 PM
US Democrat Party hate Russia. They are especially fond of Israel too. This puff piece from CNN is from news sources which is 100% percent against the US Republican party and many other rational voices. CNN does not talk of the all the cluster bombing that the US provided for which Russia then retaliated by doing their own cluster bombs. One of the biggest hypocrite news site in the US. Look at GroundNews for a comparison.
M Fernando Friday, 15 March 2024 07:31 PM
SriLanka is now obliged to toe the line of the Batahira Mithuras so we have to publish what they want us to publish, think the way they want us to think, ban what they want us to ban, tax what they want us to tax and permit what they want us to permit.
Gert Jan, the Netherlands Friday, 15 March 2024 09:06 PM
The truth hurts, but it is a fact that during the Russian- Ukrainian war Russia has forcibly transferred almost 20 thousand Ukrainian children to areas under it's control. This is not only on CNN news, but also for quite a while on other independent news channels.
Gert Jan, the Netherlands Friday, 15 March 2024 09:11 PM
Also GroundNews confirmes the abduction of almost 20 thousand Ukrainian children by Russia.
KD Friday, 15 March 2024 08:07 PM
US propaganda finding its way into DM.
Joshua Friday, 15 March 2024 09:03 PM
Putin has a special place on hell
why share stupidity Friday, 15 March 2024 09:05 PM
What kind of nonsense publishing here?? The United States no longer knows how to explain to its taxpayers the costs of arming its failed operation against Russia? But why do Sri Lankans need this?
Sokrates Friday, 15 March 2024 09:31 PM
George Soros spent hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars in bribes to build his own "network of media ties" so as to manipulate public opinion. He has direct ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets - including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, CNN and ABC.
HARD TRUTH Saturday, 16 March 2024 08:45 AM
WE DID THE SAME THING 2009. MAY 18.
Sokrates Saturday, 16 March 2024 09:44 AM
@Sokrates the IMPOSTOR. Why are you damn cowardly crook writing comments under my name that are completely contrary to my opinion. Do you not have enough balls to write under your own name or are you a Russian troll ? (Russia is known for its cyber war by spreading fake news around the world.) That would of course be a great improvement for me and my comments if it poses a threat to Russia's propaganda. Or do you want simply to damage my reputation? Besides that, this report is true. An international arrest warrant has been issued against Putin for the abduction of Ukrainian children and something like this is being closely examined. Incidentally, it is not only CNN that reports on these Russian war crimes, but also very reputable media. As I read from many comments here, Ameen Izzadeen's brainwashing has had an effect on many Sri Lankans.
Navi Saturday, 16 March 2024 01:17 PM
This is US propaganda absorbed by daily Mirror because the Jurnos
Tissa Fernando Sunday, 17 March 2024 06:26 PM
This is war to test war machines and ti naje defence contractors richer un both sides. But it destroys the earth's one of the best habitable areas. It is funny that big countries are spending billions in finding out different planets for people to live while at the same time destroying what they already have.
for pseudo Socrates Monday, 18 March 2024 07:55 AM
@Socrates who does not consider himself an impostor)) how funny you are! are you serious about your reputation? Lol. The great philosopher of the ancient world, Socrates, is turning over in his grave at your stupid comments Ahahahaha
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