Network of 200 camps used to 'turn Ukrainian children into Russians'

Russia is running a network of more than 200 camps to reeducate, Russify and militarise Ukrainian children, an investigation has found.

- Liz Cookman

The facilities across Russia and occupied regions of Ukraine include camps as well as schools, military bases, medical facilities, religious sites and universities.

Since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukrainian children have been taken to the sites and subjected to programmes that include patriotic indoctrination, combat drills, paratrooper training and even classes on how to assemble drones for the Russian armed forces.

The report - Ukraine's Stolen Children: Inside Russia's Network of Re-Education and Militarization, by the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health - found at least 130 of the camps had been involved in reeducation, including efforts to indoctrinate children with pro-Russia narratives.