Russians take children from occupied territories to cadet corps

Hanna Maliar, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defence, has reported that the Russian invaders have started to open so-called cadet corps in the occupied territories, where they force parents to send their children. Source: Maliar on Telegram  Quote from Maliar: "The Russian occupation administration has launched an ideological campaign to force parents to send their children to study in the so-called cadet corps."

Details: Maliar said that a similar military educational institution has opened this year in the city of Starobilsk in Luhansk Oblast. Cadet corps are also planned to be opened in the Skadovsk, Kalanchak, Novotroitsk and Henichesk districts of Kherson Oblast.

Maliar added that active propaganda for convicts to join Russian private military companies continues in detention facilities in the temporarily occupied territories. Criminals are accepted regardless of what criminal articles they were convicted under, their age, state of health and gender.

Background: 

• In December 2022, it was reported that the Russian invaders in the occupied territories of Ukraine are creating so-called "youth movements" to brainwash Ukrainian children, and also recruit teenagers to militaristic "iunarm?ia" (young army) groups.
• On 8 January, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said that the Russians had tried to use Ukrainian children to locate strategically important targets through a mobile game.

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