Russian indoctrination targets Ukrainian youth in occupied zones
The Schema portal has published information about Ukrainian children in occupied territories being trained by Russians to fight against their own country. It also describes specific cases of individuals who have already been sent to war.
The Russians are waging war in many ways. Their actions have a dimension that is not only military. The invaders are attempting to denationalize Ukrainians by taking their children from occupied areas and sending them deep into Russia. Some of these young people are subjected to complete indoctrination.
Insider, citing reports from the Russian portal Schema, described the situation of Ukrainian children. The Russian Ministry of Defence has created an organization called "Junarmia," where young people from the occupied territories are sent.
Russians send indoctrinated Ukrainians to the front
Junarmia, a Russian military-patriotic organization, 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 organization is to brainwash Ukrainian children and inundate them with propaganda so they side with the Russian invader. Among other things, children are taught to shoot machine guns and are 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 and has even received the Zhukov medal for his activities.
One television station reported that Ilja's father was in the military, so Ilja wanted to follow in his father's footsteps from childhood. After 2014, when Crimea came under Russian control, Junarmia appeared there. Ilja joined the organization 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 organization permanently operates in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. In this way, the Russians are preparing children for the ongoing war and perhaps for another conflict they might instigate in the future.
