The United States denounced that more than 6,000 Ukrainian children had been sent by Russia to re-education camps

More than 6,000 Ukrainian minersaged between four months and 17 years, were sent by Vladimir Putin’s troops to re-education camps oh well Russian adoption systemaccording to a study by Yale University Research Laboratoryfinanced by the state department from the United States.

According to this study, Russia sent more than 6,000 miners from Ukraine to these fields or other facilities from the start of the russian invasion of Ukrainian territory February 24 of 2022.

The expert Nathanael Raymondexecutive director of this American laboratory known in English as the Yale HRLsaid at a press conference that have evidence that Russia violated the Geneva Convention and “other elements” of international law on rights of minors and their protection in armed conflict.

According to research, Moscow detains Ukrainian minors in 43 centers, of which 41 have been used in the past for kids summer camps.

Raymond also clarified that “the 78% of these establishments practice some form of re-education for minors Ukrainians, mainly from regions like Donetsk and Lugansk”, in eastern Ukraine.

He added that there are other minors who have confirmed that they have been placed in the adoption system and in russian orphanages.

The expert warned against the “massive” geographic reach of these Russian activities, because the centers where the Ukrainian minors are sent are in various places, such as the peninsula of Crimea -occupied by Russia-, Moscow, the Black Sea and Siberia.

There is even such a facility in The heirson the Russian Pacific coast, “closer to the continental United States than to Moscow“said Raymond.

The expert explained that there are two groups of miners: on the one hand, there are from Donetsk and Luhanskwho constitute the bulk of the 6,000 children, whose number has been estimated on the basis of reports of transfers to re-education camps.

He second belongs to what Russia calls “evacuees” from Kherson, Kharkov there Zaporizhiawhich, according to Raymond, is put in the Russian adoption system.

The American expert pointed out that they were able to identify some 32 centers where they are carried out “systematic rehabilitation effortsto “expose” Ukrainian minors to a military educationin addition to a Russian university education and a cultural patriotism.

Another of the leaders of the American study, Caitlin Howarthexplained that military training is not about miners sitting in a classroom listening to what their instructors are saying, but rather “about handling of firearms”.

“We have video and photographic images (of minors) crossing roads with obstacles, in physical training, driving vehicles and weapons…”, he listed.

Raymond concluded that with these acts, Russia is taking a comprehensive approach at the government level to re-educate, resettle and conduct forced adoptions of Ukrainian minors.

“This corresponds exactly to what some of the first trials of Nazis before the Nuremberg tribunal assumed. There is no doubt that there is no confusion in international law: Russia’s actions are illegal and may constitute a war crime and a crime against humanity“, he assured.

Last January, the HIM He called for the bombing of residential buildings by Russian troops to be investigated as a war crime.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky accused Russia to try to hide their war crimes from the United Nations Security Council by disinformation campaigns within the corps.

The targeting of kyiv came after the Russian representative at the UN, Vasily Nebenziaassured that the Ukrainian government was preparing initiatives to “completely eliminate” the Church Ukrainian Orthodox.

Representative of Ukraine to the UN, Sergei KislitsiaHe said it is “regrettable” that his Russian counterpart, Vasili Nebenzia, “is able to abuse his permanent seat to make the Council listen to his tales of disinformation”.

“Moscow is still trying to divert attention of the Council of real security threats arising from its aggression,” he said.

Kislitsia argued that freedom of religion is a human rightas collected in several documents of international organizations.

However, he denounced that during the war Russian troops destroyed more than 270 churches and sacred buildings.

(With information from EFE and Europa Press)

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