Russia Indoctrinates Crimean Children as Future Soldiers — SkimNews
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- Three Ukrainians who grew up in Russian-occupied Crimea describe how Russia trained them to become future soldiers for its war on Ukraine, including school classes on handling weapons.
- Their accounts are part of a broader pattern of Russian indoctrination of children in occupied territory that the source says has raised alarm in the international community.
Why it matters: Russia's training of school-age Ukrainians in occupied Crimea as future combatants — via classroom weapons instruction — is framed in the source as part of an ongoing indoctrination pattern that has already drawn international alarm, spotlighting child protection violations inside conflict zones.
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