Russia operates an “unprecedented system” for the re -education of Ukrainian children forced, shows a newer report

A research funded by the US has identified over 210 locations in which Ukrainian children were taken by Russia for military training, the manufacture of drones and other forms of forced re -education, as part of a large -scale deportation program, writes Reuters.

The Public Health School at Yale University transmitted, in a report published on Tuesday that over 150 new locations have been discovered since it published last year's conclusions, when it stated that the Russian presidential aircraft has been used for children's transport.

The most recent report of the Humanitarian Research Laboratory (HRL) from Yale, based on information from open sources and satellite images, shows that about half of the locations are managed by the Russian government.

This “represents the largest number of locations in which children from Ukraine have been taken, which has been published so far,” the report shows. “The real number is probably higher, because there are several locations that are still investigated by the HRL and there may be additional locations that have not yet been identified,” the document mentions.

Ukraine claims that Moscow illegally deported or forcefully relocated over 19,500 children to Russia and Belarus, violating the Geneva conventions. In June, Yale estimated that the figure could be close to 35,000.

Russia denies that it has relocated children against their will and claims that it has voluntarily evacuated people to remove them from the war area.

The Kremlin did not respond immediately to a request to comment on this report.

Yale researchers “can conclude that Russia operates a potential, unprecedented system, re -education, military training and accommodation facilities in bedrooms, capable of hosting tens of thousands of children in Ukraine for long periods of time,” reports.

The Yale program, which was deprived of funding by the administration of US President Donald Trump, has previously identified 314 Ukrainian children on the websites of the Russian government, where they were adopted by families in Russia.

The number of Ukrainian children deported and the network of facilities in which they are held have increased since Yale published for the first time his conclusions, in 2023, when he estimated that 6,000 children were taken in 43 camps.

“Global unity”

The Yale conclusions were the basis of the arrest warrants issued in 2023 by the International Criminal Court (CPI) on the name of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his commissioner for children's rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of the illegal deportation of children, an act that constitutes a crime.

“The good news is that now we know the full extent of the problem we are facing,” Nathaniel Raymond, the executive director of the humanitarian research laboratory, told Reuters. “The bad news is that solving this problem, bringing home these children at home, depends on an absolute global unit,” said Raymond.

Yale states that, after the beginning of Russia's large -scale invasion in Ukraine, from February 2022, Ukrainian children were taken to places located on a distance of 3,500 miles (5,600 km), including cadet schools, a military base, medical units, a place of worship, secondary schools and universities, and,

The military training of Ukrainian children took place in at least 39 locations, and at least 34 of these facilities are recently identified, the report on Tuesday.

Ukrainian children between the ages of 8 and 18 were taken to camps and a military base, where they were subjected to militarization programs, including fighting, parades and ceremonial exercises, the assembly of drones and other equipment, as well as learning military history.

The children also participated in TIR competitions, grenade throw competitions, tactical medicine, drone control and tactical training.

In a case identified by Yale, the children in the Donetk region received “air training” at a military base. They were based on a plane operated by the Department of Administration of Presidential Properties within the Russian Presidential Administration, the report shows.

Mariana Betsa, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, told Reuters that 1,600 deporteed children had returned to Ukraine. She said that the fate of those who did not return should be the subject of any peace negotiations.

“Before moving on to any kind of peace discussions on the merits, we must definitely understand that the problem of children should be on the agenda,” Betsa said.