United Nations set to investigate Russia's "militarization of childhood as a state crime"

In January 2024, a UN committee expectedly calls on Russia to answer about the children deported from Ukraine: about their number; about granting Russian citizenship to them, in contradiction with international humanitarian law; about guarantees for their return to Ukraine and the preservation of their identity, citizenship, family ties; about the fate of those who were adopted. Russia, as it is well known, denies its crimes against Ukrainian children, considering deportation as “evacuation” from dangerous areas.

The investigation includes the forcible involvement of Ukrainian children in Russia and in the occupied territories of Ukraine into the programs of “military-patriotic education” – in schools, summer camps, temporary facilities for refugees. In the photos published by the organizers of such events – all kinds of “patriotic centers” – you can see children with military weapons who often look younger than even 12 years old.