Russian occupiers continue to indoctrinate Ukrainian children in the newly occupied territories of the Kherson region

January 24, 2024

Ukrainian children from the occupied territories are constantly indoctrinated with Russian propaganda, including in order to then take them to the territory of the Russian Federation.

Children from the occupied Henichesk are regularly taken to the camps of Crimea: Russian media report that during two years of full-scale war, more than 900 children from the Henichesk district were taken to Adygea, to the Lan and Gorny camps, where a year ago events for guests from the Kherson region.

Meanwhile, in Henichesk, the occupiers held a conference on the anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad, which brought together schoolchildren, students and public figures from the Kherson region. As part of the propaganda campaign, they also conduct lessons where they talk about the blockade and the exploits of the Soviet army, comparing the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the Nazis.

Let us recall that the Russian propaganda machine has been working for a long time: from the very beginning of the occupation of the Henichesk region, the Russians began to indoctrinated the local population, as reported by the Chairman of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and member of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Eskender Bariev almost two years ago. According to him, the occupiers tried to gather representatives of education and culture for a general meeting, but it was to no avail. Lessons for Ukrainian children began to be held in November 2022, when one of the local schools was visited by representatives of the Youth Army movement and the Grom-2 special forces, who tried to justify the war in Ukraine and attract children to connect their lives with the military profession in the future.

In the Kherson region, during the same period, Russian authorities appointed a Russian language teacher, Tetiana Kuzmych, as Deputy Minister of Education, who two years earlier had been detained by SSU officers for treason. It was reported that Kuzmych worked for the FSB and was involved in espionage for years. In addition, in the Kherson region there was the creation of a branch of the Youth Army, which was supposed to engage in military-patriotic training of children.

Unfortunately, tens of thousands of children will become victims of fake education. They are trying to rewrite history. But everyone in this world knows that the real crime, during which many innocent people died, was committed by Russia. And all the children who are now in the temporarily occupied territories will definitely know about this when they return home.