Ukrainian children have been transferred to more than 200 different facilities throughout Russia, including the sites where they were subjected to forced “re -education” and military training in a clear violation of international law, according to a new research.
Eight different types of facilities, from summer camps to religious sites to military academies that extend throughout the entire Russia extension, were identified in the SCHOL of Health Laboratory report for Humanitarian Research that was published on Tuesday.
Nathaniel Raymond, CEO of the Research Laboratory, said in an interview on Sunday that the study began to request Ukraine to understand the full size of the utility network that is detained, to help them return to their homeland in the end to their homeland.
He said: “It is really important that all the participating people have in different ways to restore children the most accurate spatial information, and this is the case.”
Using open source intelligence, news reports and Russian government documents, as well as satellite images, the Yale 210 report has identified different sites where children are taken. Some are temporarily brought to the sites, while others are granted Russian citizenship and forced forced adoption.
He adds that in most sites, children are going through “re -education” programs to impose Russian patriotism, including lectures in Russian history and the singing of the national anthem.
Others, especially the older children, received military training in the Kadit academies and a military base, including “drone monitoring and tactics”, and they have. Participated in the shooting and bombs smuggling competitions, according to the report.
The researchers said they could not verify whether any of the children who were presented to military training have been recruited in the Russian army or were deployed in the war in Ukraine.
The Children’s Rights Commissioner in Russia, Maria Alexevana Lavova Bilova, and the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, did not respond to the requests for comment.
The official “Bring Children” program in Ukraine, which participates in the government with other countries and international organizations to return children from Russia, has registered nearly 20,000 cases of illegal deportations and forced children.
The new report is not estimated at the number of children who have been temporarily detained or indefinite in Russia. But Raymond said that locating gives a better sense of the scale, and compared it to the carnival game to try to guess the number of gel beans in a jar.
“At the present time, with this report, we know volumes as much as we will know how size of the jar, and the cheerful jar,” he said.
The report relies on research that helped support the allegations of war crimes against Russian President Vladimir Putin, issued by the International Criminal Court, which issued an arrest warrant accusing him of overseeing forced kidnappings and deportation. The International Criminal Court also accused Lvova-Belova of committing similar crimes.
The Kremlin previously denied these allegations and said that the orders of “horrific”.
Ukraine has restored the kidnapped children in the vehicles of any talks with Russia to end the war. Ukrainian President Foludmir Zellinski raised the issue with President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House last month, days after Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska.
Last week, Zelenskyy announced plans to hold a “high -level event” on kidnapped children during the United Nations General Assembly meeting later this month.
The research was disabled after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs funded the conflict Observatory program, which was part of it, was cut by executive order by Trump. It was not restored. All data were lost, but the contractor who was working on the project in Florida kept a backup copy in a remote form, according to Raymond.
The data warehouse has been transferred to the laboratory to Europol, the European Law Enforcement Agency.
The researchers also stopped sharing their results directly with ICC after the penalties imposed by the Trump administration on the court in February.
In the past, Raymond said the laboratory was cooperating with the International Criminal Court regarding investigations into the pro -war crimes allegations of Ukraine on the basis of an agreement placed during the Biden administration.
Now, the researchers are working on assuming that the previous agreement is no longer valid. “We no longer believe that it is safe for us to try to share information with them, given the lack of clarity legally from the Trump administration,” he said.
However, a new batch of the two parties in the Senate is underway to describe Russia as a sponsor of terrorism unless the Ukrainian children who were taken during the war will return. Sens. Lindsey Graham, RS.C. ; Richard Blumentel, De Kon. Amy Cluboshr, Die Men; Katie Brett presented, R.