Editorial: Putin is relocating Ukrainian children to Russian ‘re-education’ camps. It’s tantamount to a war crime
One of Vladimir Putin’s strategies during his brutal, illegal war in Ukraine has been to ensure that Russians only hear one version of reality. His.
This week, the world learned that he’s also applying that tactic to Ukrainian children.
The Russian government has put thousands of Ukrainian children into what the Kremlin pitched as “recreation camps,” but in actuality are re-education facilities aimed at Russifying the children with a pro-Moscow lens into Russian culture, history and society, released by Yale University and the Conflict Observatory, a program created by the State Department to document war crimes committed by Russian forces and their proxies in Ukraine.
