“The goal is to make them hate Ukraine”: Russians intensify militarisation of children in occupied Zaporizhzhia

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/05/5/7510688/

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  1. Indoctrinated fascist redhats being trained to hate, because it’s easier to manipulate them that way.

    Sad to see that’s happening in Zaporizhzhia too.

  2. Doing what Azerbaijan does to its kids so they grow up with an irrational hatred of all Armenians.

  6. >The Russians are intensifying the militarisation of children and increasing funding for propaganda organisations in the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

    >**Source:** Ivan Fedorov, Head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration, on the national joint 24/7 newscast

    >**Details:** “If earlier the enemy’s goal was to make people love Russia, now it is to make them hate Ukraine,” Fedorov said.

    >He stated that the Russians are doing everything to achieve this goal. In particular, they have increased funding for propagandistic militarised organisations such as Yunarmiya (Young Army) and Voyin (Warrior).

    >This year, the Russians plan to allocate billions of roubles for these organisations. Fedorov noted that this is “two or even three times” more than in 2024.

    >He also added that the Russians are constructing a network of so-called “military-patriotic” centres where children are trained in military strategy and tactics. One such centre is already being launched in the occupied city of Berdiansk in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

    >In addition, the Russians are strengthening the Movement of the First initiative by involving children in political life.

    >The number of specialised cadet classes in schools is also increasing. Their pupils are expected to join the security forces after leaving the school.

    >”Ukrainian children in the temporarily occupied territories are having their psyches broken so that in 5-10 years, Russia will have an army ready to kill anyone on the Kremlin’s orders,” Fedorov said.

    >**Background:** Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets previously reported that last year, around 1,000 children from the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia Oblast were recruited into the militarised propaganda movement Yunarmiya.

  7. Five-year-old children are dressed in military uniforms and are taught military patriotism – boys should fight and die for Russia, and girls should have many children. Not get an education and make a career, but give birth to 3-5 children 

  8. Russia is incredibly good at this sort of thing. Unfortunately it’s probably going to work out for them.

    Just look at how many on the far right and far left that Russia has managed to essentially brainwash.

  10. This has been the case for more then decades, way back in the early 2000’s there already were youth camps who were all about creating new hordes of obedient citizens. He is just ramping up to raise children to be as hatefull as possible.
    So many problems worldwide would end if Putin was no more.

  12. Poor kids. Evil always needs something to exploit and consume to exist.

  13. Training people to hate is Russia’s specialty. They do it all over the world with their disinformation campaigns.

  14. This is the same thing UNRWA, Hamas and the PA do to children in Palestine. They train them to hate Jews and be violent against Jews. Russia is using terrorist tactics again, as is tradition.

  15. Terrible things happen in the 21th century: conversion into Janissaries, genocide of Ukrainians (partly at the hands of ethnic Ukrainians).

  16. There’s no way in hell you would take my child to fight in your useless war. This should wake up the people of Russia to turn on their dictator. Why would you let someone send your child to their death.

  17. In Russia meanwhile all children before going to summer vacation will receive in their “electronic school diaries” invitation to militarized summer camps of Yunarmiya

  18. “But, Dimitri was merely a boy, he didn’t know the reactor go boom.”

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