Russia ‘sending kidnapped Ukrainian children to front line’

https://www.thetimes.com/article/78dd67b6-2a75-4da6-b115-ab3b11133a87

by BkkGrl

41 comments

  3. Jesus. There is just no low to how evil Russia is.

  4. Are you fucking kidding me? Do those pigs really have absolutely no limit?

  5. Putin and his cronies are fecking rotten human beings. Inhumane ruthless tactic. Despicable

  6. I can believe it because I know that people from the territories occupied since 2014 were on the front line in 2022. Unfortunately, there are no good options for ukrainians. Either fight russia or end up on the front lines on the other side a little later.

  10. That’s just… what in the actual fuck. These people can’t be human there’s no way.

  12. And that is (part of) why the kidnapping of Ukrainian children was considered to be a genocidal act. Can’t believe anyone would even consider supporting these wankers.

  13. I’m sure people will eat this up without receiving any tangible proof as always.

  16. Hopefully the kids will remember they’re Ukrainian and go home to their real families.

  20. Really? People are really still shocked about anything Russia does?
    Or is it just all bots?

    “Dughh! War criimes!?”
    Really?

  21. Imagine if Putin had conquered all of Kyiv/Ukraine in the first couple of weeks. He’d have a lot of cannon-fodder to send straight into the Baltic’s and Poland, which he definitely would have. Heroic Ukrainian blood is the reason we don’t have widespread destruction and death across Europe right now.

  22. How many children were claimed to be, what, abducted by RU?
    Thousands!?!
    And then, when asked for a List, the Ukr came with 390 on their List !!?

    So please, spare us this UTTER BS PROPAGANDA.

    Maybe post something about the civilians that got abducted by the Ukro Forces from Kursk next time..

  23. 3 people killed and 8 wounded in drone strike on Monopol Berlin.

    2 dead and 14 wounded in deadly drone strike on polish town of Żabiniec

    6 dead 2 missing as Russian drone strikes Palais Garnier Paris hotspot.

    People are not ready for these headlines, we need to give Ukraine everything we possibly can before its too late.

    The Russians will do this in every territory they conquer.

  25. Mind boggling how the world seems to have forgotten that this is also a genocide.

    Truly evil.

  27. **President Zelensky’s chief of staff has told The Times that potentially thousands of abductees have been forced into subscription once they reach 18 years old**

    Russia is forcing children abducted from Ukraine to fight against their own country when they turn 18, Ukrainian officials have told The Times.An estimated 35,000 children have been taken from Ukraine’s eastern occupied territories so far since 2014, including at gunpoint.

    New evidence is now emerging that when the children turn 18, they are being conscripted into Russian battalions and sent to the front line, to potentially face their friends, fathers or brothers on the battlefield.

    It is not known how many have been conscripted, but by some estimates there are thousands.

    In interviews with The Times, Ukrainian government officials allege that forcing the teenagers to fight serves two purposes for the Kremlin: the first is they present a solution to Russia’s military manpower crisis, with the country having suffered one million casualties already in the war so far.

    The second is as a brutal new form of psychological warfare against the Ukrainian people, allegedly the result of the Russian president’s personal orders.

    Andriy Yermak, President Zelensky’s chief of staff, told The Times’s *The General and The Journalist* podcast that the Ukrainian government has obtained hard evidence of the practice, such as conscription documents.The teenagers’ bodies are also now being found on the battlefield.

    “We have found facts about this, yes,” Yermak told this week’s episode of the podcast.

    “Putin’s goal is he doesn’t want Ukraine to exist.

    “The Russians want to destroy the new generation of the Ukrainians, and they are building new soldiers against the country where they were born. It is terrible.”

    Yermak added: “It is a very serious signal for all the world because it confirms that today the Russian regime is a terroristic regime.”

    Yale university’s Humanitarian Research Lab, the leading global authority on Russia’s child abduction program, is also investigating a mass of specific allegations concerning former children forced into combat.

    Nathaniel Raymond, the executive director, told The Times that while his team must “deal in facts that we’re able to testify about in court”, they were “working on being able to present documentary evidence on this right now”. He said he suspected the allegations were true.

    Raymond said: “Anecdotally, the conscription-to-combat pipeline is everywhere. We have heard it an awful lot.“We know older kids are being put into cadet schools, given combat weapons training and combat vehicle training.“Why would they be put into this training pipeline? There can be only one good reason for it, and it’s not for parades.”

  28. This is your daily reminder that Russia is an evil shithole.

  29. I’m from russia. What the fuck is our government up to

  32. So that‘s what they mean when they say they „rescue them from Ukraine“?

  33. The article is paywalled. Where’s the guy with the anti-paywall link?

  37. This just doesn’t add up for me. The war began in earnest in 2022. As I understand it the minimum age to join the army in russia is 18, but fuck it lets say these kids are 16 just for the sake of removing all dubiousness.

    The youngest they could have been when russia kidnapped them was 13. 13 is old enough to understand that you’re ukranian, you got kidnapped in the middle of a war and owe no loyalty to russia, and probably makes you actively dangerous to russian soldiers.

    It just doesn’t make sense from any sort of military point of view, and I think the purpose of this is to distract us westerners from the corruption bullshit ukraine is pulling

  38. Downvote me if I’m minimising the reality of the situation, but when I read berserk and saw kidnapped soldiers fighting against their own countrymen it made my blood curdle. Out of all the unholy shit in that manga, that terrified me the most. The Kremlin war effort is satanic in its justification.

  39. Legit question, wouldnt this make their own army revolt easily? They are clearly not on their side

  40. I’m waiting for the Russians to reach moral bottom, but they keep sinking deeper.

  41. Source: Zelesnkyy’s “trust me bro”. It always fun to read top comments of a ppl who actually believe every bs Zelesnkyy states.

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