August 3, 2025
Russia ‘using stolen Ukrainian children to rebuild for future wars’
A new report claims that Ukrainian children are being forced into a sprawling network of militarised camps and indoctrinated by Moscow to rebuild its armies.
When Tatiana’s son was removed by Russian forces in Kherson, the o:cial narrative was that it would only be a few weeks to keep him safe during the early part of the invasion of Ukraine. In fact it was the best part of a year before Tatiana would see her teenage boy again. And even then it was only after she took the perilous journey into Russian-held Crimea, where o:cials accused her of acting for Ukrainian intelligence and subjected her to several days of questioning before releasing her son into her custody. He had a broken arm and leg, and Tatiana is sceptical about the claim given of sports-related injuries at the camp he had been taken to. He was subjected to isolation as punishment for acts of defiance, including tearing down a Russian flag, and has permanent hearing loss in one ear after a blow to the head with the handle of a machine gun.