More than 6,000 Ukrainian children have been detained in at least 43 camps and other facilities in Russia since the war began, according to a study by Yale University's Institute for Human Rights Research. "The report documents Russia's systematic offshoring, re-education and, in some cases, foster care or adoption of Ukrainian children," the Yale School of Public Health said on Twitter.


Russia has held more than 6,000 children from Ukraine in at least 43 camps and other facilities, according to a new report by researchers at @HRL_YaleSPH, a partner of the @StateDept funded @ObserveConflict. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/QcASut3Jlu

— Yale School of Public Health (@YaleSPH) February 15, 2023

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These children are "aged 4 months to 17 years," and their total number is "probably significantly higher than 6,000," the report said. But those on whom the British researchers were able to gather information were mostly deported to "pre-existing summer camps": 12 clustered around the Black Sea, 7 in occupied Crimea and 10 near the cities of Moscow, Kazan and Yekaterinburg. In addition, the researchers identified "two camps in Siberia and one in the far east of Russia", as well as a psychiatric hospital involved in the deportation of orphans.

Dozens of government figures involved

"All levels of the Russian government are involved," the report says, calling it a "centralized, coordinated operation." Several "dozen federal, regional and local figures" were identified by the researchers, involved in "logistical coordination, fundraising and supplies, camp management." Among them, "at least 12 individuals are not on the Western sanctions list".



In these camps, at least 32 are "engaged in a systematic re-education effort that exposes Ukrainian children to Russian academic, cultural, patriotic and/or military education." In addition, at least twenty "allegedly orphaned" children from two camps were "placed with families in the Moscow region and recruited into local schools."

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