The Abomination of Kidnapping and Beating Children

Beating defenseless children is probably one of the vilest crimes in society. It is categorically condemned by governments, courts, religions and people of good will.

Not only has russia’s führer putin been labeled a war criminal for kidnapping Ukrainian children and forcibly taking them to russia, his evil, depraved minions have been beating and torturing them for saying “Slava Ukrayini” – Glory to Ukraine.

According to the Daily Telegraph UK, russian authorities are beating Ukrainian children as they attempt to “re-educate them” to become loyal russians and to forget their parents and heritage, said one of more than a dozen teenagers freed from moscow-run youth facilities after months of negotiation.

The parents of the children transported to a youth camp on the Black Sea peninsula last year managed to bring their children back to Ukraine, the newspaper reported. The children, mostly teenagers, were living in russia-occupied area of the Kherson and Kharkiv regions when local education authorities suggested sending them to a summer camp in Crimea, which has been controlled by russia since 2014.

Save Ukraine, the charity that organized the evacuation, said it helped some parents to travel to Crimea, via Poland, belarus and russia to retrieve their children. As expected, parents and children, who were seeing their mothers and fathers for the first time in months, were seen hugging and kissing as they arrived in Kyiv.

One boy spoke of his mistreatment during a television interview. The teenager, who was not identified, said children from Kherson were punished for expressing pro-Ukrainian views.

“We will take you to an orphanage, you will sit there and understand everything,” the boy said a security officer had told him and other teenagers. He also said he saw a bruise on the back of a teenage girl that had been caused by a stick used by the officer to beat them.

The boy added that the camp’s director had told him his parents had given him up for adoption. Distraught, he called his mother, who called camp officials to tell them she had done no such thing. However, administrators allegedly told her: “You’re not going to take them anyway. They will be children of russia.”

Those who returned to Ukraine have spoken about the attempts to re-educate the youths. At some camps, they were forced to learn by heart and sing the russian national anthem and taught that Ukraine was part of russia.

The US State Department said there is mounting evidence that russia’s actions reveals the kremlin’s aims to deny and suppress Ukraine’s identity, history, and culture, which is an act of genocide. “The devastating impacts of putin’s war on Ukraine’s children will be felt for generations,” the State Department said.

At least 6,000 children from Ukraine have attended russian “re-education” camps in the past year, with several hundred held there for weeks or months beyond their scheduled return date, according to a new report published in the US, The Guardian of Great Britain reported. These places focus on brainwashing, torture, punishment and intimidation in order to change the youth’s mentality. The Office of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General said in December 2022 that nearly 800 had died or disappeared during the process of deportation.

Russia has also unnecessarily expedited the adoption and fostering of children from Ukraine in what could constitute a war crime, the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab report found. The report was funded by the State Department.

Every day reveals another detestable crime committed by russia. Its so-called soldiers are incompetent so they turn to bombing residential buildings, energy infrastructures, kidnapping children and killing and raping civilians and their offspring. The gallows is too merciful for Russians.