Thousands of children kidnapped from Ukraine and brought to Russian territory are being forced to work in factories that produce drones and other weapons, according to a report from Yale University.
The Yale School of Public Health’s humanitarian research lab found in a study released on Tuesday that Russia has abducted tens of thousands of Ukrainian children since invading the country in 2022, many of whom have been forced into adoption by Russian families, or taken to re-education centers and munitions factories.
In the Krasnodar Krai region in southern Russia, the study found that hundreds of children who passed through the “All-Russian Children’s Centre ‘Change'” were eventually put to work on drones, mine detectors, and loading mechanisms for assault rifles.
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