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August 27, 2019 - 10:13 News

Fake: Lithuania Teaches War to Ukrainian Children

Russian media featured several stories this week about summer camps in Lithuania for children of Ukrainian servicemen deployed in Donbas. “In the Baltics children are being prepared for war, they will replace their fathers. You cannot call this normal,” writes Russkaya Vesna, while the orthodox and monarchist site Tsargrad claims that youth camps in Lithuania and Latvia are teaching Ukrainian children partisan warfare. Both publications emphasize that the camps are…

May 10, 2019 - 18:49 Context

Children as a tool: How Russia militarizes kids in the Donbas and Crimea

By Iryna Matviyishyn, for Atlantic Council With an eye to the future, officials in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine are waging a campaign of “patriotic education” aimed at reaching the hearts and minds of those most susceptible to ideological persuasion: children. Russia has always used the militarization of public life to indoctrinate local populations and continues that practice today. Currently, thousands of children in the Donbas and Crimea are subject…

May 18, 2016 - 15:49 Context

Russian propaganda: Children of Donbass in a fishbowl

Unrecognized DPR and LPR usually known as Eastern Ukraine territories are filled by Russian propaganda garbage nowadays. Kremlin regime created an awful creature of lie, blood and violence, poisoning the world by malice. After mature citizens of Donbass being brainwashed by “Russian world” idea, the Russian propaganda concentrated its efforts on the most unprotected citizens of Eastern Ukraine – children, James Johnson wrote for Ground Report. According to UNICEF, more…

February 23, 2016 - 15:35 News

Fake: UNICEF Accuses Kyiv of Aggression against Donetsk and Luhansk

Venezuela’s Telesur television station aired a story on February 19 about children affected by two years of war in the Donbas region. Telesur used UNICEF data as its source and went on to quote UNICEF Ukraine representative Giovanna Barberis, who allegedly accused Kyiv of aggression against Donetsk and Luhansk. “Despite the tension in the region and Kyiv’s aggressive military strength against the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, UNICEF has provided psychological…

December 19, 2015 - 14:39 News

Fake: Child Care Allowance to Be Cancelled in Ukraine

Some Ukrainian and Russian media reported that child care subsidies had been cancelled in Ukraine. The pro-Russian website Politnavigator was one of the first to report this story on December 1, using the Ukrainian publication Delovaya Stolitsa as its source. The Delovaya Stolitsa story was published as far back as July 1, 2014. On December 4, the fake story was reposted by nikmedia.com.ua and soon followed by several other websites:…