Occupants continue ideological pressure on young people in TOT
occupation authorities announced the holding of a “strategic session” of the “older brother” project in temporarily occupied Donetsk, focusing on “working with troubled teenagers.”
▫️The event included discussions of so-called “work therapy,” which in reality involves forced labor “for the good of the motherland” or “for the front.” Through this, the occupiers try to instill in youth the perception of exploitation, contrary to all principles of international law, as a norm and part of their “patriotic duty.”
▫️Moreover, the occupiers primarily label pro-Ukrainian youth as “troubled teenagers,” targeting them for repression, psychological breaking, and suppression of their resistance by sending them to “preventive measures” or “re-education” in militarized organizations.
kremlin actively uses such “projects” in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories as part of a strategy to strip Ukrainian children of their national identity, “reprogram” their consciousness with russian narratives, integrate them into the russian cultural and value space, cultivate hatred toward Ukraine, and create a mobilization reserve for future wars.
