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19-04-2022, 12:52 PM
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news...r-26741075
And Putin reportedly has been targeting youth clubs and conscripting 16-year-olds to step up and join the new invasion while replacing the estimated 30,000 soldiers killed, wounded or captured so far.
Ukrainian officials have called on the United Nations to investigate his alleged illegal deployment of child soldiers’, reports the Daily Star.
Human rights organisations claim youngsters are being recruited from patriotic clubs which sprang up in Russian-occupied parts of eastern Ukraine, following its 2014 invasion, as part of a campaign to promote the country's culture in Luhansk and Donetsk.
They are said to be undergoing military training and could be sent to the frontline against their will. Some have already been thrust into action and died fighting.
Badges and insignia of Russian military cadets - who are not supposed to be deployed to war zones - have also been found on battlefields in Ukraine. The Ukrainian parliament commissioner on human rights, Lyudmyla Denisova, said children who participated in the so-called 'patriotic clubs' are being mobilised into illegal weapons formations’.
And Putin reportedly has been targeting youth clubs and conscripting 16-year-olds to step up and join the new invasion while replacing the estimated 30,000 soldiers killed, wounded or captured so far.
Ukrainian officials have called on the United Nations to investigate his alleged illegal deployment of child soldiers’, reports the Daily Star.
Human rights organisations claim youngsters are being recruited from patriotic clubs which sprang up in Russian-occupied parts of eastern Ukraine, following its 2014 invasion, as part of a campaign to promote the country's culture in Luhansk and Donetsk.
They are said to be undergoing military training and could be sent to the frontline against their will. Some have already been thrust into action and died fighting.
Badges and insignia of Russian military cadets - who are not supposed to be deployed to war zones - have also been found on battlefields in Ukraine. The Ukrainian parliament commissioner on human rights, Lyudmyla Denisova, said children who participated in the so-called 'patriotic clubs' are being mobilised into illegal weapons formations’.
