"They bring you in, divide you into men and women. You strip naked, then some officials or FSB agents search you in rubber gloves without changing them," historian Petr Hlavacek describes what it looks like in the "concentration camps of the 21st century" where the Russians "filter" captured Ukrainian soldiers, but also civilians. Moreover, Ukrainian mothers in these camps often lose their children to Russia for re-education.
"Russia is in a demographic crisis, so it is spending a lot on children and youth to somehow improve the 'Slavic element' of the Russian Federation. Caucasian and Siberian ethnicities are growing over their heads," Hlaváček explains one of the reasons why Ukrainian children are being forcibly taken to Russia. According to the Ukrainian side, so far the Russians have been able to take tens of thousands of children out of the country. "Moreover, Russia is a country where something like human organ trafficking takes place. This is a catastrophic matter and a matter to which the civilised world should pay close attention."
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