The Yale Project: A Systematic Program for Re-education and Adoption of Ukrainian Children in the Black Sea, Siberia, and Black Sea

There are holding facilities on the Black Sea coast, as well as in Siberia, in the report that describes Russia’s systematic program for re-education and adoption of Ukrainian children.

“This is not one rogue camp, this is not one rogue mayor or governor,” says Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab. “It is a large logistical undertaking that does not happen by accident.”

“The Russian government needs to legitimize its activities, that make all of this seem normal,” she says, “because you simply can’t move these many children through these many places without their movements being noticed.”

In some cases there is adoption, in other cases the kids are slated to return home and never did, and in a few cases they are re-education camps.

The Yale report is the most extensive look at the program so far, says Raymond. He said it showed scale, chain of command, and logistical complexity.

War crimes in Ukraine: A Yale research lab on social media, news reports, Russian messaging and government announcements – The first stories of Donbass

In July, Lvova-Belova said on her Telegram channel that a hundred and eight orphans of Donbass who had received Russian citizenship would have parents by the end of the week. “Shurochka was the first to be handed over to her mother. I was so emotional when I heard the child’s laughter.

The Ukrainian government has been raising the alarm over these activities for many years.

The Yale researchers began investigating missing Ukrainian children when the first Russian social media posts appeared last year. One of the Yale researchers says that the messaging began around the time of Putin’s adoption announcement. He didn’t want to be identified to protect the security of his work.

“I believe the first places we saw this were on Telegram and then VK,” he says. Telegram is a popular messaging service. The Russian version of Facebook is called VK.

The Yale Humanitarian Research lab is defining the future of war crimes investigations by combining open source research techniques with high-resolution satellite imagery to offer analysis of alleged war crimes in real time.

There are about 20 researchers looking for patterns and connections in social media posts, news reports, Russian messaging services and government announcements.

The Yale Lab: A Cyber-Politician Shop for the Study of Crimea, Ukraine’s War Crimes, and the Status of Children in Military Camps

“You are able to see people.” There are cars you can see. He said that you can see certain types of activity. “There’s a very large amount of material related to the patriotic education that they undergo while they are in camps,” he added. The lessons are designed, he says, to instill loyalty to Russia and promote Moscow’s version of the war.

The report says that the operation was coordinated by Russia’s federal government and involved every level of government. Several dozen federal, regional and local figures were identified by the Yale program as being involved and justifying the program.

The Yale team are all young Internet sleuths who work to verify the data they dig up and document the steps needed to meet the exacting standards and protocols for trial.

Raymond describes the lab’s role as a “cop shop” – a “cyber cop shop,” that is mindful to detail a chain of custody for the evidence produced. To understand the Lab’s role, he points to the TV show Law and Order.

“We are the beat cop, collecting evidence and digital evidence, and then how that meshes with the law,” he says.

“We are showing that we can collect perishable evidence and make it actionable in ways that were previously impossible. The scale of operation used to only be available to governments.

It is the future of war crimes investigations happening now at the Yale Lab, says Raymond, as civil society uses the same tools as governments, “at scale and at speed.”

The Kremlin has a plan to deny and suppress Ukrainian identity, history, and culture. “The devastating impacts of Putin’s war on Ukraine’s children will be felt for generations. The United States will make sure that Russia is brought to justice for its abuses as long as it takes.

The network has 43 facilities that are part of it, and some of them are located close to Alaska than it is to Moscow.

According to Raymond, a camp in Chechnya and a camp in Crimea “appear to be specifically involved in training children in the use of firearms and military vehicles,” but the researchers have not seen evidence at this point that the children trained in these military camps are being sent into conflict.

“Other children have been held for months at these camps, including hundreds of children whose status is unknown; at the time of this report, it is unclear if they have been returned to their families. The report shows two camps where the return date has been delayed. At two other camps identified, children’s returns have been indefinitely postponed,” it stated.

“It’s also critically important to understand that these are children who – the lack of contact that they have, or the only intermittent contact that they may have with their parents, is causing very real and potential harm on a very daily basis,” said Caitlin Howarth, also of Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.

The report said it “identified several dozen federal, regional, and local figures directly engaged in operating and politically justifying the program,” and “at least 12 of these individuals are not on U.S. and/or international sanction lists.”

Raymond noted that “we are not here today making the genocide conclusion, but we are saying that this system is consistent with the statutory basis in both the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention in terms of the prohibition on transferring children from one group to another.”

State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that “Russia’s system of forced relocation, reeducation and adoption of Ukraine’s children is a key element of the Kremlin’s systematic efforts to deny and suppress Ukraine’s identity, its history and its culture.”

The US State Department said in a media note that the transfer and deportation of protected persons is a war crime, as required by the FourthGeneva Convention on the protection of civilians.

The Wonderful Life of a Child in Donbass: A Report on “The Extraordinary Camp Season for Ukrainian Children” by Maria Lvova-Belova

Between photos with the who’s who of Russian power and videos of a wonderful life offered to Ukrainian children, she posts glossy photos and videos.

UNICEF, the United Nations’ children’s organization, has said that “adoption should never occur during or immediately after emergencies,” and that during upheaval, children separated from their parents cannot be assumed to be orphans. The UN considers forcibly transferring another country’s population to be a war crime.

“I will be frank, I was crossing the threshold with trepidation: how have they settled in, have they got everything they need, how have the relations with parents and other children in the family worked out,” she wrote. All of the doubts were wiped away in the first few minutes. The family is wonderful.

It is confirmation that the work we have done on placing orphans from Donbass is not out of place. Everything was done right.”

“My thanks go to the British for the attention they have drawn to our mission of helping children in Donbass,” she wrote in June. As of now, we enjoy friendship as a family, as an organization, and as those affected by sanctions.

Born in the western city of Penza, Lvova-Belova began her career as a children’s guitar teacher. She eventually became involved in local politics, working her way up through the Russian power structure.

Lvova-Belova posted a report on her Telegram channel in November stating that she had adopted a young boy from Mariupol who was placed on the streets after his mother died of cancer.

She gushed about the “extraordinary camp season” for Ukrainian kids in August of last year.

“The camp has nine thematic workshops to enable teenagers to work out their life plans and professional guidelines. We are very excited about the opening of the camp.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/europe/russia-ukraine-children-maria-lvova-belova-intl/index.html

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