Thousands of children from Ukraine were told they were going on a school trip before unknowingly being sent to Russian “re-education” camps.
When Russians poured into Ukrainian towns, teachers were instructed to give consent forms to parents and told them to bring their children to a specific destination the next day before they were whisked away to so-called school camps.
A report by Yale University last month said more than 6,000 children aged between four months and 17 years were being held in 43 camps in a systematic campaign “coordinated by Russia’s federal government”.
