“ High-ranking Russian officers conduct military schools for Ukrainian children from the occupied territories and manage children’s militarization centers. We are talking about the activities of the “Warrior” military-patriotic education center, created in 2022 on the instructions of the ruler of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. Source: UP, Kyiv Independent Details: According to Kyiv Independent journalists, Ukrainian teenagers from the occupied parts of Kherson Oblast, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk Oblast and Donetsk Oblast are attending the military schools of the “Warrior” center on the territory of the “Avangard” defense and sports camp in Volgograd Oblast. They are included in the changes of “Time of Young Heroes”, one of the goals of which is to prepare young people for service in the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Ukrainian children there face brutal treatment, they are taught to operate drones, dig trenches, demine and mine territories, use grenades and weapons. 16-year-old Oksana (name changed), a resident of the occupied South, who went through military training in 2024, when she was 16, shared her exclusive testimony with Kyiv Independent journalists. The head of the supervisory board of the “Warrior” center is Viktor Vodolatskyi. Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, who has a medal for the “liberation of Crimea and Sevastopol”. With the beginning of a full-scale war, Vodolatsky traveled to the east of Ukraine, where he inspected the work of the occupation authorities and called for the destruction of the armed forces of Ukraine. Andranik Gasparian is his deputy, the commander of the “Warrior” center. Colonel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Took part in military operations in the Chechen Republic, Syria and Crimea. Has two orders “For Courage”. He was the commander of the 126th coast guard brigade. From the first days of the war, it occupied the Ukrainian South. Gasparyan’s subordinates received suspicions in absentia from Ukrainian law enforcement officers for war crimes: beatings, kidnappings and murders of civilians, imitation of shootings, rape of a minor girl. Kyiv Independent journalists identified another 25 instructors of the “Warrior” center, who directly conducted schools for Ukrainian children in Volgograd. Mostly they took part in the war against Ukraine. Ihor Vorobyov manages the branch of the “Warrior” center in the Volgograd region. A lieutenant colonel of the internal service who worked for 20 years in the management of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. He volunteered for the war against Ukraine in 2022 as part of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division and was the commander of the assault unit. He took part in the battles for Maryinka. Vorobyov was wounded in the war, returned to Volgograd and later headed a branch of the Voin Center. One of the center’s instructors is Yehor Sokov, a former fighter of the “Vagner” PMK, who participated in the battles for the occupied Soledar and Popasna. Sokov has the Order of Courage, as well as the Star for Military Merit from the Central African Republic. Sokov teaches radio communication to children from the occupied territories. In addition to the Russian military, Ukrainian children were taught in “Avangard” by instructors from the occupied territories. Kyiv Independent journalists identified six of them. One of them is Anatoly Yushko from Donetsk. He was a schoolboy when Russia started the war in 2014. Yushko went through militarization and re-education, was a member of the Russian youth military-patriotic “Unarmy”. And at 19, he voluntarily went to war and captured the Zaporizhzhia region. After demobilization, he began teaching children at the “Warrior” center. Together with Oksana, in 2024, 1,289 children from the occupied territories passed through the militarization of the “Warrior” center in the Volgograd region.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: UP, Kyiv Independent
Details: As Kyiv Independent journalists have established, Ukrainian teenagers from the occupied parts of Kherson Oblast, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk Oblast and Donetsk Oblast are attending military training at the “Warrior” center on the territory of the “Avangard” defense and sports camp in Volgograd Oblast. They are included in the changes of “Time of Young Heroes”, one of the goals of which is to prepare young people for service in the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Ukrainian children there face brutal treatment, they are taught to operate drones, dig trenches, demine and mine territories, use grenades and weapons.
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16-year-old Oksana (name changed), a resident of the occupied South, who went through military training in 2024, when she was 16, shared her exclusive testimony with Kyiv Independent journalists.
The head of the supervisory board of the Voin center is Viktor Vodolatskyi. Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, who has a medal for the “liberation of Crimea and Sevastopol”. With the beginning of a full-scale war, Vodolatsky traveled to the east of Ukraine, where he inspected the work of the occupation authorities and called for the destruction of the armed forces of Ukraine.
His deputy, the commander of the “Warrior” center, is Andranik Gasparyan. Colonel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Took part in military operations in the Chechen Republic, Syria and Crimea. Has two orders “For Courage”. He was the commander of the 126th coast guard brigade. From the first days of the war, it occupied the Ukrainian South. Gasparyan’s subordinates received suspicions in absentia from Ukrainian law enforcement officers for war crimes: beatings, kidnappings and murders of civilians, imitation of shootings, rape of a minor girl.
Kyiv Independent journalists identified another 25 instructors of the “Warrior” center, who directly conducted schools for Ukrainian children in Volgograd. Mostly they took part in the war against Ukraine.
Manages a branch of the “Warrior” center in the Volgograd region Igor Vorobyov. A lieutenant colonel of the internal service who worked for 20 years in the management of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. He went to war against Ukraine volunteered in 2022 as part of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division and was the commander of the assault unit. He took part in the battles for Maryinka. Vorobyov was wounded in the war, returned to Volgograd and later headed a branch of the Voin Center.
One of the instructors of the center is Yehor Sokova former fighter of the “Wagner” PMK, who participated in the battles for the occupied Soledar and Popasna. Sokov has the Order of Courage, as well as the Star for Military Merit from the Central African Republic. Sokov teaches radio communication to children from the occupied territories.
In addition to the Russian military, Ukrainian children were taught in “Avangard” by instructors from the occupied territories. Kyiv Independent journalists identified six of them.
One of them is Anatoly Yushko from Donetsk. He was a schoolboy when Russia started the war in 2014. Yushko went through militarization and re-education, was a member of the Russian youth military-patriotic “Unarmy”. And at 19, he voluntarily went to war and captured the Zaporizhzhia region. After demobilization, he began teaching children at the “Warrior” center.
Together with Oksana in 2024 due to the militarization of the “Warrior” center in the Volgograd region 1289 children from the occupied territories passed.