Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Ivan Fedorov, the former mayor of the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, as the new governor of the Zaporizhzhia region. Concurrently, reports have emerged of Russia's efforts to 're-educate' up to 700,000 Ukrainian children relocated to Russia or Russian-occupied areas, with aims to erase their Ukrainian identity. Children have been told 'we’re all Russians' and that they cannot return to Ukraine, a practice described as an act of genocide under the UN's 1948 Genocide Convention. Furthermore, Ivan Fedorov has highlighted Russia's plans to change the demographic composition of occupied Zaporizhzhia through massive resettlement of Russians, Belarusians, and Kazakhs, alongside the organization of questionable presidential elections.
On top of forcible deportation, disappearances of Ukrainian citizens, Russia is planning another massive resettlement of Russians, Belarusians, and Kazakhs to occupied Zaporizhzhia to forcibly change the demographic composition of the region, says Melitopol mayor @IvanFedorovUA. https://t.co/PpaesVpEJf
The occupiers have started arranging the so-called presidential "elections" in the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast. They are examining "polling stations," allowing voting with 🇺🇦 passports and bringing in Russians to boost the number of votes. Ivan Fedorov, the head…
“They told me that Ukraine doesn’t exist, that it never existed, that we’re all Russians.” Russia's mass abduction and indoctrination of Ukrainian children is an act of genocide as defined by the UN's 1948 Genocide Convention https://t.co/4BqInz7weW
If Russia has seized tens of thousands of Ukrainian children supposedly for their safety, then why is it raising them as if they are Russians, erasing their Ukrainian identity? https://t.co/xzy5iSD3fW
‘They told me we’re all Russians’: fears grow over ‘re-education’ of Ukrainian children https://t.co/KC1aN4ZCTc #Ukraine #Russia #Putin
‘They told me we’re all Russians’: fears grow ‘re-education’ of Ukrainian children https://t.co/ysEGAZPFIv via @guardian #Ukraine #Putinswar #Russia
‘They told me we’re all Russians’: fears grow over ‘re-education’ of Ukrainian children Russia, which boasts of taking in 700,000 children, stands accused of trying to erase their Ukrainian identity https://t.co/XovQX4jmkt
⚡️Guardian: Russia "re-educates" deported Ukrainian children. Veronika Vlasenko, a Ukrainian child who spent 14 months in the Russian school system, said her teachers and fellow students told her she would never be allowed to return home. https://t.co/yjhOQM9zjo
‘They told me we’re all Russians’: fears grow over ‘re-education’ of Ukrainian children https://t.co/0wjCK5RWC7
“Russia is trying to destroy the Ukrainian nation, not only physically, but by severing familial bonds and erasing the Ukrainian identity of the deported children.” https://t.co/4BqInz7weW
#Russia makes no secret of the fact that they are stealing children in Russian-occupied areas in southern and eastern #Ukraine and intend to turn Ukrainian children into “patriotic” Russians: https://t.co/rKeIEOjHvB
Somewhere between 20,000 and 700,000 Ukrainian children have been relocated from their homes to Russia or Russian-occupied territories and put under a program aimed at erasing their emotional and psychological ties to Ukraine. https://t.co/oqvoCKABHt
In #Ukraine, president @ZelenskyyUa appointed Ivan Fedorov, the former mayor of the currently#Russia|n-occupied city of #Melitopol, as the new governor of #Zaporizhzhia region: https://t.co/a3I0B4mudf