Russia gives Ukrainian kids military training and reeducation, Yale researchers find

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KYIV, Ukraine — A new report by Yale University researchers has uncovered evidence that Russia's extensive network of sites where thousands of Ukrainian children are reeducated is larger than investigators had previously estimated, and appears to include military training at cadet academies and schools for children as young as 8.

The report by the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, titled "Ukraine's Stolen Children: Inside Russia's Network of Re-Education and Militarization," examines what's happening to thousands of Ukrainian children taken from occupied areas, especially since Russia's February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Investigators say they have documented an extensive system where Rus