Got into Gulag: Politico told about escape from the Russian Federation of four Ukrainian teenagers
Politico said about how four Ukrainians got out of the occupied territories. The article about the wanderings of children was called "Ukrainian teenagers who coped with the Putin Archipelago Gulag - and won. " History begins with the adventure of Vladislav, which happened in November 2022. At that moment, Kherson was probably already released by the Armed Forces, and the guy was in the Crimea in the meantime and committed a "sabotage" against the Russian flag.
According to the journalists, the teenager scolded to the flagpole, threw a tricolor and instead hung a underwear. Subsequently, Vlad, together with his friends, pushed the flag of the Russian Federation and "lowered it to the toilet. " Politico described how the boys lived who tried to "re -educate" in the Russian camp "Friendship" in Crimea. The territory of the camp was surrounded by a two -meter fence, protected by barbed wire.
Children were forbidden to speak Ukrainian, forced to sing the Russian anthem and joined "patriotic education". The former Berkut fighter Valery Astakhov was headed by the former Berkut fighter, journalists said. About 600 Ukrainian children were kept behind the barbed wire. As teenagers were not exposed to the Russians, they began to put pressure on them, the article is said. In the end, friends barricaded in the room and refused to follow any instructions of the authorities.
Subsequently, they tried to bribe them - they offered money, apartments, passports of the Russian Federation, but their protests rose. In the end, the children were saved by Save Ukraine: the representatives of the occupation administration were pressed until the children agreed to return to Ukraine. The authorities had to visit several Russian cities, but he eventually found himself at home, walking through the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, journalists told.
Denis, Sergei and Rostislav were chosen in the other way: they were taken out through Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Politico posted a map showing all the settlements where the history of teenagers unfolded. It can be seen that the children had to make their way in the Russian Federation: they visited Anapa, Krasnodar, Voronezh, as well as in the mountains and in Pskov.
It should be noted that in June 2024, Focus wrote about the stolen children whom the invaders were taken to the Crimea and then began to adopt throughout the Russian Federation. According to investigators, children changed their names, distorted names, deliberately indicated the wrong date of birth. Such actions complicated the search, which was the purpose of the Russians, said Financial Times.