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Ukraine’s National Resistance Center has reported that the Russians have taken 119 Ukrainian high-school students from the temporarily occupied city of Mariupol to Russia’s Saint Petersburg for so-called “re-education”, according to Ukraine’s National Resistance Center (NRC).

“Another batch of students from temporarily occupied Mariupol has been taken to Russia by the Kremlin’s henchmen. This time it is 119 Ukrainian high-school students who will be ‘re-educated’ during propaganda meetings with Russian propagandists,” the NRC says.

The NRC noted that these systematic relocations of Ukrainian children are aimed at assimilating young Ukrainians into a Russian identity. “Young people are being forced to belong to Russia and the Russian world and to be intolerant of Ukraine and everything Ukrainian.”

The NRC added that there were instances where children have been unable to return home after such “school excursions” during holidays.

Details: The NRC added that there were instances where children have been unable to return home after such “school excursions” during holidays.

As the NRC reports, the Russian leader Vladimir Putin recently “opened” a branch of the Nakhimov Naval School in temporarily occupied Mariupol via video call.

Previously, Putin “opened” a school in Mariupol, where a child was brought in to “thank the dictator for ‘taking care’ of the city.'”