Invaders plan to increase pressure on young people at the PTO from September, with record funds allocated for this purpose

This was reported by Melitopol city mayor Ivan Fedorov.

According to him, the enemy is most actively spreading its propaganda among children. In particular, since the first months of the occupation, the Russians have replaced education with propaganda.

Children and young people are driven into militarised organisations where they are brainwashed with the "greatness of Russia". Dissenters are killed, as it happened with teenagers from Berdyansk," Fyodorov said.

He added that from the beginning of the school year in September, the pressure on young people may increase, because the Kremlin has allocated a record 40 billion rubles from the budget for military-patriotic propaganda. The invaders will pay special attention to young people in the temporarily occupied territories.

As previously reported,over the year the invaders took more than 280 children from the Luhansk region to the territory of Russia. The abducted children were taken to the "Cossack cadet corps" in the Republic of Kalmykia.

In addition, the number of crimes in temporarily occupied Crimea increased in 2023. According to researchers, Russians made 140 arrests this year, and three more people died.