People lay down teddy bears on the ground.
People place candles beside teddy bears as a demonstration for Ukrainian children taken by Russia.
  • Russia has been accused of forcibly removing thousands of Ukrainian children from their homes.
  • One study claimed that children are being sent to re-education camps across Russia.
  • Some Ukrainian students were told they needed to go to Crimea for school "camp," WaPo reported.

Some Ukrainian teenagers were told that they needed to go to a "camp" in Russian-occupied Crimea for school only to have no way of returning home, The Washington Post reported.

Students from Kherson, which was seized by Russian troops in March 2022, told the Post their school directors pressured them to go to the "camp."