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GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in the “Child Kidnappers” section of the War&Sanctions portal, publishes data on ten individuals and two legal entities involved in the militarization and indoctrination of Ukrainian children in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
Individuals: https://war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/kidnappers/persons…
Legal entities: https://war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/kidnappers/companies…
At the “Zarnitsa 2.0” competition, which took place in the TOT of Ukraine in May 2026, Putin’s “Dvizhenie Pervykh” taught children how to handle weapons and explosives, operate drones, and spread militaristic propaganda among minors.
The purpose of such events is to destroy Ukrainian identity in children and prepare them to take part in the criminal war against their own country.
Among the individuals made public:
Artur Orlov — chairman of the board of “Dvizhenie Pervykh”;
Aleksey Lavrentyev, Marina Tsvetinskaya, Ruyal Aliyev, Yekaterina Kozyr and Viktoriya Kostromina — regional “leaders” of “Dvizhenie Pervykh” in the TOT of Ukraine. During competitions in the TOT of Zaporizhia region, Kostromina stated that the military skills acquired by children would become a “reliable foundation in life” for them;
Svetlana Bespalova — the so‑called deputy minister of education, science and youth of the Russian occupation administration in Crimea. Since April 2022 she has participated in the implementation of the aggressor state’s education and youth policy on the occupied peninsula, promotes the integration of local educational institutions into the Russian educational space, and the introduction of Russian educational and propaganda practices;
Nikita Polyakov — chief of staff of the regional branch of the Russian “Yunarmiya” in the TOT of Kherson region. He regularly organizes propaganda events for children involving participants of Russia’s criminal war against Ukraine and representatives of Russian security forces.
The aggressor state Russia is carrying out a forcible ideological “reprogramming” of Ukrainian children in the TOT of Ukraine and is shaping the future replenishment of its army to implement aggressive neo‑imperial policies.
GUR documents the methods, organizers and perpetrators of criminal actions in the occupied territories of Ukraine — each and every one of them will face inevitable and just retribution.
Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
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