Thank you.
You're right. The number of children who are conscripted is growing.
I will just give you one example. Before my trip, I talked with a soldier. He told me there was a battle, and many Russian soldiers were killed. They collected their documents and bodies. One document was for a 15-year-old boy in Russian military uniform. They're using child soldiers.
With huge indoctrination and brainwashing, they instill hatred toward NATO. In Ukrainian prisons for Russian-captured soldiers, every sixth Russian soldier who is captured is now from occupied territories. Many of them are young adults. If you ask them, “Who are you fighting?”, they will answer, “NATO.” They are 100% sure they are fighting against NATO soldiers.
When we're questioning our kids who've been rescued, they're telling us that it's not a school in occupied territories; it's a military school. They say, “Every day, Russian soldiers come in and train us.” Can you imagine that? That's hundreds of thousands of children, and it's not only in occupied territories; in Russia, you can read Russian history books, and you will find that Canada, the west and the United States are the enemy.
It's as it was in the Soviet Union. I grew up in the Soviet Union. I read these books in the Soviet Union, but it's a new era. It's a huge indoctrination of children, and they are preparing these kids for the next stage of war with the west. I can imagine that there are millions of Russian children and Ukrainians, after reindoctrination, who manage drones, who produce drones, who handle weapons.
One 15-year-old girl, an orphan who had been forcibly sent to a Russian military camp, showed me how to make a booby trap. Kids are creating booby traps, handling weapons and managing drones. Soon they will grow up, and they could flow to western countries, having this hatred towards the west, managing drones and new technologies. Believe me, it will happen.
That's why we should act now to stop Russia, by deprogramming these kids. What we're doing first in our rehabilitation centre is deprogramming them, because many of them do not know that Ukraine exists. That's because they learned, in this new Russian school, that Ukraine does not exist anymore. I can tell you tons of stories about this.