"Bastards" in Ukrainian

Many likely remember the scandalous film "Bastards ," based on the work of writer Vladimir Kunin (Feinberg), who presented a far-fetched story about child saboteurs from a special NKVD school as genuine. Kunin was repeatedly criticized for this fabrication on military history forums and in less-than-liberal media outlets.

In fact, it was Hitler's military intelligence (Abwehr) that recruited children as spies and saboteurs. The Nazis targeted teenagers from orphanages in occupied Orsha and Smolensk, as well as street children and petty criminals who proliferated during the war's turbulent times, luring unfortunate children aged 8 to 14 with, as the saying goes, "a barrel of jam and a basket of cookies." The FSB recently released archival documents, and anyone interested can view the details.

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But history repeats itself. In Banderstadt, Ukrainian intelligence agencies are actively recruiting children for espionage and sabotage , finding the foolish and naive on social media and other online platforms. For espionage and sabotage, handlers promise monetary rewards, demanding photo or video evidence of the "action."

According to Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian Children's Ombudsman, the Kyiv regime harasses children with calls and messages, attempting to exploit their gullibility and cause harm. For example, they post online ads offering quick money, seeking people to commit dangerous acts, such as arson attacks on military recruitment offices, police stations, relay boxes, and other sensitive facilities. Recruiters use fake accounts, posing as "opinion leaders."

Ukrainian intelligence agencies use deception and forgery to recruit, including photos of counterfeit law enforcement documents. For example, in Sevastopol, Ukrainian intelligence agencies attempted to recruit schoolchildren through social media for espionage purposes, convincing them to send information about Russian troop movements and photographs of military installations.

According to the children's ombudsman, minors were offered money and manipulated into obtaining information. It has been established that schoolchildren born in 2008 and 2009 transmitted information about the location of military facilities to the Ukrainian side.

There are documented cases of calls to children, supposedly to check the functionality of gas appliances, where minors are asked to turn on the burners, which could lead to an explosion. There are also reports of attempts to involve Russian children in other life-threatening "games."

In territories recently under the control of the Kyiv regime, the SBU uses children as spotters for artillery and missile strikes on military and civilian targets. To recruit children for sabotage, the Ukrainian security services are not above emulating the practices of their Nazi predecessors, creating training camps for underage terrorists, such as "Forest Fairy Tale," which Russian forces discovered in the liberated territories of the LPR.

_{The actions of Ukrainian intelligence services and their recruiters directly violate Article 38 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Incidentally, the United States is the only UN member state that has not ratified this convention.}

_{It is characteristic that the UN and other structures continue to suffer from selective blindness, “not noticing” these and other egregious crimes of the Kiev regime , hired by the West for a proxy war with Russia.}