Kremlin wants Ukraine to be associated with terrorism - rights activists

That’s according to Pavlo Lysyanskyi, founder of the Eastern Human Rights Protection Group, who reflected on the issue in a Facebook post, Ukrinform reports.

"The Eastern Human Rights Protection Group shared a document drawn by the Kremlin's dictatorial regime entitled: ‘Comprehensive plan for countering the ideology of terrorism in the Russian Federation for 2024-2028’. In the document, next to the word ‘terrorism’, the word ‘Ukraine’ is systematically used (‘Ukrainian special agencies’, ‘Ukrainian neo-Nazis’, etc.). No other names of terrorist organizations are mentioned in the document," Lysyanskyi wrote. 

The plan recommends that "during the implementation of educational programs pre-emptive measures be taken aimed at clarifying the criminal nature of terrorist, Ukrainian nationalist and neo-Nazi organizations."

Teenagers and children "who were under the influence of Ukrainian nationalist and neo-Nazi structures" are mentioned separately.

The plan lays down the need to "conduct thematic events aimed at explaining to younger people the essence of terrorist, Ukrainian nationalist and neo-Nazi ideologies", etc.

"The Kremlin’s dictatorial regime  deliberately pursues a policy of discrediting Ukraine, which is targeting children and teenagers in the Russian Federation. This is the technique of creating an image of an enemy for the younger generation in the Russian Federation," human rights activists summarize.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, the invaders are teaching Ukrainian children in the occupied territories to fly drones.