Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) has published personal data of 10 Russian teachers who relocated to temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories (TOT) to participate in the ideological re-education of Ukrainian children, according to a statement released Thursday, Nov. 20, on the War&Sanctions platform.
The information appears in the “Child Kidnappers” section of the portal, which documents individuals involved in the forced assimilation, indoctrination, and exploitation of Ukrainian minors under Russian occupation.
HUR reports that Russia continues to conduct what it calls cultural genocide, expanding its nationwide “Zemsky Uchitel” (“Rural Teacher”) program into occupied areas of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Kherson regions.
Under the initiative, teachers from the Russian Federation relocate to these territories to work in local schools and receive double compensation payments amounting to 2 million rubles (about $25 000).
According to Ukrainian intelligence, the goal of this policy is to create a controlled educational environment, impose Russian ideological narratives, and cultivate a Russian identity among Ukrainian children living under occupation.
HUR notes that some Russian teachers join the program for personal or ideological reasons. One example is Tatiana Belaborodova, a teacher of Russian language and literature, who moved from Russia’s Khabarovsk Krai to the village of Komyshuvate in the Mariupol district of Donetsk Oblast. She reportedly relocated in part to be “closer to her husband,” who is fighting in the Russian Armed Forces against Ukraine.
Ukrainian intelligence emphasizes that identifying the individuals who organize and carry out such activities is a crucial step toward restoring justice and ensuring accountability for crimes committed against children in occupied territories.
HUR also recalled that the War&Sanctions portal had earlier published information on individuals involved in the militarization of Ukrainian children in occupied regions and their forced adoption by Russian citizens.
The War&Sanctions platform, created and maintained by HUR, has in just a year and a half become a global tool for documenting supply chains, tracking sanctioned entities, and exposing foreign components enabling Russia’s war machine.
More than one million users worldwide, including governments, banks, corporations, and NGOs, have relied on the portal’s database. Its materials are routinely cited by major international media.
Earlier this month Kyiv Post reported that published a detailed three-dimensional diagram of the Russian “Orion” strike-reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle and released data identifying 43 enterprises involved in its production, the agency said in a statement posted on the War&Sanctions portal.
In a special feature under its “Weapons, Components in Arms” series, HUR said the Orion – also referred to in Russian sources as the “Inokhodets” – is manufactured by the sanctioned Russian industrial group Kronstadt and has become a key element of Russia’s growing drone arsenal. The intelligence service provided technical specifications and highlighted the industrial network that supplies critical subsystems for the aircraft.