Air pistols; automatic rifles; sniper and air rifles have been purchased for the Artek children’s camp in occupied Crimea, with this Russia’s latest criminal use of weapons to attract Crimean children to the occupiers’ army and to inculcate a war-focused notion of ‘patriotism’. All of this, human rights activists stress, is part of a major war crime that Russia is committing on illegally occupied territory.
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Halya Coynash: Russia instils ‘patriotism’ in Crimea with automatic rifles
An illustration picture taken on Nov. 28, 2019, in Moscow shows an Apple map with the Crimea peninsula on a smartphone screen.
