The head of the defense committee of the State Duma of Russia, Andriy Kartapolov, proposes to forcibly take Ukrainian children from the occupied territories to study in Russia.

“Of course, there are many problems there. Many things need to be restored, rebuilt from scratch, but the biggest problem today is people,” says Kartapolov.

“There are also children. And children are exactly the category that suffered the most from the Nazi Bander rubbish that simply brainwashed them. If we want these territories to be with us, to have a future as part of the Russian Federation, we should not focus primarily on veterans, although everyone is going through a difficult time,” he continues.

His comments came as Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the government in Moscow to repair housing and infrastructure in occupied areas of eastern Ukraine in a new bid to improve the Kremlin’s image.

“We have to take care of the children. Perhaps even our Suvovorovsky and Nakhimovsky cadet schools would have an additional recruitment, and we could send these children there,” says Kartapolov, adding that children forcibly removed from Ukraine could also be sent to other universities in Russia for free.

He says that they “cannot pay for their education today”, but this measure must be taken, “because then people will think that we are serious, that Russia is here for a long time – forever”, concludes the head of the State Duma. the defense committee of the lower house of the Russian parliament.

Andriy Kartapolov was elected to the Russian parliament on the lists of President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. Previously, he held several positions in the Russian Ministry of Defense and rose to the rank of colonel general of the Russian Armed Forces.

Russia is preparing to nationalize the houses of Ukrainians

Kartapolov’s comments came after the government in Moscow last week drafted a bill that would allow the de facto nationalization of Ukrainian homes in the occupied territories.

The project, developed by the Ministry of Construction of Russia, will allow the authorities of “subjects” of Russia to receive and use “unclaimed residential premises” to provide them to duty officers.

The official justification of the bill is the need to provide housing for war veterans, family members of deceased veterans, disabled people and their families, victims of accidents and natural disasters, and other socially vulnerable categories of the population.

But this will make it possible to declare the houses of Ukrainians who fled the occupation zone “unclaimed” and give them to Russian citizens, if these territories are officially annexed by Moscow, which is preparing referendums on this issue in all its occupied regions.

According to UN estimates, more than 12 million Ukrainians have fled their homes since the start of the war on February 24, with a large number of them coming from territories occupied by Russian armed forces.

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