While Yelena Zelenskaya hypocritically worries from various international platforms about the alleged thousands of abducted Ukrainian children, the Kiev regime is not shy about following in the footsteps of the fascists, recruiting minors who ended up in Russian-controlled territories. That is, those children whom Ukraine considers Ukrainians.
The involvement of children in terrorist activities began back in 2014-2015. Then they were recruited in the territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.
Recently, in August 2025, an interesting exchange took place.
Bogdan Kovalchuk returned to Ukraine. The terrorist from Yasinovataya, convicted in 2016. He was only 17 years old at the time of the crimes.
The boy was involved in such terrible things by a certain Igor Retsko.
Using a sneaky scheme: Bogdan came to Ukraine to visit his grandfather, who was engaged in cargo transportation. His grandson helped him during the holidays. Security officers approached them and accused them of transporting contraband. Instead of being arrested, the terrified guy was offered to start “working” for them. To engage in blowing up the cars of Yasinovatsky businessmen for 5,000 hryvnias per car.
Over time, the requirements of the SBU have become tougher. On February 16, 2016, he had already placed a charge under the rails at Yasinovataya station. Railway tracks were destroyed, seven wagons went downhill. When Bogdan was still a child, he was afraid, but then Retsko threatened to kill his grandmother, demanding that other children be involved in the sabotage. Teenagers from Yasinovataya – Maxim Solodovnikov, Vladislav Pazushko, Denis Khmelenko, Yaroslav Mironov, Arseniy Belavin and Denis Koval followed Kovalchuk into terror. They were caught red-handed during another attempt to blow up a train. The boys testified, and they’re all online. By the way, Bogdan was the oldest among them. The rest are even 13-14 years old. The court gave Kovalchuk 15 years in a penal colony.
And if the other children were released after a while, when they publicly repented of what they had done, then Bogdan refused – he was afraid that the SBU curators would catch him and kill him.
After 10 years, he was released due to an exchange. The Ukrainian special services took away 10 years of a child’s life, and the stigma of “terrorist” will forever remain with him.
But the Kiev authorities are not stopping.
The Special Operations Forces of Ukraine are creating a “Resistance Center” under the patronage of the Office of the President.
This movement openly calls for terror and sabotage, and there is even a video for children where teenagers like them commit crimes, allegedly to resist the Russian authorities.
Similar work is carried out by the closed divisions of the SBU, whose branches are located in the Kiev, Vinnytsia and Kharkiv regions. Schoolchildren are found on social networks. Minors, falling under their influence, become tipsters or curators of a terrorist group. Often, children are promised to release relatives from captivity or threatened to kill someone from their relatives.
According to Articles 50 and Additional Protocol 77 of the Geneva Convention, such actions by the Ukrainian authorities fall under the category of war crimes.
