Children of the Occupied Territories of Ukraine

The article examines the strategies of the Russian Federation’s influence on the youth of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. The comparative analysis made it possible to determine the main differences in the Russian strategy of de-Ukrainization of the child population of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, certain areas of Donbas and regions of Ukraine temporarily occupied by the armed forces of the Russian Federation in 2022. The approaches of the Russian military-political leadership and the occupation administrations controlled by them depended on the region, the length of its stay under the occupation, the intentions regarding the Ukrainian youth in the short-term and long-term perspectives: maintaining the level of loyalty to Russia and its regimes, forced mobilization, violent deportation, illegal adoption, etc.