A propaganda documentary film entitled “Our Children” was released in Russia. It tells about Ukrainian children who were taken to “Integration transformations” To the Russian health camps within the youth project “The Day After Tomorrow”. The film and project are an initiative of Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova. The International Criminal Court accuses her, along with Vladimir Putin, of illegally deporting Ukrainian children from the occupied territories to Russia. Ukrainian authoritiesIndependent researchers and journalists believe that projects such as “The Day After Tomorrow” were created to “indoctrinate” and “re-educate” Ukrainian children. Premiere of the movie “Our Children” It happened May 26 at Gorky Film Studio. Three days later the tape published In Okko cinema online. Let’s talk about this film and its creators.
“Their Children” is basically a big advertisement for the “The Day After Tomorrow” youth project. As part of this project, children from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as well as the occupied parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, are sent to children’s camps in Russia.
Until the fall of 2024, such trips are organized by the project organizers Named “Integration changes.” Later they became Designated With “Youth Transformations,” this comes from messages on the website of the Commissioner for Child Rights of Russia, Maria Lvova-Belova. From 2025 on transformations I started driving Not only Ukrainian children, but also teenagers from Russian military families participating in the war with Ukraine.
Total from organizers August 2022 spent 30 work shifts in health camps for children in the Moscow, Rostov, Smolensk regions, Krasnodar Territory and annexed Crimea. More than four thousand children were transported there from the occupied territories of Ukraine (the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions), the Russian border regions, which had been regularly under fire since the beginning of the war (the Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk and Smolensk regions), as well as from the partially recognized South Ossetia.
The project’s goal is to help teenagers who have “got through a difficult time.” This is exactly what the official page of “The Day After Tomorrow” calls the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Ukrainian authorities accuse Russia of illegally deporting children from Russian-occupied territories. The exact number of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia during the war is unknown. by the accounts From the Ukrainian side, we are talking about more than 20,000 minors in the country. Just over two thousand of them were repatriated.
One of the teenagers who managed to be returned to Ukraine said they had been subjected to physical violence at a Russian children’s camp and told lies, particularly that their Ukrainian parents had abandoned them.
Independent researchers from Yale University have produced several reports (1, 2, 3) about how they are trying to “re-educate” and militarize children from the occupied Ukrainian territories. This type of indoctrination is also carried out in children’s camps.
As Meduza discovered, from the beginning of the large-scale war, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation created a systematic basis for the “indoctrination” of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia. The ministry believes that Russian teachers and social workers should “re-educate” Ukrainian minors on the basis of “spiritual and moral values, historical traditions and cultural nationalism of Russia,” and as a result, deported children should “form a Russian identity.”
“OWN Children” was directed by Vladislav Kuznetsov – Author of the film “Fenni Pasha. Who is Behind the Secret Land?” and the series “Being a Gypsy” and “The Common Fund”. Russia’s main organized crime group.” All of which were also posted on Okko.
“Channel One” sincere Movie premiere, one of the stories on the evening news. There, “Our Children” was presented as a work about “children who survived for years under Ukrainian bombing,” as “a film about pain, overcoming and helping.”
The film tells the stories of several children from the annexed Ukrainian cities – Donetsk, Mariupol, Lugansk and Skadovsk. They talk about what they went through during the war, including bombings, wounds, and separation from their loved ones.
Their stories are interspersed with footage of marches, riots and military operations, as well as videos of “integration” bouts, where children play, exercise and do creative work, with counselors and psychologists allegedly trying to help them cope with the consequences of war.
“A kind of atmosphere is created here that automatically attracts them [детей] To be more responsive and more open. In general, this is the effect of military operations, which unites young people, makes them feel the taste and flow of life to a greater extent,” one counselor described what was happening in the camp.
In the end, the characters in the film state that they want to become volunteers and that they actually “go and help” other families affected by the war. And in the advertisement for the movie “Our Children,” one of the participants is also present to talkThat after the camp “the children will come to the front and help people”, but these words were not included in the final version.
“We really want our projects to be seamless, not ending with one work shift in the camp, so that we can continue to communicate with both children and parents,” Lvova-Belova said about the project.
The film’s oldest character, 18-year-old Dmitry Maisonnov, lives in Donetsk and is a second-year student at the journalism department at Donetsk State University. Installed Important Stories I have been doing Integration Transformations for several years. After these trips he become Permanent participant of the Russian state ProjectsOn social networks, he opposes the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ukrainian authorities, and also speaks about his support for Russia.
It is not known how much money was allocated to create the documentary. Neither Meduza nor Important Stories were able to find information about this in the public domain. The film was produced with support from the Internet Development Institute (IRI), Lenta.ru publication and the Country for Children charity, which runs the Day After Tomorrow programme.
The Fund is headed by Alexei Petrov, Advisor to the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman for Vova-Belova. He is known, among other things, for the fact that in 2011-2014 (at that time Petrov was 16-19 years old) he published on his social networks publications related to neo-Nazi topics. For example, he posted a photo of a Celtic cross T-shirt and a baseball cap with the numbers 88 on it, a caption with the phrase “Romanian salute, heart to sun,” as well as videos from the WotanJugend group and an advertisement for a neo-Nazi festival.