In the former Soviet sports camp "Leader" near Kiev Ukrainian teach children military training, making them essentially ultranationalists, writes journalist Spanish publication El Confidencial Ethel Bonet.
Bonet visited this camp. It is trained to 200 Children must 16 years. Length of stay - 20 days. The cost of training per day -18 dollars. In the camp no website, but its advertising can be found in the "Facebook". Disseminate information and through a friend
Instructors in military uniforms combine theoretical sessions with practical military training. Children practice shooting from a pump action shotguns, in disassembling and assembling Kalashnikov, athletics and swimming. Of music - nationalist anthems and Ukrainian punk rock. Drill held under the "accompaniment" nationalist slogans.
In the evening - the children in uniform with torches, Balaclava with their faces and raised his right hand with the palm straightened. Around fluttering red-black cloth ultra, He writes journalist.
According to her,, Director of this institution is considered a hero Ivan Granatkin euromaidan. AT 2014 , he was in the forefront of the protesters. From head to foot he was covered in tattoos, on his shaved head - a tuft of hair, braided in a pigtail.
Granatkin considers, that gives children the patriotic education in the conditions of the ongoing war in the Donbas.
Deputy Granatkin Alexey Zabolotny stated in his turn, that Ukrainian children need to be prepared to confront the "Russian aggressors", which will have to fight sooner or later.
The journalist notes, that this is not the only such camp in the Ukraine. And for the fourth year in which the children are trained. In this case, any educational elements in these institutions and does not smell.
Even if the conflict in eastern Ukraine will be resolved peacefully, the threat of its recurrence will remain, because the younger generation is brought up in a spirit of hatred of the, who is behind the line of contact. This military pumping children is mine ticking under the future of Ukraine, Bonet concludes.
