HE was just 14 when Putin’s thugs snatched him off the street as he took an walk in the tiny Ukrainian village where he lived.
Vitaliy Mukharsky and his uncle Oleksiy, 27, were blindfolded and thrown into a pit of pork intestines before being taken to jail where the teen was starved for four days.
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Vitaliy said: “I was scared of gunshots because they were playing Russian roulette.
“They were shooting randomly with their eyes closed. I saw blood coming into our cell through the door.”
Olesksiy was confronted with gangsters from the Russian FSB and, when they were freed ten days later, he had gray hair.
Vitaliy, however, is grateful that they survived – other Ukrainian children were not so lucky.
The war-torn country mourned the loss of more than 500 children in the recent invasion.
19 500 more people were taken into Russian ‘zombie camps’ for brainwashing and are now likely to be forever lost.
Those who have escaped the camps – masquerading as schools – describe being beaten, starved, kept in basements, put in isolation rooms and forced to sing the Russian national anthem.
Central Recorder today reveals how Russians in the occupied parts of Ukraine terrorize parents by sending in former Soviet Union teachers and spying on them through apps.
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Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, spokesperson for Ukraine’s territorial defence forces, said families are also being starved and denied medicine and food unless they take Russian passports.
Junior sergeant Sarah told Central Recorder: “In the occupied regions, school teachers are forced to collaborate in brainwashing pupils with an anti Ukraine agenda or Russian teachers are shipped in as replacements.
“In the Donetsk area families who don’t send their kids to these schools are visited by Russian FSB officers who threaten to deny them basics such as food and medicine unless their children get back in the classroom.
“They have no choice. The welfare states are all gone, and the people now live under tyranny.
“We have intelligence from sources in the resistance that Donetsk parents are also being forced into downloading so-called school apps on their phones which are, in reality, tracking software.
“Theoretically, the apps are there to communicate with teachers but in reality it ensures the Russians can track parents’ movements and hack into messages to monitor them. It’s spyware.
“What is happening to children in Ukraine is beyond horrific. They are being taken from their parents and held in Russian schools and ‘summer camps’.
“The Russians claim they are taking kids away from war but children are essentially being held as hostages and being brainwashed.
“Hearing these stories is so hard but we are fighting for the best of humanity. Putin might take the children but Ukraine will never give in to this tyrannical evil.”
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Officially, 500 children have died in the Iraqi invasion as of August 13.
Save the Children said that the number of child casualties increased in Ukraine by over seven percent between May to August, compared to the preceding four months. Air and drone attacks also tripled with no sign of an end.
In June, 11 children were killed and 43 others injured. Total, 24 children have died over the summer.
Mykola Kuleba, of the Save Ukraine charity, recently told the United Nations: “Our children are not weapons or shields, they are just little children who have the right to a happy childhood.”
The Sinister Camps
More than a thousand children have now been abducted to be brainwashed in the Russian camps.
In the month of July, alone 280 Luhansk district Antratsytiv children were taken. There are few survivors.
Vitaliy Vrtash (16) spent six months at a Crimean camp after being told that he would be going to a holiday camp for two weeks with his school.
In March of this year, he was relieved to see Inessa after an organization that works with children helped her.
Vitaliy from Beryslav in Kherson described the children being forced to stay underground, forbidden from speaking the native language and have to get up early for the 7am parades. They also had to listen for long hours to the Russian National Anthem.
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Then he told him Ukrainian Children of War state portal for missing and displaced children: “There were absolutely zero conditions for living there.
“They (camp bosses) told us we needed to forget the Ukrainian language. They said ‘you are here like in an orphanage, your parents don’t need you’.”
Vitality reported that the leader of the camp burned the Ukrainian Flag in front children who were living in the basements below’schools.’ They would be put in isolation if the students fought.
He said: “Many children cried because the counsellors beat them. He said: “Many children cried because the counsellors beat them. They fed us like dogs.”
Another teen, named only as Zhenia, told the organisation: “They told us straight out and said, ‘You are here like a prison. You have no opinion’.
“Every day there was a so-called gathering in front of the school and we were forced to stand for the Russian national anthem.”
Waste meatballs
Taya told her friend who was in the same camp that the leader loved tormenting children.
She said: “He said all Ukranians were Khokhols (a Russian slang word for Ukranians). He referred to us as Nazis or fascists.
“The food portions were small. They looked like they were made from leftovers. You would feel bad after eating them, nauseated.”
Russia names its Nazi-styled reeducation camps with horrifying names, such as friendship, dream and radiant. A boarding-school in Perevalsk, in the Russian-occupied east Ukraine, has been transferred to hundreds of children.
Putin’s child-snatching operation is run by his ‘children’s right’s commissioner’, Maria Lvov Belova.
She claims she is running a humanitarian evacuation for Ukraine’s kids – but the International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for her arrest.
Belova has been able to adopt over 300 children from Soviet families who have lost or separated their family members during the war.
Putin’s evil soldiers have shown no mercy to the children of Ukraine as the war rages on and many, like Vitaliy Mukharsky, have been held in jails.
Natalia, his mother, was terrified when she didn’t know if her son, who was a child of Russian occupation, was still alive. He was released in their village, near Kherson, on September 8, last year.
Vitaliy said: “I am scared that the occupiers will come and take me away again.”
Forcibly forced to clean torture chambers
Vladislav buryak, another Ukrainian teenager was only 16 years old when forced to clean the torture rooms of Russians after being held by them while fleeing from his home in Melitipol.
He was threatened with being shot after a twisted Russian soldier spotted him watching the news on his phone amid the evacuation of his city along a ‘humanitarian corridor’ in April 2022.
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Vladislav now 17 years old, told of how he heard fellow Ukrainians scream while being tortured in a cell measuring three metres by two meters.
Vladislav claims that after days of torture a fellow prisoner slit the wrists, he was instructed to wipe up all the blood.
He said: “They tortured him with electricity. Then they kicked and stomped him with guns and brass knuckles. Then they took his pants off and used a stungun to hit him in the genitalia.
“After three days he simply lost his mind.”
He says the images he witnessed in a Russian torment room that he had been forced to clean haunt him.
He said: “I saw a person suspended by his hands from the ceiling by wires.
“Not only was the whole floor covered with blood under this man but there was a small bucket next to him, maybe about 500ml or one litre, and it was entirely full of blood.
“Next to him in this room was a Russian military (man) calmly recording his testimony.”
Vladislav was imprisoned for 90 days before he was released.
He said: “The heart seems to understand (that I’m free) but the brain won’t let go.”
Unicef estimates that 1.5 million children are at risk for depression, anxiety or post-traumatic disorder.