At least one Russian neo-Nazi believed guilty of war crimes in Donbas has for the second year in a row taken part in a Russian camp training children and young people how to fight and kill. The Kremlin-backed militants in Donbas are known to be using minors in the military conflict, and there are strong grounds for assuming that young people, some very young are being armed and trained for this purpose. This is one further reason for seeking the trial of the Russian mercenaries for war crimes. There are many others, and it is frustrating that Yan Petrovsky, the Russian neo-Nazi recently arrested in Norway was simply deported to Russia, and not extradited to Ukraine.
The ‘II Dmitry Donskoy International Military-Patriotic Camp’ was held from Sept. 9-11 2016 in the Moscow region (Pavlovo Posad district). Like an analogous event in September 2015, around 300 children and young people were involved, apparently from 19 so-called ‘military-sport organizations’. There is little pretence about what is going on, and not only because ‘international’ in this case means children from the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, as well as Belarus.
