A laboratory at Yale University has been documenting since 2022, thanks to satellite imagery, the locations where displaced Ukrainian children are located in Russia, revealing 210 reeducation and military camps where they are sent, explained its director to AFP, according to Agerpres. All this was made possible by a mistake made by the Russians: they forgot to deactivate the location services on their phones when they took selfies with some of the kidnapped Ukrainian children.
At the request of the US State Department this year, the Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) is tasked with estimating the number of children displaced by Russian authorities and the extent of the phenomenon, said its director, Nathaniel Raymond, who is in Stockholm for a seminar organized Monday in the Swedish Parliament and dedicated to this issue.
To start with, Nathaniel Raymond considers the task almost impossible.
“How do you find children hidden and protected by Russian security services? In a kidnapping case, where we only have the internet and satellite images?”, he asks.
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