The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (GUR) has published, in the “Child Abductors” section of the War&Sanctions portal, data on individuals and organizations involved in implementing the all-russian project “Cultural Map 4+85.” Within this framework, children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine are taken to the russian federation under the guise of so-called cultural and educational excursions.
The project was initiated by the ministry of culture of the russian federation and is implemented by the state structure “rosconcert.”
Its declared goal is “cultural familiarization with russia”; in reality, however, it is about integrating Ukrainian children into the russian socio-cultural space and shaping them into kremlin-loyal “new citizens”.
Among the perpetrators identified to date are Denis Oleksiiovych Buianov, Director General of the “Moscow Agency for Recreation and Tourism Organization,” an institution involved in the indoctrination of children from the temporarily occupied territories through propaganda excursions in the russian federation, as well as Andrii Volodymyrovych Yereshko, head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture “rosconcert.” “rosconcert” is responsible for implementing and organizing the “Cultural Map 4+85” project.
Such actions constitute part of russia’s humanitarian aggression aimed at erasing Ukrainian national identity, imposing a distorted historical memory and russian cultural narratives, and cultivating in the temporarily occupied territories a generation of children who are expected to identify as citizens of the aggressor state.
The identification of organizers and executors of these programs is an important step toward holding those responsible accountable and ensuring the inevitability of punishment for crimes against Ukrainian children.
As previously reported, the Ukrainian Intelligence published information on the War&Sanctions portal about individuals involved in the ideological re-education of Ukrainian children in the temporarily occupied territories.