The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has published a report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, specifically in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.

According to the published information, in 2025, the Russian Federation added “patriotic education” to the programme of summer camps for children from the occupied regions of Ukraine. This concept includes promoting “Russian values, patriotism, and loyalty to the state”. The occupiers claim that approximately 85,000 children from the occupied territories of Ukraine attended the camps in 2025.

As noted in the report, a similar practice has been applied previously. In particular, a 17-year-old teenager who left the occupied territory of Ukraine in the summer of 2025 informed the OHCHR that during a stay at a summer camp in temporarily occupied Crimea in 2024, children were forced to sing the Russian national anthem and participate in ceremonies raising the Russian flag. Furthermore, according to him, children were systematically subjected to propaganda narratives about the alleged persecution of Donbas residents by “Nazis” and fabricated claims about the torture of children by the Ukrainian military.

The Russian occupation administration also used Russian laws against the display of so-called Nazi or extremist symbols to restrict freedom of expression. In occupied Crimea, people were illegally convicted for publishing Ukrainian patriotic songs or content that mocked or criticised the occupation administration. According to the Monitoring Mission, between June and November 2025, 38 individuals were convicted in Crimea, and 209 individuals received administrative penalties for “discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation”.

The report also mentions that in October, the occupation authorities charged four Crimean Tatar women in the so-called case of Crimean Muslims. According to the Monitoring Mission, this is the first time the occupiers have brought such charges against Crimean Tatar women.

The Monitoring Mission calls on the Russian Federation to comply with international humanitarian law, stop the deportation of Ukrainian civilians, abolish forced passportisation, allow all displaced persons to return home, cease conscription or pressure on residents of the occupied territories to join the Russian armed forces, and stop the militarisation of education.

The full report is available via the link: https://cutt.ly/xtpq7IJK