Gazprom and Rosneft have funded the deportation and ‘re-education’ of over 2000 Ukrainian children

This was revealed in a report by the Yale Human Rights Lab (YHL) dated 25 March 2026.

Researchers established that between 2022 and 2025, subsidiaries of Gazprom and the Rosneft trade union facilitated the removal of children from the Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions. They were sent to at least six camps in russia and in occupied Crimea: ‘Prometheus’, ‘Signal’, ‘Kubanskaya Niva’, ‘Art-Quest’, ‘Sputnik’ and the A.V. Kazakevich Children’s Camp.

Three of these camps are directly owned by Gazprom subsidiaries. The report notes that the children were subjected to pro-russian indoctrination and, in some cases, militarisation. In particular, at the ‘Prometheus’ camp, military training, hand-to-hand combat and shooting exercises were organised for the children.

russian corporations fully or partially funded these trips by providing vouchers. Between 2022 and 2023 alone, entities within the oil and gas companies issued 1,072 vouchers for visits to these camps.

Analysts at Yale University have identified 44 legal entities and individuals involved in this campaign. Around 80% of them, including subsidiaries, camps and their managers, are not currently subject to US or European Union sanctions.

The report emphasises that “the Trump administration’s temporary suspension of oil and gas sanctions in March 2026 financially rewards companies that actively support Putin’s systematic campaign to russify Ukrainian children.

‘Gazprom’ and “Rosneft”, with the cooperation of their subsidiaries and trade unions, deliberately engaged in the logistical planning, financing and coordination of operations that directly contributed to the so-called ‘patriotic re-education’ of Ukrainian children. They are voluntary accomplices in activities that led to the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova."

Source: Ukrainska Pravda