![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/russian-kids-as-young-as-nursery-age-receiving-military-training-in-their-playgrounds/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_Russian-kids-as-young-as-nursery-age-receiving-military-training-in-their-playgrounds.jpg&description=Pre-school children take part in marching practice in photographs taken across Russia - and older kids are even being taught how to dig trenches and throw grenades Children as young as four are receiving military training in playgrounds across Russia, it has emerged. Youngsters take part in marching practice and older kids are even being taught how to dig trenches and throw grenades in the nation. Some kids as young as seven are being shown how to shoot weapons with real ammunition - at their schools. National curriculum is being changed in Russia to prepare children for war. The drive has happened following the nation's invasion of Ukraine, which Russian government says has led to a huge outcry of patriotism across the country. There are now, therefore, mandatory classes on military-patriotic values, and updated history books accentuate Russian military triumphs. Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov has ordered schools to take children on excursions to military units, and host "military-sports games, meetings with military personnel and veterans," as well as classes on drones. A new course in schools - "Fundamentals of Security and Defence of the Motherland" - is now mandatory, after Vladimir Putin signed a law to introduce it last month. Senior school students will also be taught to use live ammunition "under the guidance of experienced military unit officers or instructors exclusively at the firing line," according to Putin's government. This programme will be introduced next year, it is said. An Education Ministry document states the changes will instil in students "an understanding and acceptance of the aesthetics of military uniforms, military rituals and combat traditions" as the invasion of Ukraine continues. However, Putin has repeatedly framed this as a "special mission" to protect Russian speakers from genocide at the hands of "neo-Nazis." And in July, children in Belgorod gave themselves call-signs – one adopted "Sledgehammer" – and took part in exercises){kind=link}
Pre-school children take part in marching practice in photographs taken across Russia – and older kids are even being taught how to dig trenches and throw grenades
Children as young as four are receiving military training in playgrounds across Russia, it has emerged.
Youngsters take part in marching practice and older kids are even being taught how to dig trenches and throw grenades in the nation. Some kids as young as seven are being shown how to shoot weapons with real ammunition – at their schools.
National curriculum is being changed in Russia to prepare children for war. The drive has happened following the nation’s invasion of Ukraine, which Russian government says has led to a huge outcry of patriotism across the country.
There are now, therefore, mandatory classes on military-patriotic values, and updated history books accentuate Russian military triumphs. Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov has ordered schools to take children on excursions to military units, and host “military-sports games, meetings with military personnel and veterans,” as well as classes on drones.