Some Ukrainian teenagers were told that they needed to go to a "camp" in Russian-occupied Crimea for school only to have no way of returning home, The Washington Post reported.
Students from Kherson, which was seized by Russian troops in March 2022, told the Post their school directors pressured them to go to the "camp."
In one case, Denys Berezhnyi, who was 17 at the time, was studying to be a locksmith when a school official told him in October 2022 that he would need to go to the camp and that his parents had already signed off on legal documents allowing Berezhnyi to travel, according to the Post.
Berezhnyi told the publication that the parents were unaware of signing any document.