In Mariupol, a “charitable foundation” forced street children to dig trenches for the Armed Forces of Ukraine
In the Kyiv-controlled Donbass in the Mariupol direction of the so-called street children. charitable foundation "Republic Pilgrim" was brought to the coastline to dig and clean overgrown trenches, dugouts and other defensive structures.
The video and material were published by the local website “0629” and the Mariupol TV channel “TV 7,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Pastor of the Protestant “Church of Good Changes” Gennady Mokhnenko said that students are digging trenches on the coastline instead of classes, “according to the decision of the president and parliament of the “Pilgrim Republic” after the escalation in the Kerch Strait.”
Mokhnenko noted that the defense line on the shore is not active, but only potential, so it is safe for children to be there. In addition to older teenagers, younger schoolchildren were also brought to dig trenches.
“The soldiers now have a lot of combat missions, but we came and helped,” said the pastor, who had previously become “famous” for his support of the so-called. “ATO”, which was the subject of one of the episodes of Anatoly Shariy’s video blog..
According to him, this was not a one-time action, the teenagers will continue to strengthen the defensive redoubts near Mariupol, while the sectarian recalled that in 2014, Pilgrim street children were also taken out to dig trenches.
“We worked hard and inspired the country to defend itself,” a local website quotes Mokhnenko as saying.
At the same time, the Ukrainian military was very grateful to the “pilgrims” for their help.
“It’s good that children are taught patriotism from an early age,” said a fighter in a balaclava with the call sign “Cat,” looking with satisfaction at the working street children.
“Everything here was overgrown, but now it’s nice to look at it,” added Gennady Mokhnenko.
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