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Kremlin Introduces Propaganda Textbooks in Occupied Donbas Schools to Erase Ukrainian Identity
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In the temporarily occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Russia’s Military-Historical Society (RVIO) has presented new “textbooks on the history of Donbas and Novorossiya” for students in grades 5–7. The editions were prepared under the guidance of Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky, Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) reported.
The CCD described the books as a “regional component” of Russia’s unified history textbook line and said they advance a narrative of an “ancient connection” of the occupied territories to Russia while depicting Ukraine as the “enemy.”
RVIO own report on the launch in Donetsk, dated September 24, states that deputy chairman Nikolai Ovsienko “presented copies of the textbook on the history of Donbas and Novorossiya for grades 5–7,” adding that the volumes “supplement the unified line of history textbooks edited by Vladimir Medinsky and Academician Anatoly Torkunov.”
The CCD warned the materials are intended to shape attitudes through schooling, calling the books “one of the key tools for ideological indoctrination of children” and “an attempt to separate the younger generation from the Ukrainian state and culture, erase Ukrainian identity, and replace it with a Russian one.”
Earlier, it was reported that Russia introduced a three-volume “Military History of Russia” textbook for students aged 15 and older, edited by Vladimir Medinsky and framed to justify the war against Ukraine.
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