In mid-November, the Russian-installed occupation authorities in the Ukrainian Black Sea region of Crimea approved a program of "preliminary military training" for schoolchildren of all ages beginning in the current academic year.
MorePresident Volodymyr Zelenskiy has lamented that the crisis in Crimea has fallen from global attention, and he pledged to "raise from the knees" the fate of the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Russia seven years ago.
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