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Belarus! The country whose existence you only know about from Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?!
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Belarus state television is reporting that authorities sent a recently arrived group of Ukrainian children from occupied Ukraine to train with the Belarusian military to learn how to evacuate in the event of a fire.
The report, released on Wednesday, referred to some 35 children from the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Antratsyt in eastern Ukraine.
The Belarus1 state television channel said the children are being housed in a sanatorium and are being cared for by employees from the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
State television footage released on Wednesday showed the Ukrainian children wearing the Russian flag sewn onto their sleeves.
The state television program said the Belarusian military is conducting “emergency survival training” for the children.
The Prosecutor General of Ukraine has said Belarus is also being investigated over the alleged forced deportation of more than 19,000 children from occupied Ukrainian territories.
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Well, Lukashenko just copy cats whatever daddy Putin does, so that accusation certainly tracks to be true…