Gazprom and Rosneft funded the ‘re-education’ of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories — study
This is according to a study by Yale University.
According to the study, Gazprom and Rosneft themselves, along with their subsidiaries, helped organise and financed the relocation and ‘re-education’ of at least 2,158 Ukrainian children from the Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine.
They were transported to six ‘camps’ within Russia and in the occupied territories of Ukraine. These include the ‘Prometheus’, ‘Signal’, ‘Kubanskaya Niva’, ‘Art-Quest’, ‘Sputnik’ and ‘A. V. Kazakevich Children’s Health Camp’ facilities.
Three of these facilities belonged to ‘Gazprom’, and as of March 2026, two of them are still owned by its subsidiaries, whilst the third has been put up for sale. The other three camps are privately owned.
Although the study takes into account data from 2022–2025, in 2015 Gazprom sent at least 15 Ukrainian children to the Kubanskaya Niva camp.
Russian fuel giants provided so-called vouchers that allowed children to attend the camp at a discount or for free. The study states that the companies did not always seek parental consent, and in some cases, the consent was invalid.
Researchers at Yale University emphasise that the study was published against the backdrop of the US allowing Russia to sell its own oil.
“As a result, Gazprom and Rosneft became the first known corporate entities linked to the Russian Federation to be directly implicated in alleged war crimes related to the deportation of children, whilst simultaneously profiting from American consumers’ spending at the time of this report’s publication,” the study states.
