There was once a military training camp for the young in Europe, known as the Crimea Sich, that took place every year in August for two weeks. It was located in Crimea, a peninsula right below Ukraine and Russia. The Cossacks — an ethnic minority of East Slavic people who in 2014 helped Russia annex Crimea from Ukraine — would send kids as young as 7 to military training camps to learn how to become “defenders of the homeland.” Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk spent parts of the last five years attending a military training camp in Crimea to see how …read more
Source: Business Insider
