Welcome To The Camp That Trains 7-Year-Olds To Be Defenders Of The Russian Homeland

The Cossacks — an ethnic minority of East Slavic people who recently helped Russia annex Crimea from Ukraine — 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 four years attending a military training camp in Crimea to see how the pro-Russian, militaristic Cossacks train their young soldiers. Dondyuk shared some photos from the project with us here, and you can check out mor...