• Forget the ABCs — children in Vladimir Putin’s Russia are learning about the AKs.
• Distressing footage that emerged this week on Telegram shows an officer in fatigues demonstrating how to use a Kalashnikov machine gun and an anti-tank grenade launcher to youngsters at Kindergarten No. 31 near Moscow.
• According to the post by “Ostorozhno, novosti” (“Beware the news”), the lesson was delivered by Pavel Firsov, a member of the pro-Kremlin Combat Brotherhood movement.
• “The children from Kindergarten No. 31 ‘were reminded of what qualities distinguish a true defender of the Fatherland,’” the post read.

Tagged: World War III