Russian observers have increasingly touched on Moscow’s renewed efforts to militarize youth and prepare (or “breed”) them for war...These efforts all point to Moscow’s growing reliance on the state-registered Cossack movement to militarize Russian youth and prepare them for the current war and future conflicts...The indoctrination of youth under the guise of “reviving Cossack culture” is one of the primary ways the Kremlin has been consolidating its control over the illegally annexed regions of Ukraine