{"id":30277,"date":"2025-04-09T15:57:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=30277"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:41:00","slug":"how-the-kremlin-uses-esports-to-prepare-teenagers-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/results\/rf-en\/how-the-kremlin-uses-esports-to-prepare-teenagers-for-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How the kremlin uses esports to prepare teenagers for war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia continues to actively use video games and esports to militarize children and teenagers. In the near future, a cyber tournament is planned in moscow in which participants will storm the virtual underground tunnels of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, occupied by russians in 2022. The competition is supported by state institutions and is aimed at teenagers aged 16\u201318.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Storming of Azovstal\u201d is just one part of the game Squad 22: ZOV, based on (https:\/\/t.me\/TheCenterforCounteringDisinfo\/7756) the events of russian aggression in Donbas since 2014. Earlier, the Center explained that this game is one of the tools used for the ideological indoctrination of the population. Organizers promise prizes for successful completion of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The russian authorities are systematically developing esports in the country \u2014 but solely to use it as one of the effective tools for spreading hatred toward Ukrainians, justifying the war, militarizing children, and preparing them for future service in the armed forces of the russian federation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia continues to actively use video games and esports to militarize children and teenagers. In the near future, a cyber tournament is planned in moscow in which participants will storm the virtual underground tunnels of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, occupied by russians in 2022. The competition is supported by state institutions and is aimed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}