{"id":45521,"date":"2026-04-02T18:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=45521"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:18:36","slug":"how-russia-disrupts-the-evacuation-of-children-from-the-combat-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/how-russia-disrupts-the-evacuation-of-children-from-the-combat-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"How russia disrupts the evacuation of children from the combat zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda continues an information campaign aimed at disrupting the evacuation of children from frontline areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Pro-russian media circulated a video in which a woman with an infant claims to be from Myrnohrad, Donetsk region, and repeats the lies of russian propaganda that the Ukrainian police are \u201ckidnapping children\u201d and imprisoning mothers.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f She also claims that locals allegedly retrieve children after evacuation and return them to frontline towns \u201cin suitcases and bags,\u201d hiding them from Ukrainian military and police.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The spread of such unverified horror stories is a typical propaganda tactic. russia seeks to frighten parents in frontline areas to discourage evacuation and keep children in combat zones. The enemy uses such manipulation to turn the local population, including children, into a \u201chuman shield.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>russia cynically treats people in Donbas solely as expendable material for its propaganda narratives. While Ukrainian police and volunteers risk their lives under shelling to evacuate families to safe regions, hostile media glorify those who return children to life-threatening conditions\u2014under russian airstrikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda continues an information campaign aimed at disrupting the evacuation of children from frontline areas. \u25ab\ufe0f Pro-russian media circulated a video in which a woman with an infant claims to be from Myrnohrad, Donetsk region, and repeats the lies of russian propaganda that the Ukrainian police are \u201ckidnapping children\u201d and imprisoning mothers. \u25ab\ufe0f She&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45522,"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":934,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45521","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=45521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}