ru-propaganda continues its campaign to discredit the Ukrainian Defense Forces, this time targeting the Military Chaplaincy Service.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f russian propaganda media are spreading absurd claims that Ukrainian chaplains are involved in forming \u201cbarrier units\u201d within the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They allege that chaplains are \u201cformer members of nationalist battalions\u201d and are trained according to \u201cNATO instructions.\u201d As \u201cevidence,\u201d a speaker in a propaganda video displays religious literature, documents, and Ukrainian military awards.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f In reality, these claims are false. The activities of Ukraine\u2019s Military Chaplaincy Service are regulated by law and aimed at providing spiritual and psychological support to service members, not performing policing or punitive functions. Chaplains are unarmed, do not participate in combat, and have no authority to form any military units.<\/p>\n
The purpose of this campaign is to sow distrust toward military leadership and chaplains, discredit the Military Chaplaincy Service as an institution, and demoralize Ukrainian service members.<\/p>\n
Claims about the existence of \u201cbarrier units\u201d in the Ukrainian military are also fabricated. The Center has repeatedly debunked russian fakes on this topic. This is a persistent propaganda narrative with no evidence, used solely to provide informational cover for russia\u2019s own crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ru-propaganda continues its campaign to discredit the Ukrainian Defense Forces, this time targeting the Military Chaplaincy Service. \u25ab\ufe0f russian propaganda media are spreading absurd claims that Ukrainian chaplains are involved in forming \u201cbarrier units\u201d within the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They allege that chaplains are \u201cformer members of nationalist battalions\u201d and are trained according to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46449,"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-46448","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\/46448","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=46448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}