An investigation by the international project OSSRP, dedicated to exposing crimes, has uncoveredrussia\u2019s systematic efforts to recruit Ukrainian teenagers from the temporarily occupied territories. This involves the \u201cyoung correspondents\u201d propaganda program under the auspices of the militarized \u201cyunarmiya\u201d movement during 2023\u20132024, which involved 140 active \u201cyoung correspondents.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under the guise of media clubs and trips to \u201cmedia forums\u201d in moscow, children are being prepared to wage an information war. Lectures by kremlin \u201cwar correspondents\u201d are combined with shooting exercises and military games. Supervisors demand that teenagers create \u201cpatriotic\u201d content about \u201ctheir own\u201d and discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Journalists have documented how this system is breaking the spirits of Ukrainian children, using the real-life stories of several teenagers from the temporarily occupied territories as examples. Children who once recited Ukrainian poetry now, as part of the \u201cyouth army,\u201d read texts about \u201cloyalty to putin\u201d and call Ukrainians \u201cexecutioners.\u201d The occupiers display these children\u2019s faces on murals as role models.<\/p>\n
Involving minors in propaganda for the occupier\u2019s benefit constitutes a violation of international law and is equivalent to forced conscription into the aggressor\u2019s army.
\nThe Center previously reported that the kremlin views young people in the temporarily occupied territories as a strategic resource, attempting to create a loyal generation and personnel for its propaganda machine through a system of \u201cupbringing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An investigation by the international project OSSRP, dedicated to exposing crimes, has uncoveredrussia\u2019s systematic efforts to recruit Ukrainian teenagers from the temporarily occupied territories. This involves the \u201cyoung correspondents\u201d propaganda program under the auspices of the militarized \u201cyunarmiya\u201d movement during 2023\u20132024, which involved 140 active \u201cyoung correspondents.\u201d Under the guise of media clubs and trips…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46658,"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-46657","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\/46657","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=46657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}