At the end of March, a video spread in Telegram channels, on which more than 20 teenagers dressed in military uniforms with the flag of Ukraine and body armor are going on a bus somewhere. The signatures to the video say that children are "preparing to be sent to the front." We checked what is actually happening on this video.
Telegram channel "Ukraine.ru”(146,000 views at the time of writing a analysis), commenting on the video, writes that“ Ukrainian teenagers are sent to the fields in the fields - they are preparing for faithful death there, ”that is, to fight against“ tanks and artillery, not to mention more technological weapons of the RF Armed Forces ”. “Remember, there were jokes that Zelensky will soon send children to the trenches? This is not a joke, ”the authors conclude. In a similar way, some Russian media interpreted the video. So, publication "Politicus" It wrote: "A group of Ukrainian teenagers in military uniform is taken to the landfill, from where, according to preliminary information, they can be sent to the front." And the TV channel "Ren-TV" He suggested that "after a few months, when it was 18, they will probably get to the front line."
With less specific signatures like “already adolescents are prepared for slaughter” and “Ukrainian teenagers are preparing to fight for Zelensky’s mode”, such Telegram channels shared a video as “Pozdnyakov 3.0"(410,000 views),"KB 18+"(367 000),"Uncle Glory"(207 000) and"Ostashko! Important"(118 000). This video also spread to Facebook And X on English, Italian, Portuguese and other languages. Ex-employee of the US State Department under Donald Trump Michael Benz He commented on the video in X, by writing that his country is sponsored by the use of a soldier-soldier in Ukraine, and the owner of the social network Ilon Musk Bents answered: "Sacrifice to youth in vain."
At the time of the appearance of this video in Telegram channels-March 29, 2024-men aged 27 to 60 years were subject to military call to mobilize in Ukraine. April 2, the country's president Vladimir Zelensky signed law About a decrease in the lower bar for two years: now in the conditions of martial law it will be possible to call out Ukrainians from 25 years old. At the same time, the participation of minor children in hostilities and the involvement of minors in paramilitary formation in Ukraine by legislative forbidden.
Teenagers in the video look much younger than 25 years old, and, as Telegram users rightly note, they look still schoolchildren. Judging by stripes on their sleeves, these are cadets Kyiv Military Lyceum. Ivan the Bogun. In the photographs from the official page of the institution on Facebook you can see Exactly the same chevrons on the shape of cadets and teachers.
In the Lyceum Accept Young men and girls after the 7th or 9th grade of secondary school, that is, at the time of receipt of cadets can be from 13 to 16 years old.
Kyiv Military Lyceum named after Ivan the Bogun was created In 1992, on the basis of the Kyiv Suvorov Military School. In addition to general educational subjects, cadets study the basics of military and medical training, as well as other specialized disciplines. The educational program includes regular trips to workout for fire preparation.
On the Lyceum page on Facebook published some Report videoswho were shot on such trips. The stylistically viral video is similar to a fragment of one of these records-many reporting videos just begin with the scene on the bus on the road to the training base. Moreover, on rollers taken in spring and autumn, cadets are dressed in a very similar shape.
The earliest publication of the video with adolescents, who are supposedly “prepared for slaughter”, appeared in the Telegram channel ”Pozdnyakov 3.0"March 29 at 11:56 pm Moscow time. This channel, like the other mentioned at the beginning of the analysis, is not the first to spread fakes On the mobilization of minor Ukrainians or about "set In Ukrainian detachments of minor militants. ” "Checked"And other facts Projects already Disassembled Similar materials came to the conclusion that they were misinformation.
Thus, teenagers in video are not mobilized schoolchildren who are prepared for sending to the front, but cadets of the military lyceum. And they are not taken “to slaughter”, but, apparently, to the exercises that are included in the educational program of the lyceum.
Photo on the cover: Telegram
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