In April 2025, the news spread that in the Ukrainian capital several minors were held accountable for public listening to songs in Russian. The woman allegedly conveyed by a woman passing to them. We checked the reliability of this story.
Publications on the arrest of adolescents for listening to the music of Russian -speaking performers in the center of Kyiv, appeared on April 13. They reported that when minors listened to the Russian rap, a woman approached them, made them a remark and asked them to turn off the song. In her opinion, such behavior of young men a few hours after the shelling of Sum, which entailed numerous sacrifices among the civilian population, was inappropriate. The teenagers did not listen to the woman, which she later allegedly reported to the police. Some resources clarify that after refusing to turn off the music, the guys in protest turned on the Russian anthem at full volume, and the law enforcement agencies, after drawing up the protocols, made them apologize for the camera.
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The conflict, during which the woman made a remark and asked to turn off the songs in Russian, hit the video. Several young people stand near the shop, and a Russian -speaking composition plays in the column. Service Shazam recognized in it the song “re -win” the Russian performer Pepel Nahudi. The woman who shot the video approaches the guys and says in Ukrainian: “Sorry, could you turn off Russian music, please?” In response to this, the teenagers laugh and, despite the objections of some of them, include another song, the first notes of which resemble the anthem of Russia. The author’s titat indicates that the events unfold on April 13 on Contract Square in the center of Kyiv, and it is specified that the video was shot “six hours after Sumy”. On that day, Russian troops Fired The city of Sumy, at least 35 people died as a result of blows. Also at the end of the video, the author indicates that another girl who apologized and promised to control the situation approached her. The author posted a record on his pages on social networks. Now only available video clip On the blog on Instagram, and it is slightly different from the viral. The original record, according to the author, was published In Tiktok, but it was demolished. The video was widely distributed by Ukrainian Internet users And Media - Only the video on Instagram has almost half a million views and more than 3,000 reposts now.
The next day, April 14, the Main Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine for Kyiv reportedthat the police identified three participants in the incident-two 17-year-old adolescents and one 20-year-old young man. They explained their behavior with strong alcohol intoxication. The police pressed indicated that law enforcement officers drew attention to the situation during the monitoring of social networks, that is, the author of the video, apparently, did not write a statement after the events on Contract Square. In her accounts in social networks, she also does not confirm this.
It is known from the press release that the detainees of young people were brought to administrative responsibility, but not for listening to Russian-speaking music, but for drinking alcoholic beverages or being intoxicated in public places (Article 178 of Ukraine on administrative offenses, Code of Administrative Offenses) and for petty hooliganism (Article 173 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The parents of two minor offenders also drew up protocols for failure to fulfill the duties of raising children (Article 184 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). What kind of sanctions were applied, not specified, but Administrative Code Ukraine says that for public drinking of alcoholic beverages for the first time, a warning or a fine of up to five non -taxable minimum income of citizens (a conditional unit used in Ukraine to determine the sizes of fines and awards. Component 17 UAH). Small hooliganism (this includes obscene abuse in public places, offensive behavior and other similar actions that violate the public order and calmness of citizens) entails a fine of three to seven non -taxable minimum income of citizens, public work or administrative arrest for up to 15 days. Judging by the fact that young people were released, each of them most likely paid a fine of about $ 5.
On the same day, three videos also appeared on the Web, in which each of the detainees apologized for his behavior before the "all Ukrainian people." Videos spread In Ukrainian Telegram channels and the media, which claim that they received them from some sources.
Listening to songs in Russian in itself did not result in any punishment for young people, although since 2022 in Ukraine, indeed, forbidden public reproduction of music of performers associated with the aggressor state (which Russia was recognized Back in 2015). The legislation allows you to listen to such songs in private - at home, in a car or through headphones. For violation of this norm, a fine faces. The exception is provided only for the songs of those Russian artists who publicly condemned the invasion of Ukraine, filed an application to the SBU and agreed to publish this fact. Such performers can be added to a special white list, but it was not possible to find it in the public domain.
Moreover, in Kyiv, as in some others cities, rules In this area, even stricter. In the Ukrainian capital, since 2023, public reproduction of any Russian -speaking songs, regardless of citizenship of the performer or composer, has been prohibited. That is, formally, adolescents could be held accountable for reproducing the composition that they listened, but this did not happen.
That the young men were detained precisely because of their musical preferences, the first reported Telegram channel "Kupyansk Our". His post was published an hour and a half after the press release of the Ukrainian police, which spoke of protocols for petty hooliganism and drinking alcoholic beverages.
The topic of restrictions on the use of the Russian language in public space in Ukraine has been attracting the attention of pro-Kremlin media and Telegram channels. Often (especially before the start of a full -scale invasion), publications were based on manipulations or exaggerations. "Checked" Disassembled some Such news.
Thus, the news that adolescents in Kyiv were detained for listening to songs in Russian is torn from context. In fact, the protocols for three young men made up small hooliganism and drinking alcoholic beverages in public places, even though they really violated the ban on public reproduction of Russian -speaking music in the Ukrainian capital.
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