{"id":5152,"date":"2026-04-05T08:27:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:23:57","slug":"ukrainian-children-harassing-draft-officers-ombudsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/ukrainian-children-harassing-draft-officers-ombudsman\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian children \u2018harassing\u2019 draft officers \u2013 ombudsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Viral videos showing violence toward reluctant recruits on the streets are affecting young people, Olga Reshetilova has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian schoolchildren are increasingly <em>\u201charassing\u201d<\/em> draft officers on the streets after watching viral TikTok videos of the officers attempting to press reluctant recruits into service, Ukraine\u2019s military ombudsman, Olga Reshetilova, has said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on NV Radio on Saturday, Reshetilova accused Russia of spreading videos of violent acts amid the conscription campaign \u2013 which has become known in Ukraine as \u2018busification\u2019 \u2013 but conceded that the narrative has found <em>\u201cfertile ground.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSchoolchildren, having watched Russian TikTok videos about the recruitment centers, start harassing people in military uniform on the streets,\u201d<\/em> she said, calling it <em>\u201ca very dangerous signal, because children\u2019s psyche is not ready.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Ukrainian recruitment officers check a civilian\u2019s documents during street patrols targeting men of fighting age.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d1fbe12030272b630af64a.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/637320-two-conscription-officers-stabbed-ukraine\/\">Two conscription officers stabbed in Ukraine<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reshetilova also noted that parents are compounding the problem by openly discussing forced conscription in front of their children.<\/p>\n<p>She added that when <em>\u201cteenage aggression is directed at servicemen, this requires our counteraction,\u201d<\/em> such as pursuing a <em>\u201cnationwide information policy\u2026 in cultivating respect for a person in uniform.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reshetilova\u2019s comments come amid Ukraine\u2019s contentious draft campaign, which has spawned thousands of videos showing officers clashing with reluctant recruits. Some altercations result in serious consequences, including injuries and even death in some documented cases. Many of the clips also feature ordinary civilians trying to protect people from being pressed into military service.<\/p>\n<p>A Council of Europe report in July 2025 found systemic human rights violations in Ukraine\u2019s recruitment process, citing beatings and the conscription of people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>While Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has acknowledged issues with the draft and ordered defense officials to implement the necessary reforms, the head of his office, Kirill Budanov, dampened hopes for swift reform, stressing that forced conscription is vital to staving off a collapse of the front lines and replenishing battlefield losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viral videos showing violence toward reluctant recruits on the streets are affecting young people, Olga Reshetilova has said Ukrainian schoolchildren [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5155,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions\/5155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}