{"id":34507,"date":"2025-10-08T03:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/in-crimea-the-occupiers-check-schoolchildrens-phones-for-vpn-and-ukrainian-language\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T03:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:01:14","slug":"in-crimea-the-occupiers-check-schoolchildrens-phones-for-vpn-and-ukrainian-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/in-crimea-the-occupiers-check-schoolchildrens-phones-for-vpn-and-ukrainian-language\/","title":{"rendered":"In Crimea, the occupiers check schoolchildren&apos;s phones for VPN and Ukrainian language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In educational institutions of occupied Crimea, representatives of the Russian authorities and military personnel are checking schoolchildren&#039;s phones. They are looking for &quot;undesirable&quot; applications and the Ukrainian language in the settings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F10%2F08%2F1759889197-2211-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"In Crimea, the occupiers check schoolchildren&#039;s phones for VPN and Ukrainian language\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In educational institutions of temporarily occupied Crimea, representatives of the Russian authorities and military personnel check students&#039; phones for &quot;undesirable&quot; applications and the Ukrainian language in the settings. This is reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), transmits  UNN.   <\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>Activists of Ukrainian movements in the temporarily occupied territories report that in Crimean schools, representatives of the occupation administration, together with Russian military personnel, are checking children&#039;s mobile phones.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They are looking for prohibited applications, VPN services, and even the Ukrainian language in the settings. If a Ukrainian layout is found on the phone, the child and their parents may be summoned &quot;for a conversation&quot; or subjected to additional checks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the post says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Such &#039;raids&#039; are another tool of total control and ideological pressure. The occupiers seek to eradicate any manifestations of Ukrainian identity. Checking students&#039; phones is not &#039;concern for safety,&#039; but a systemic attempt to intimidate children and impose loyalty to the Russian regime,&quot; the CCD added.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>Russia  introduced  new rules for controlling bloggers: all Telegram channels with more than 10,000 subscribers, including in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, must connect a &quot;Roskomnadzor&quot; bot, which gains full access to content and audience.    <\/p>\n<p>Mobile internet disappeared in Melitopol, Google Play and VPN blocked &#8211; CNS28.09.25, 23:33 \u2022 12949 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In educational institutions of occupied Crimea, representatives of the Russian authorities and military personnel are checking schoolchildren&#039;s phones. They are looking for &quot;undesirable&quot; applications and the Ukrainian language in the settings. In educational institutions of temporarily occupied Crimea, representatives of the Russian authorities and military personnel check students&#039; phones for &quot;undesirable&quot; applications and the Ukrainian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}