{"id":1289488,"date":"2025-09-05T21:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/repression-is-not-discipline-kyiv-protests-against-tougher-punishment-for-military-personnel\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:35:15","slug":"repression-is-not-discipline-kyiv-protests-against-tougher-punishment-for-military-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/repression-is-not-discipline-kyiv-protests-against-tougher-punishment-for-military-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv Opposes Harsher Penalties for Military Personnel: \u2018Repression Is Not Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Friday, September 5, Kyiv saw the start of a protest against a draft law that seeks to increase criminal liability for military personnel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/news\/2025\/09\/5\/7529555\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported by<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Ukrainska Pravda&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Protesters gathered on Independence Square, demanding that Bill No. 13452 not be supported. In addition, protesters are demanding the adoption of a law on a military ombudsman and the introduction of clear service terms, Hromadske <a href=\"https:\/\/hromadske.ua\/kyyiv\/250821-na-maydani-nezaleznosti-protestuiut-proty-zakonoproyektu-iakyy-posyliuye-pokarannia-dlia-viyskovykh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports.<\/a><br \/>\nIn particular, the protesters chanted slogans such as \u201cService is not slavery\u201d and \u201cRepression is not discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, veteran Alina Sarnatska <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1BNRchdRu1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a> that the rally was peaceful and had been coordinated with the military administration and the Kyiv City State Administration.<br \/>\nShe also urged protesters to refrain from using loud noises and fire.<\/p>\n<p>We will remind that, in July, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ruky-het-vid-nabu-u-bahatokh-mistakh-ukrainy-prokhodiat-protesty-proty-likvidatsii-antykoruptsiynykh-orhaniv\/\">mass protests were held in Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Odessa, Lutsk, and Ivano-Frankivsk against draft law No. 12414<\/a>, which, according to activists, threatens the independence of the anti-corruption institutions NABU and SAPO.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, September 5, Kyiv saw the start of a protest against a draft law that seeks to increase criminal liability for military personnel. This was reported by &#8220;Ukrainska Pravda&#8221;. Protesters gathered on Independence Square, demanding that Bill No. 13452 not be supported. In addition, protesters are demanding the adoption of a law on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1266999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1289488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289539,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289488\/revisions\/1289539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}