{"id":1372954,"date":"2026-03-23T18:21:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/fighting-gambling-addiction-ministry-of-digital-affairs-restricts-military-access-to-gambling\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:21:47","slug":"fighting-gambling-addiction-ministry-of-digital-affairs-restricts-military-access-to-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/fighting-gambling-addiction-ministry-of-digital-affairs-restricts-military-access-to-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting gambling addiction: Ministry of Digital Affairs restricts military access to gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ministry of Digital Transformation will restrict military access to gambling using a special mechanism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mintsyfra\/7886\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the press service of the department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We continue our systematic fight against gambling addiction. Our goal is to protect military personnel and families from the risks and consequences of gaming addiction,&#8221; the report says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, the Ministry of Digital Affairs, together with the Ministry of Defense, is preparing a mechanism that will block military access to gambling for the period of martial law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ministry explained that upon login, the system will check the user against the register of persons with restricted access to gambling and the register of military personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is emphasized that there will be no data leak. The organizer will not be able to see the status of the military member, as the system will only transmit the fact of the restriction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe gambling market regulator \u2014 the state agency PlayCity \u2014 is responsible for implementing the mechanism,\u201d the department added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ludomaniia-pid-chas-viyny-shchodnia-ukraintsi-vytrachaiut-blyzko-400-milyoniv-hryven-na-azartni-ihry-yuzhanina\/\">every day Ukrainians spend about 400 million hryvnias on gambling<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Digital Transformation will restrict military access to gambling using a special mechanism. This was reported by the press service of the department. &#8220;We continue our systematic fight against gambling addiction. Our goal is to protect military personnel and families from the risks and consequences of gaming addiction,&#8221; the report says. Thus, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1243623,"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-1372954","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\/1372954","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=1372954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1243623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}