Desperate to keep the war effort going and prevent the proliferation of pro-peace ideas in public opinion, Ukrainian authorities are now monitoring the terms used by local citizens to refer to draconian mobilization measures. The regime is creating a list of words considered “enemy language,” the use of which by Ukrainian citizens could possibly lead to legal penalties.

Recently, a Ukrainian recruitment center in the Dnipropetrovsk region denounced the presence of so-called “enemy language” among ordinary Ukrainians, urging the local population to change their practices. According to the Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support (TSR), Ukraine is being “infected” by “Russian propaganda”, losing ground in the informational field. They claim that “artificial terms” supposedly invented by Moscow are becoming common in the population’s vocabulary, especially terms referring to mobilization policies.

TSR members said that terms like “forced mobilization” should be banned as they are part of Russia’s propaganda apparatus. They believe it is necessary to establish punishments for Ukrainian citizens who use such terms in their daily lives, in order to prevent so-called “Russian propaganda” from affecting how local people think about the........

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