What we know about a video that the man is about to forced his dog in the van to serve military in Ukraine

A video that circulated online at the beginning of March 2025 allegedly showed Ukrainian military officers who force a man to lead his dog into a van to serve in Russia-Ukraine conflict and leave his pet on the street. The clip, which may have been received from home from home, showed a date of February 28th and a time from just before 8 a.m.

For example, an X user received around 15 million views on March 1st (archived), whose post (archived) received the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the video. “Yesterday Zelensky's military mediator snapped another young man off the street, threw him into a black van when he screamed, and left his dog behind. Thousands of videos online show the Ukraine that violently draw young men to fight in an unusual war. “Other users made similar Claims from The Clip To X.

A reverse image search for credible information about the video gave a result for an article by the Ukrainian media company Ukrainska Pravda. This article, which was cited as a source as a post of March 1 by an official Facebook page of the Ukrainian government for a military recruitment center in the city of Lutsk in Plyn Oblast, a region in northwest of Ukraine. The profile showed a creation date from 2015 and a page manager in Ukraine, which indicates its authenticity. The same contribution appeared on the Instagram and Telegram accounts of the center.

While the interpretations of the translation services were different in conversion of the Ukrainian-language Facebook contribution into English, a consensus reflected that the author claimed the man who was changing the dog, repeatedly tried to avoid military service. If he comes into question, such avoidance would violate a Ukrainian law of 2024 against men between 18 and 60, to register for the service and to always bear registration documents for them. In the law, only men between the ages of 25 and 60 came into question that the Ukrainian officials also examined reforms for younger men.

In the post office, one of the civil servants visible in the video accompanied the dog of the man back to the house of his owner and that because of the love of the man, they had assigned him to his pet to one of the military's dog units. Post did not provide any further information or evidence of supporting its claims, and the center had not yet answered any email from the request for comments in the evening of March 4.

English translation of the Ukrainian explanation

Google Translate and some other services provided the following translation of the contribution of the Ukrainian recruitment center in English:

A video clip is shared on social media that shows the military personnel of the Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support (TCC), which allegedly gave up the dog of a conscripts in the middle of the street. However, this fragment does not give a complete picture of events.

Why didn't someone film the rest?

In order to avoid speculation, manipulation and negative comments, we clarify the situation.

The citizen recorded on video is a military registration last person who has tried to avoid the service in every respect. He refused to appear in the territorial recruitment and social support center alone. The military staff of the TCC invited him to a duty, but the latter turned and left his dog. The military registration forces were nevertheless brought into the vehicle.

In the video, a military man will run next to the car and the same dog runs. As a result, the military accompanied the animal to the owner's house. The man himself showed where exactly his dog should be brought. There were two more dogs in the courtyard of the conscription.

As a result, the animal was handed over to the relatives of the conscripts. And given the love of animals of this citizen, he was sent to one of the dog units for further military service.

We remind you that it is important to check the information and not draw early emotional conclusions, which means that only fragmentary materials and assumptions are dependent.

✍️ Communication group of the Eyn Regional Territorial Center for recruitment and social support

Ukrainian conscription man, Zelenskyys Oval Office meeting

BBC News and other British publication The Times reported in 2024 about some acts of Ukrainian conscription troops, including the pulling of people from buses and train stations to find and mobilize men to war. Some of the stories contained cases of civil servants who ignored medical or other types of exceptions.

The US Vice President JD Vance referred to conscription squad during a fiery Oval Office meeting on February 28, in which President Donald Trump and Zelenskyy took part. During the discussion – one in which Trump and Vance Zelenskyy insult loudly – Vance sometimes said Zelenskyy “At the moment you are going around and forces conscripts to the front because you have any problems with workers. “

Later in the conversation, Vance asked: “Don't you agree that you had problems and brought people to your military?” Zelenskyy began to answer with a sentence that with “We have problems -before Vance continued to speak and stopped the thoughts of the Ukrainian president.

The same oval office meeting showed the presence of A Reporter of the Russian State Media Outlet Tass – a person who is not entitled to participate in the press bool of the day. The White House replied to an e -mail in which the only question was asked by How The TASS reporter managed to enter the meeting. Instead of answering the question, a nameless spokesman for the White House sent a outdated explanation in which he said that the TASS journalist did not appear on the approved list of media members of the day, and added that the press spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, at some point out the reporter from the oval office.

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