To honor the memory of all the children killed in Ukraine since 2014, let's do what's necessary to protect them!

To honor the memory of all the children killed in Ukraine since 2014, let's do what's necessary to protect them!

Greg Krasovsky

July 18, 2022

  

July 18th is a memorial day (a day of mourning) for the 2000 children who were killed by Nazi Germany's Air Force during their evacuation from Leningrad in 1941.
 
But let’s not forget the children who died in the Donetsk Coal Basin (Donbass) from 2014 to the present, the vast majority at the hands of the Ukrainian military forces, volunteer territorial battalions, foreign fighters and other paramilitaries.
 
Some of those children were labeled as incidental "collateral damage", killed "accidentally “ or "unintentionally" by Ukrainian armed forces and paramilitaries near legitimate military targets.
 
But many were killed as a result of war crimes and crimes against humanity, often in civilian areas without any legitimate military targets nearby.

Sadly, their deaths barely received any news coverage by Western mass media.

And those responsible for their deaths were never investigated or brought to justice (arrested, prosecuted, incarcerated or executed).

Why? Because they died at the hands of Ukrainian armed forces and paramilitaries during Ukraine's "anti-terrorist operation" against local insurgents, pro-Russian separatists who refused to accept in the Spring of 2014 the new Ukrainian government which was dominated by Ukrainian Nationalists -- a government which was installed, supported and controlled by the United States of America and its NATO allies from 2014 to the present.
 
That's the double standard -- when U.S. allies, proxies and controlled governments commit war crimes and crimes against humanity, these crimes are generally overlooked by Western Mass Media that are owned and controlled by the same transnational financial-industrial groups that control political parties, politicians, governments, militaries and intelligence agencies.

I believe that ALL deaths of children (regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, citizenship or their parents’ political affiliation),
 
- In Donbass,
- in the rest of Ukraine,
- in Russia,
- and anywhere else in the world,
 
if there is reason to believe that they were caused by war crimes, crimes against humanity and/or human rights violations,
 
1. must receive fair and objective news media coverage;

2. must be thoroughly investigated by competent, experienced, independent and impartial investigators;

3. their perpetrators brought to justice with full cooperation of ALL countries where (a) their crimes took place, (b) they hold citizenship and/or (c) where they reside or hide; and

4. once convicted, the perpetrators must be punished to the fullest extent permitted by law.

More important than seeking justice is our moral obligation and civic duty to ensure take that all sides take proactive measures to protect the lives of children and other adult civilians and to prevent their deaths during law enforcement, counter-terrorism, military operations and war.

a. Organizing and not hindering the evacuation of children from areas of current or potential use of force,

b. Refusing to locate or hide military forces, equipment and munitions near residential buildings, schools, hospitals and other areas where children are present.

c. Refusing to allow civilians and children to be present (often unaware), even temporarily, near actual or potential military targets, especially when these targets are located in residential neighborhoods, transportation or shopping centers.
 
d. Refusing to use children and civilians as de facto human shields by (i) locating or hiding military forces & equipment in populated areas, buildings and structures or (ii) relocating children to areas where military personnel are located under the guise of evacuating them to a safe location.
 
e. Refusing to (i) use medical transportation to transport soldiers & military equipment and (ii) shoot, bomb or target such medical transportation.
 
f. Refusing to shoot, bomb or target structures and areas where children and civilians are known to be present either voluntarily or de facto hostages & human shields.
    
Why? Because all human lives have equal value and because children's lives are the most precious of all.

Do you agree?
 
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The life of a Soviet person
Yandex Zen
July 18, 2022
 

July 18 - the day of memory of more than 2000 Leningrad children

On June 29, 1941, the first wave of evacuation of residents from Leningrad began.

In the railway train moving towards Staraya Russa, by the time of arrival there were already 12 heating cars, in which more than 3 thousand children were traveling, accompanied by teachers and medical staff. workers.

On July 17, the train began on the first track of the Lychkovo station, waiting for replenishment with children from Demyansk.

Large red crosses were depicted on the roofs of the wagons. The next day the new children arrived and were placed in the wagons.

Planes suddenly flew in. None of the children could even think that they were German until the bombs flew.
Despite the fleeing women and many children, the German pilots continued their work.

When the nightmare ended, the locals began to rescue those who survived. All the rest, adults and children, were buried in the village cemetery in a mass grave.

According to rough estimates, in addition to adults, more than 2 thousand Leningrad children lost their lives here.

They tried to take them to a safe place...

Memorial at st. Lychkovo
 
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5cc362c4ad71e300b4a8e624/62d559c2996e500f07e59aae

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Siege of Leningrad
 
The siege of Leningrad (Russian: блокада Ленинграда; German: Leningrader Blockade) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II.

Germany's Army Group North advanced from the south, while the German-allied Finnish army invaded from the north and completed the ring around the city.

The siege began on 8 September 1941, when the Wehrmacht severed the last road to the city. Although Soviet forces managed to open a narrow land corridor to the city on 18 January 1943, the Red Army did not lift the siege until 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began.

The blockade became one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, and it was possibly the costliest siege in history due to the number of casualties which were suffered throughout its duration.

In the 21st century, some historians have classified it as a genocide due to the systematic starvation and intentional destruction of the city's civilian population.[10][11][12][13][14]

Casualties and losses

Soviet civilians: 642,000 during the siege, 400,000 at evacuations[8]
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad

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 Alley of angels
 
Alley of Angels is a memorial complex in Donetsk in memory of the children who died during the war in Donbass.

Located in the city of Donetsk in the park of culture and recreation named after Lenin Komsomol.

It was opened on May 5, 2015 after the installation of a memorial sign, and on June 2, 2017, a monument to the children of Donbass was added to the composition of the alley.

Moved to the Victory Park, the "Palace of Pioneers" of the Kalininsky district, along Shevchenko Boulevard.

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%8F_%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2
 
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36 angels: how the Armed Forces of Ukraine killed and maimed Lugansk children.
Nationalists do not spare even the smallest residents of the LNR.

Ekaterina Tyunina
May 8, 2022, 00:02

The LPR is almost completely liberated from the nationalists. Soon the long-awaited peace will reign throughout the republic, the destroyed houses will be restored. But the people of Luhansk will never forget about the thousands of fellow countrymen who died at the hands of the soldiers of the Ukrainian army. Among the victims are many children killed and maimed by the nationalists. Izvestia tells the stories of some of them.
 
Shooting at children

During the eight years of the war of Ukraine against the inhabitants of Donbass in the Luhansk People's Republic, 99 minors were injured of varying severity, Yulia Nazarenko, the Commissioner for Children's Rights of the LPR, told Izvestia.

Eight schoolchildren were affected this year alone.

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://iz.ru/1326039/ekaterina-tiunina/36-angelov-kak-vsu-ubivali-i-kalechili-luganskikh-detei
 
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The cry of the soul: the stories of the dead children of Donbass
February 25, 2022

Each of us knows what the loss of a loved one is. But God only knows what a mother feels when she loses her own child. Military operations in the Donbass have been going on for eight years. Eight years of bloody slaughter, in which not only soldiers, but also civilians, including small children, died every week. They have been deprived of a future.

But for some reason, they didn’t seem to notice this before, or they tried to close their eyes to the atrocities of the Ukrainian authorities. FAN decided to remind why Russia decided to end the war in Donbass.

    “If the Western media had at least partially shown what has been happening all these eight years - about the alley of angels in the Donbass, about the torn and murdered women and children, all the daily bombings, then the Western community would not have questions “What is happening?” There would be a question: “Why hasn’t Russia done this (we are talking about a special operation. - Note FAN) yet?” It is simply unprofitable for them to show and highlight that their satellites, their sixes in the person of Ukraine and [its president Vladimir] Zelensky are doing such horrors, ”political analyst Ivan Arkatov is convinced.
 
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://zen.yandex.ru/media/riafan.ru/krik-dushi-istorii-pogibshih-detei-donbassa-6218d26df8e9ed2952f0fb03
 
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Children of Donbass killed by Ukraine (the most complete list)

yadocent
February 4, 2022, 05:29
 
According to the UN human rights monitoring mission, in Ukraine during the entire period of the conflict from April 14, 2014 to April 30, 2021, 152 children were killed (including 102 boys and 50 girls), another 146 children were injured (of which 120 boys and 26 girls).

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://yadocent.livejournal.com/1416159.html

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Angels. Ten horror stories about the dead children of Donbass
 
matveychev_oleg
June 1, 2017, 20:04
 
Today, June 1, on Children's Day, Donetsk residents will take to the memorial rally "Angels" at 21:00. Not to remember. They are never forgotten. We just need to honor their memory. On this day, sky lanterns will be launched for every child who has died. Let him have a new toy there in heaven. Come out and you.

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://matveychev-oleg.livejournal.com/5531284.html

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Dead children of Donbass

ronin_077
Jun 1 2016, 15:39
 
In November 2014, I found myself at one not very pleasant event. In the Donetsk Church of the Three Hierarchs, which is on Azotny, Nikita Russov, a boy who died the day before during shelling, was buried in a closed coffin. Since then, I have been collecting information about the dead children of Donbass.

Eternal memory to them!

Information on children who died as a result of hostilities on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic for the period from April 2014 to the present

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://ronin-077.livejournal.com/37466.html

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How the children of Donbass were actually killed: Forbidden evidence

Natalya Zalevskaya
04 February 2022 19:00
 
Ukrainian propagandists swung at the sacred: they declared fake photos on the Alley of Angels - a memorial to the dead children of Donbass. It is unbearably scary for the perpetrators of these crimes to wake up from the mythology with which they surrounded themselves with their own hands, talking about Russian aggression. It's scary to open your eyes and see how monstrous the real truth is and who the real culprit is.

A memorial stone in memory of children killed by Ukraine in a Donetsk park is covered with snow. White ice crystals slowly descend on the cold black marble, like heavenly stars sending news from the wonderful land of human souls. Orthodox elders say that there, in this country unknown to most, all those innocently killed in the vile war that brought so much suffering and blood to the Donbass are at peace. Children's blood.
Terrible truth

According to Andrey Pinchuk, one of the leaders of the Union of Donbass Volunteers, the first head of the Ministry of State Security of the DPR, the Ukrainian military shelled the educational institutions of the People's Republics quite deliberately.

    In October 2014, the children went to school later because of the economic blockade... Then the Ukrainian military purposefully fired at the schools. There is a famous monument in Donetsk, when a brother shielded his sister, whom he brought to school, and other children in the doorway. He was hit with shrapnel because he covered them with himself. Such little heroes are direct confirmation that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are murderers and scoundrels,

Pinchuk told Tsargrad.

Many violent deaths of children through the fault of Kyiv occurred in the subsequent years of the Donbass war - 2015 and 2016.

In Donetsk, on the fact of the death of young Donbass residents, a special international commission was created, whose representatives clarified in detail the facts of the death of children, clarified the testimony of witnesses, including the parents of the victims.

According to a representative of the commission from the Ministry of Information of the DPR, the parents of children killed by Ukraine could not always talk about their tragedies on camera. Grief crippled them and robbed them of their strength.

Here are just a few testimonies about the death of the young inhabitants of the region, now forever young and immortal.

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https://tsargrad.tv/articles/kak-na-samom-dele-ubivali-detej-donbassa-zapreshhjonnye-svidetelstva_489404
 
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War in Donbas (2014–2022)

The war in Donbas[note 1] was an armed conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine, part of the broader Russo-Ukrainian War. In March 2014, immediately following the Euromaidan protest movement and subsequent Revolution of Dignity, protests by pro-Russian, anti-government separatist groups arose in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, collectively called the Donbas.

These demonstrations began around the same time as Russia's annexation of Crimea, and were part of wider pro-Russian protests across southern and eastern Ukraine.

Declaring the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR, respectively), armed Russian-backed separatist groups seized government buildings throughout the Donbas, leading to armed conflict with Ukrainian government forces.[32]

Casualties
Main article: Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War

The number of confirmed fatalities caused by the war was 14,200–14,400 as of the end of December 2021, including non-combat military deaths.

By this point, the UN confirmed 3,404 civilians had been killed in the conflict. Of the civilian deaths, 312 were foreigners: 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17,[27] 11 Russian journalists,[590] an Italian journalist,[591] one Russian civilian killed in cross-border shelling[592] and a Lithuanian diplomat.[593]

Humanitarian concerns

A report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released on 28 July 2014 said that based on "conservative estimates", at least 1,129 civilians had been killed since mid-April during the fighting, and at least 3,442 had been wounded.[616][617] The report found that at least 750 million US dollars worth of damage has been done to property and infrastructure in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.[617] Human Rights Watch said that Ukrainian government forces, pro-government paramilitaries, and the insurgents had used unguided Grad rockets in attacks on civilian areas, stating that "The use of indiscriminate rockets in populated areas violates international humanitarian law, or the laws of war, and may amount to war crimes".[618][619] The New York Times reported that the high rate of civilian deaths had "left the population in eastern Ukraine embittered toward Ukraine's pro-Western government", and that this sentiment helped to "spur recruitment" for the insurgents.[620] By early January 2015, the number of deaths caused by the war had risen to 4,707, despite the signing of the Minsk Protocol in early September 2014.[621]

As consequence of the conflict, large swathes of the Donbas region, on both sides of the "contact line", have become contaminated with landmines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW).[622] According to the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, in 2020 Ukraine was one of the most mine-affected countries in the world, with nearly 1,200 mine/ERW casualties since the beginning of the conflict in 2014.[623] A report by UNICEF released in December 2019 said that 172 children had been injured or killed due to landmines and other explosives, over 750 educational facilities had been damaged or destroyed, and 430,000 children lived with psychological traumas associated with war.[624][625]

Displaced population

By early August 2014, at least 730,000 had fled fighting in the Donbas and left for Russia.[626] This number, much larger than earlier estimates, was given by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The number of internal refugees rose to 117,000.[626] By the start of September, after a sharp escalation over the course of August, the number of people displaced from Donbas within Ukraine more than doubled to 260,000.[627] The number of temporary asylum seekers and refugee applicants from Ukraine in Russia rose to 121,000.[628] Despite two months of a shaky ceasefire established by the Minsk Protocol, the number of refugees displaced from Donbas in Ukraine escalated sharply to 466,829 in mid November.[629]

By April 2015, the war had caused at least 1.3 million people to become internally displaced within Ukraine.[630] In addition, more than 800,000 Ukrainians had sought asylum, residence permits, or other forms of legal stay in neighbouring countries, with over 659,143 in Russia, 81,100 in Belarus, and thousands more elsewhere.[631][632]

According to another report by the UN OHCHR, over three million people continued to live in the Donbas conflict zone as of March 2016.[30] This was said to include 2.7 million who lived in DPR and LPR-controlled areas, and 200,000 in Ukrainian-controlled areas adjacent to the line of contact. In addition, the Ukrainian government was said to have registered a total of 1.6 million internally displaced people within Ukraine who had fled the conflict. Over one million were reported to have sought asylum elsewhere, with most having gone to Russia.[30] The report also said that people that lived in separatist-controlled areas were experiencing "complete absence of rule of law, reports of arbitrary detention, torture and incommunicado detention, and no access to real redress mechanisms".[30][633]

By November 2017, the UN had identified 1.8 million internally displaced and conflict-affected persons in Ukraine, while another 427,240 who had sought asylum or refugee status in the Russian Federation, plus 11,230 in Italy, 10,495 in Germany, 8,380 in Spain, and 4,595 in Poland.[634]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)

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