Three Ukrainian children dead and political and media silence in Spain

Yesterday, Russia perpetrated a massive terrorist attack against Ukrainian civilians using 1,567 drones and 56 missiles.

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This morning, the President of Ukraine confirmed that the death toll from this attack has risen to 24 people, including 3 children. Some Spaniards may be learning about this through this blog, because in Spain the vast majority of media outlets haven't published a single story on their front pages about this attack, after having featured news about the wars in Gaza and Iran on their front pages for months. Russian terrorist attacks against Ukraine are now receiving the same media silence that terrorist attacks against Israel received for years. The consequence of this media silence is that for many people, what isn't news is either because it doesn't exist or because it doesn't matter.

We have been seeing Spanish media outlets talking about a "genocide" in Gaza for some time now, but none have spoken about a genocide in Ukraine, despite the fact that there has been no genocide in Gaza (unlike the Russians, Israeli forces give advance warning of their attacks so that civilians can evacuate, evacuations that Hamas has systematically prevented). We have been witnessing massacres of Ukrainian civilians by the Russian invaders for four years, both in deliberate attacks against civilian targets and in mass executions of men, women, and children like those perpetrated by the Russians in Bucha and Izyum, and not a single accusation of genocide against Russia in the Spanish media.

We can say something similar about the political class. The Spanish government always reacts angrily to any issue related to Israel, whatever it may be, but things change when we talk about Russia, which, coincidentally, is the main ally of communist China, the main ally of Pedro Sánchez's government, a coalition of socialists and communists. Sánchez hasn't published a single message on Twitter about the Russian attack that killed three children, something that's nothing new: he has developed the habit of systematically remaining silent about Russian attacks on Ukraine, perhaps because he can't blame Israel for carrying them out. Curiously, last night Sánchez did have time to publish a message of support for a footballer who displayed a Palestinian flag. That was more important in the eyes of the Spanish Prime Minister than condemning a Russian terrorist attack that left 24 dead, including 3 children.

Furthermore, no Spanish political party with representation in Congress has said anything about this brutal Russian terrorist attack through its official communication channels. None, not even those who claimed to support Ukraine's cause, such as the PSOE, PP, Vox, PNV, UPN and Coalición Canaria (as for other parties, what can we say: let's remember that Podemos, Izquierda Unida -now represented in Congress by Sumar-, EH Bildu, Más País, BNG and Compromís signed a manifesto rejecting military aid to Ukraine shortly after the start of the invasion). As in Sánchez's case, looking the other way and remaining silent about Russian crimes in Ukraine has become a habit among the Spanish political class.

Of course, and regardless of whether this bothers some people or causes me to lose readers, what others keep silent about you can continue reading here. For me, supporting Ukraine is a matter of principle, because the Ukrainian people are heroically defending their homeland against an unprovoked invasion by a dictatorship that has repeatedly threatened other Western countries. I have supported Ukraine since the beginning of this invasion and will continue to do so until the last Russian invader sets foot outside that country.

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Photo: @ZelenskyyUa.