{"id":66852,"date":"2026-08-23T06:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=66852"},"modified":"2026-08-23T06:53:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:53:54","slug":"russian-invaders-murdered-three-ukrainian-children-aged-11-and-12-in-tokarivka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/08\/23\/russian-invaders-murdered-three-ukrainian-children-aged-11-and-12-in-tokarivka\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian invaders murdered three Ukrainian children, aged 11 and 12, in Tokarivka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia continues its strategy of committing war crimes against the Ukrainian civilian population, including children and babies.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/06\/04\/the-deafening-silence-surrounding-the-more-than-700-children-killed-by-russia-in-ukraine\/\">The deafening silence surrounding the more than 700 children killed by Russia in Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/08\/20\/russian-terrorist-attack-on-kyiv-damaging-a-childrens-hospital-homes-and-a-school\/\">Russian terrorist attack on Kyiv, damaging a children's hospital, homes and a school<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, August 21, at 7:32 p.m. CET, the State Emergency Service (DSNS) of Ukraine reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/dsns_telegram\/72305\" target=\"_blank\">four people, including three children, were murdered in a Russian drone strike<\/a>, and one person was injured. <strong>The attack took place in the village of Tokarivka, in the community of Veselinivska, region of Mykolaiv<\/strong>, and caused a fire in a building housing a shop and post office with a total area of \u200b\u200b300 square meters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/dsns_telegram\/72305\" target=\"_blank\">The DSNS released this photo of the three children murdered<\/a>, covered with a blanket:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55481908824_f2376a7370_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55481908824_92b4fd8fed_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ivan Vyhivskyi, Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/I_Vyhivskyi\/141\" target=\"_blank\">has stated<\/a> that <strong>two of the children murdered were 11 years old and the third was 12<\/strong>. According to the website <a href=\"https:\/\/childrenofwar.gov.ua\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Children of War<\/a>, which compiles data from the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, between February 24, 2022, the day the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began, and August 23, 2026, <strong>Russian invaders have already killed 734 Ukrainian children and injured 2,795<\/strong>. Among the war crimes committed by the invaders against Ukrainian children are <strong>20,610 deported children and 23 children who have suffered sexual assault by the invaders<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55481731126_459ebc7e01_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55481731126_fbf4d37698_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is most astonishing is that these murders barely warrant the attention of many media outlets.<\/strong> Nor are there any protests about them. Some governments don't even mention these crimes. I am writing this from Spain, and <strong>Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government has not issued any statement condemning this crime against three Ukrainian children.<\/strong> In fact, the Spanish government rarely publishes statements condemning the frequent Russian attacks against Ukrainian civilians, perhaps so as not to upset its pro-Russian far-left partners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55480740257_57112d9a05_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55480740257_f68e8dabd9_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jmalbares\/status\/2090750151811834059\" target=\"_blank\">on Friday, the S\u00e1nchez government did \"strongly\" condemn the Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria<\/a>, a stunning double standard between the criminal actions of a dictatorship like Russia against another country and the actions of a democratic country like Israel. <strong>Would we see this outrageous silence if those Russian crimes against children were committed by Israel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photos: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mykolaiv_ova\/2672\" target=\"_blank\">\u0413\u0435\u043e\u0440\u0433\u0456\u0439 \u0420\u0435\u0448\u0435\u0442\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0432 | \u041c\u0438\u043a\u043e\u043b\u0430\u0457\u0432\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0430 \u041e\u0412\u0410<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/dsns_telegram\/72305\" target=\"_blank\">\u0414\u0421\u041d\u0421 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0438<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia continues its strategy of committing war crimes against the Ukrainian civilian population, including children and babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11415,10373],"tags":[27725,27723,2721,10731,16153,27722,15307,27724,7887],"class_list":["post-66852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-plana-english","category-world","tag-ivan-vyhivskyi","tag-mykolaiv","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-tokarivka","tag-ukraine","tag-veselinivska","tag-vladimir-putin"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-30 09:13:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}