{"id":35657,"date":"2025-07-28T09:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=35657"},"modified":"2025-07-28T11:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:43:23","slug":"propaganda-speculates-on-topic-of-dead-children-of-donbas-to-justify-russias-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/propaganda-speculates-on-topic-of-dead-children-of-donbas-to-justify-russias-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda speculates on topic of \u201cdead children of Donbas\u201d to justify Russia&#8217;s crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 27, russia and the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine marked the so-called \u201cday of remembrance for children victims of the war in Donbas.\u201d A series of propaganda events were held, widely covered by media controlled by the occupying forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f In these reports, propagandists promote a false narrative of \u201cUkrainian aggression,\u201d cynically distorting the causes and consequences of the war. They publicly mourn \u201cthe children of Donbas\u201d while deliberately ignoring the fact that since the start of russia\u2019s full-scale invasion, at least 640 Ukrainian children have been killed and over 2,000 injured in russian terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p>By exploiting the narrative of \u201cinnocent children of Donbas,\u201d russia attempts to deflect attention from its own crimes and shift responsibility for a war it started back in 2014. It was russia that brought war to Ukrainian soil \u2014 and it is russia that bears full responsibility for the deaths of civilians, including children, in Donbas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 27, russia and the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine marked the so-called \u201cday of remembrance for children victims of the war in Donbas.\u201d A series of propaganda events were held, widely covered by media controlled by the occupying forces. \u25ab\ufe0f In these reports, propagandists promote a false narrative of \u201cUkrainian aggression,\u201d cynically distorting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":934,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}