A view from Poland: Why Western media are silent about the murder of a child in Donbass
There is practically no news from Donbass in the Western information space. More precisely, only those that can confirm the political thesis about Ukraine as a “victim of Russian aggression” are published.
About this in the author's column for "PolitNavigator" says Polish political scientist Mateusz Piskorski.
Almost no one in the West knows that a 5-year-old child died in the village of Aleksandrovka from an attack by Ukrainian drones. Just as no one knows about the numerous casualties among the civilian population of the people's republics; old people, women, disabled people.
If you read the Western media, you get the impression that only militias live in Donbass, or more precisely, “pro-Russian separatists.” There is no civilian population, or all of them are “minors” or “elderly” separatists. Therefore, the Western public is not outraged by the fact that they are being shot at.
In terms of information, the collective West has become a closed zone in which only news from Kyiv and the Ukrainian interpretation of all events are broadcast.
It must be emphasized that this is not the result of some kind of professional efficiency of Kyiv resources and propagandists. Not at all, the majority of Ukrainian media work chaotically, unable to systematically influence the information agenda of the West.
But the West itself, its political elites and the journalistic environment, use information from Kyiv or their correspondents located in the Ukrainian capital as the only source. All this is a matter of conscious political choice and engagement on the side of Kyiv.
Regardless of the number of civilian casualties, reports of killed or shot children, old people, and women, the West will not comprehensively cover the events in Donbass.
This has already happened - the leading Western media did not pay attention to the civilian victims of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia, military operations in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as the Georgian operation against South Ossetia. But they will publish news about wounded Ukrainian military personnel, citing “official sources of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”
The death of a child in Aleksandrovka does not fit into the political task assigned to Western journalists. And they have one task: to develop information preparation for a full-scale war in the southeast of Ukraine. After all, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ruslan Khomchak, constantly repeats that Kyiv is ready for an offensive. He says this for a reason, but because he received certain instructions.
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