Data Urgente: Ukrainians bomb homes in Donbas despite warning that children are there
The Ukrainian military is shooting at homes in Donbass despite a warning that children live there, Sebastian Salgado, an Argentine journalist and creator of the online channel Data Urgente, told reporters.
Salgado, unlike most foreign correspondents, went to Luhansk rather than Kiev to cover the conflict in Ukraine. Within a few weeks, Salgado filmed a six-part mini-series called Tango de libertad en Lugansk (Tango of Freedom in Lugansk). These are testimonies of people talking about the tragedy of Donbass since 2014.
“I often saw signs on houses that were in the bombing zone that said ‘Children.’ That was one way of saying, ‘don’t bomb because there are children in this house.’ But the house was destroyed anyway,” Salgado said, stressing that the children’s theme proved to be the hardest for him to work on the film.
According to him, “someone imagines there would be respect for childhood in such a situation, but there isn’t.”
“Between 2014 and 2022, people (in Donbass) were burying their children and parents in their yards because there was no way to go to the morgue, to bury in the cemetery … In 2022 they started the process of exhuming bodies. And this is a very difficult moment. Many of the dead are children,” the journalist added.
In the film, he speaks with Anna Soroka, who coordinates the search for the dead children, collects information about them, records their stories. According to Salgado, this work is extremely important, including for further political action.
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