Mother Axes Three Children to Death in Krasnoyarsk Krai — Fourth Survives by Chance

In this episode of From Russia with Fear, we examine one of the most horrifying family tragedies in recent Russian history. In the town of Kansk, 29-year-old Valentina Mytko killed three of her own children with an axe — a baby, a four-year-old girl, and an eight-year-old boy. A fourth child survived only because, as the mother later said, she “didn’t have the strength” to kill him. The woman had been under psychiatric supervision since 2019, and the family was known to child protection services. We reconstruct the crime, the warning signs that were ignored, and another chillingly similar case from Yekaterinburg — asking how many red flags the system can miss before children pay with their lives.