LefteridiosOMegas

18 yr old Grecoid with Somali vantablack characteristics

[ibnlefter]

besides the schizophrenia of the possibility of an AFU counterattack up to that point, this is the IQ level of ukrainians; everyone there is a russian agent!

[oedipused]

If you're a leftist and don't support North Korea or Russia, then there is likely still lots of Western propaganda instilled within you that you need to deconstruct.

[natoapologistblocker]

I've read enough of this post's replies to say one thing: death to anarchists, unlimited re-education on anarchists. Do not rest until every anarchist is a communist or catatonic or dead

[ibnlefter]

its not as if "communists" necessarily support North Korea, at most you'd get soy normie leftists who think its le heckin evil revisionist dystopia or wtv

[ineed2forgetsotakeme2floridaaa]

I guess I’m doing this. I do not expect anything good to come of this I don’t expect this person to listen or learn, they are using denial of the genocide of the Donchane people solely to rage bait Russians online who they’ve gotten into discourse with. I fully expect them to respond to this with accusations that it’s just like Uyghurs, Holodomor, anti-Iranian propaganda etc. but it feels like it would be wrong to ignore nonetheless.

Vladimir Vasilyevich Romanenko // (68 years old), city of Selidovo // (Donetsk People’s Republic) // Comment by a medical worker during the inspection of the site of his family’s killing: //“In my left hand are clearly human remains. These are ribs, fragments of bones. This is a woman’s hair clip, found among a pile of burned body fragments. In my right hand I have remains of a human spinal column.” // “Right here, on this very spot, my family was shot, and when their bodies were burned, I did not see it. They were completely burned, most likely because the Ukrainian soldier saw me run away. In my hands I have the hair clip of my daughter-in-law — little Olechka, my daughter-in-law’s clip. She was standing right here. // At seven in the morning, I went outside to the toilet in the yard, in the garden. I went out there and heard shouting: ‘Everyone come out of the house.’ It was a man shouting, a Ukrainian soldier, in Ukrainian camouflage with a green stripe. He looked about 50 years old, short in height. // When they brought my family out of the house and made them stand facing the wall, he was shouting across the whole street. There were two of them. One stood a bit further away, and the other stood in such a way that I could see him very clearly. // From the side of the garage they placed my wife, then my grandson, my son — I don’t remember exactly. Then my daughter-in-law and the matchmaker — the daughter-in-law’s mother. My daughter-in-law started crying, saying: ‘What are you doing?’ And he just started shooting. He shot my wife first. Then he went on shooting the others. I ran away through the garden. // Later, when I came back on the 28th, I saw the bodies lying by the wall where they had been shot. But they had been burned. The next day I went, found some bags, and gathered the remains. Where it had burned, I covered the remains. Everything that was there, I collected into five bags and buried them here under the entrance to my building. We buried five people — five bags that remained — my family. Years of birth: 1951, 1955, 1978, 1974, and 1991.”

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Vladimir Nikolaevich Pogorelov // city of Selidovo // (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “I was buying milk in Voroshilovka. An old man asked Ukrainian soldiers: ‘Boys, when the Russians come, how will we live with them?’ One of them, the biggest one, turned and said: ‘Grandpa, don’t be afraid of the Russians — be afraid of us.’ He said: ‘We have 600 guns; when we leave, we’ll wipe Selidovo out.’ Since 2015 they’ve been promising to wipe us out. Ukrainian soldiers personally told my mother twice, and almost all women: ‘When we leave, we’ll wipe Selidovo off the face of the earth.’ But I stayed so it wouldn’t be wiped out. // Near shop No. 56, people used to gather to buy things. A mortar shell hit there once — no one was killed. A week later, people gathered again. I was thinking of going in the morning to buy mineral water but decided to go after noon. My godfather Alexei and my friend Gena went there to buy meat. Around ten o’clock a shell hit — four people were wounded. A woman had her kidney torn out, Gena had his leg pierced and an artery severed. A fragment got stuck and wasn’t removed. My godfather Alexei Vanin also had his leg pierced through and a graze to the head. Ukraine was firing. September–October. // In September, near the Revino bridge, I went to feed dogs. Ukrainian soldiers lived three houses down. When they left, they simply threw a grenade into the house. It caught fire and burned for two days because people were afraid it might be mined. // Or on Ostrovsky Street — a soldier came out from two houses down. Three minutes later, the house exploded. // Refugees from Peski and Pervomaisk were living in the children’s hospital. Ukrainian soldiers came, inspected the building, saw where people were living, collected all the fire extinguishers, and left. About six hours later, a strike hit — from Ostrovsky Street. It hit exactly where the refugees were living. There were no fire extinguishers, nothing to put out the fire. Those who survived gathered and fled further into Ukraine. // Russian troops were not there yet. They entered on Thursday around 2 p.m. On Tuesday, Ukrainian soldiers entered house No. 19, in front of mine. They went around breaking doors and shooting everyone they found. Anyone who opened the door was shot in the head. An 80-year-old grandmother, a lifelong teacher, was shot in the head. Everyone there was shot in the head. Three people survived — one didn’t manage to open the door, another barricaded himself and heard French and Ukrainian speech. A Frenchman said something, and a Ukrainian replied: ‘We don’t have time to break doors anymore. We’ve already cleared it.’ They left him alive because they had no time. // On Wednesday, someone with a Georgian accent walked through our yard shouting: ‘Is anyone alive?’ He reached my building. I was about to answer when he started swearing. I gathered the residents — six of us — to decide whether to open. We decided not to, since he was swearing. We waited for someone more polite. That was Wednesday — he was deliberately looking for civilians to kill. // In our building, they took a family of five, including a child, out into the yard and shot them. Ukrainian soldiers. // Snipers were placed here, and starting Tuesday they shot all the men. One ran into a shop — the sniper shot him there. His body is still lying there. // At the intersection, bodies lie in a row. All were shot in the head. Around this house, all the men were shot by Ukrainian snipers, maybe mercenaries. // A son came from a nearby street, saw his father lying dead, and ran home for shovels. While running, a sniper shot him in the head. He didn’t manage to bury his father.”

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Valentina Yevgenyevna Vasilkonova, city of Selidovo (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “On October 21, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were retreating. We were standing by the entrance, and they started shooting. We heard Ukrainian speech: ‘Come here, come here.’ We ran and scattered into the entrances. My front door was shot through. I ran inside quickly, and a Ukrainian soldier shouted: ‘She ran over there.’ And they shot through my door — there’s still a hole in it to this day. // They also fired at the building across from us, number 12. We ran inside, but people were standing in entrance number 12 across the way. They locked the entrance. The Ukrainian soldiers said: ‘Open up, open up, nothing will happen to you.’ Aunt Valya opened it, and they shot the four of them. They hadn’t done anything. Lena was just sitting on the couch. They shot her. They shot her son, asking why he wasn’t fighting. They shot Sasha. Aunt Valya started screaming, and they shot her too. Lena said: ‘What are you doing?’ One of the soldiers said: ‘What should we do with her?’ Another said: ‘Just finish her.’ And they did.

A boy, Kolya, ran in. He lived nearby and had heard the shooting. He ran over, and they shot him too. Four people at once. Then they stayed in that apartment — about twelve of them. A young man living across saw everything through the window. They shot up his windows. // One man came out to surrender, and they shot him. He was lying near the entrance. In our Solnechny district, six people are lying dead. A woman was walking with a bag — a Ukrainian soldier shot her. Once, twice, three times. My neighbor Sasha told me: the soldier shot her three times. At first she started moving, and the soldier said: ‘Oh, you’re still moving?’ and shot again. ‘Waiters, waiters, waiters’ — that’s all we heard from them. // Sasha’s kitchen windows were shot up because they were firing. His door was shot too. My door was shot in the first entrance, his in the second. // When they were retreating, they shot at us. It’s good I hid… They opened the entrance and shot at the doors because they saw me running. Thank God they didn’t come into the apartment. If they had come in // In the neighboring house, a woman was feeding cats. Aunt Lena was 75 — they shot her. And Kirillovna, a Ukrainian language teacher, was running, made it into the entrance, but a soldier caught up with her and shot her. A 75-year-old woman feeding cats — why shoot her? // Those who write comments to me, those who left, say: ‘It can’t be Ukraine, Ukraine didn’t touch us when we lived there.’ But I stayed — I know it was Ukraine. // How do you prove that it was Ukraine who killed, and not Russia? Russia came — did they shoot us? No, on the contrary, they help us. They ask if we have food. We say we have everything, thank you. They help — they even brought me firewood. // My son also died on the 21st. He and Ruslan, a friend, and Seryozha went to a house on Ostrovskaya Street, 18, to drop off a friend. They arrived, got out — and Ukrainian soldiers were still sitting across from them. On the 22nd they had already reached our Solnechny district. It was around 10:30 at night. The soldiers said to them: ‘Why are you driving around?’ — ‘We brought a friend,’ Aunt Valya told me, Seryozha Sklyar’s mother. They kept asking: ‘Why are you driving around?’ // When I was burying my son, neighbors told me the soldiers had been drunk, they started picking on the boys, asking: ‘Why aren’t you fighting?’ I don’t know how it happened. They shot up the car — it’s still there by the house, riddled with bullets. Then they killed Seryozha. They carried him and laid him down. While they were carrying him, the soldiers were shooting at my son, Yevgeny Kirilenko. Aunt Valya said: ‘I started treating my son — his leg and arm were shot.’ // Then Zhenya went outside — a dog started whining. The soldiers had already shot the dog. He went out to it, and at around 10:30 at night they shot him near the dog. Then a soldier told Aunt Valya: ‘Look what they’re doing in that house.’ She said: ‘There’s no one left — you’ve already killed them all.’ And my son was lying there, dead. He hadn’t done anything. They weren’t rude, they didn’t argue, they didn’t say anything. They killed him simply for ‘why aren’t you fighting,’ for supposedly waiting for Russia. // Aunt Valya didn’t even hear our boys respond — they stayed silent. Then the soldiers came back and finished him off, in case he was still alive. Aunt Valya started screaming: ‘What are you doing, you butchers? You’ve already killed my son and now you’re killing him too.’ They didn’t touch Ruslan at first — he was the one bandaging him. // In the morning, when Ruslan tried to go out, the soldiers, while retreating, shot him too. So three people died at once. // Then the soldiers came here to our Solnechny district. So many people were killed here — bodies were lying around.

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Sergey Gennadievich Boenko, city of Selidovo (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “During their retreat, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were simply shooting everyone they came across. They went into apartment entrances, knocked on doors, broke down wooden doors, and shot those who opened them. On October 22, during the retreat, sometime after one o’clock, we heard intense automatic gunfire. // On the morning of the 23rd, I looked out the window and saw a dead man near entrance No. 6 of building 77 on Mikhaylovskaya Street. I went to the former ‘Solnechny’ shop and also saw a dead person on the corner. As it turned out, it was the neighbor of Sergey from the nearby building. He was killed on the corner of the building. // Neighbors saw that our neighbor had been killed. She was lying near the ‘Kolorit’ shop. Within a radius of one hundred meters from my brother’s apartment, I saw eight dead people. Valya — a neighbor from the first entrance — I buried her between the building and the shop. // Further on, near building 77, by the first entrance near the sidewalk, I saw two dead men of elderly age. Another dead person was near the sixth entrance. Near the ‘Solnechny’ shop, at the left corner of the store, lay Sergey Kasimov. At the right corner, behind the former ‘Soyuzpechat’ kiosk, there was another dead man. Behind the shops on the boulevard on the former Shchorsa Street (it was renamed under Ukrainian authorities), there was another man. And near building 12, by the first entrance, there was a dead man. // Another dead person lay near the turn by the house, near a concrete sewer cover. A second lay on the corner of that shop. A third man lay dead further down the sidewalk below the shop. One of them had been covered with something — he was about seventy years old. I had seen him alive several times before. // Varvara Sadchikova, a resident of the building’s first entrance, was killed about ten meters from here. I buried her on the 30th. She used to walk, loved dogs. She had dogs. She went out walking and was killed on the 22nd. // Near the second school there is a small-family dormitory building with a savings bank attached to it. Near the first entrance, right by a bench, there was a dead man lying there. Apparently, local residents had already covered him with something. That’s what I saw. // The Ukrainian Armed Forces also killed my former colleague from the mine, Volodya Borisov. At the intersection with Shevchenko Street. He was killed there in the same way as the others, during the retreat. You can’t call them soldiers… they’re monsters. They killed everyone indiscriminately. He was also killed. He had gone to fetch water, and they shot him there. // Why were they killed? I’ll tell you my view. Since 1991, there has been this rise of the Bandera narrative — that Bandera is a hero, that all those who were in the SS ‘Galicia’ division were actually fighting for Ukraine and did not kill civilians, and so on. But in reality, from the history we learned in Soviet school, we all know. // For ‘true’ Ukrainians now, the dream is to ‘rule’ — to dominate, to reign. Not through their own work, but by exploiting others — us, the eastern people.”

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‼️ I do not speak English. If you want to double check the translation I suggest running it through DeepL, Yandex or Google translate ‼️

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Nikolai Vasilievich Glukhanich, // city of Kurakhovo (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “On December 19, 2024, I went out to take out the trash and on the way wanted to pick up a few more pieces of firewood from some broken wood. And Ukrainians dropped a drone on me near the second entrance, where the trash is off to the side, behind our building.

I have five fragments in me. In my temple, here on my arm there’s still a strong mark, and in my thigh. Where the temple is, you can clearly see it. If you want, I can take it off and show you how my shoulder was torn apart. // I was wearing this padded jacket, this quilted coat. It tore through it. It went from bottom to top. And right into the temple—can you imagine, two centimeters from the eye or so. It tore the hood, tore everything, and it was all very painful. Also here in the shin, in the leg. In total, five fragments. They’re small. They fired once. I already jumped into the entrance, and then a second time—the second drop was stronger. That is, they were finishing me off. // Another time before that, I was fixing doors in this entrance where I live. I reacted to the sound. When it hit—well, I managed to sit down in the entrance. My arm was hit—very strong, like by some kind of pellet. Extremely strong, like after a blow. Very, very painful. // They knew civilians lived here, knew we were civilians, saw that we were trying to clean around the house—they were watching us very closely. And they struck deliberately. They knew we were civilians. // Before me, the Terekhov family was injured. They went for water or firewood, and the son went first, around nine in the morning. I think he went for water; there was frost then, this was December 15, and he couldn’t get any. We were collecting water from a drainage outlet—it was closer and safer. But he probably went to the base where there were supplies of bottled water. Then his mother goes—he’s still not back—and she went to look for him. // I live on the fourth floor, I hear her shouting: ‘People, help!’ And she’s crawling there, along that alley behind the bank, crawling and rolling over. My God! I went out, started looking for people; a man from that building helped, and another one here. We found a blanket, pulled her out, then we see Sergey—her son—crawling too. She had a wound in her lower back and, I think, in the right leg, above the knee. And the son had an open fracture in the right shin. A terrible open fracture—the bone was sticking out. // She went to look for him after two or three hours. And they themselves were crawling and rolling, covering about half a kilometer like that. We dragged them maybe 100–150 meters—not much. With the fracture we just put on splints. It was December. // The drone knew that only civilians lived here. It’s bad, very bad. Ukrainians were finishing off their own. Then they started firing at our building. The windows are broken; I had just patched them up. It was coming from the direction of Dachnoye, where Ukraine was positioned. // They fired to the point that some kind of projectile flew in—I don’t know what it’s called, I still have the casing from it. It flew into the room, smashed things—seven through-holes in the kitchen, then it went through the bathroom, the storage room, then into the living room. About 30 holes in total, some through, some not. // Near the church, a young guy was injured. He lay in the basement for a month. He was also hit by a Ukrainian drone—he had been going for water, or they were feeding people in the church basement. He lived in that basement for a month and died near the church, somewhere there he was buried. His name was Viktor. // Others lived on Engels Street, and they had some kind of conflict with Ukrainian soldiers: ‘Why aren’t you leaving the city?’ And they were simply shot. I think they were pensioners—a man and a woman, maybe just below retirement age. It was Ukrainian soldiers who shot them. // Another man lived—he also had some kind of conflict with Ukrainian soldiers—they threw a grenade under his feet. His surname was Osipovich, in Yuzhny, that’s what I was told. Around 45 years old. // I wanted to go to church for Christmas. Ukrainians were dropping charges from drones, like mines, watching us from drones and striking like with mines. I couldn’t even go to church for Christmas.”

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Vitaliy Viktorovich Kolesnik, city of Kurakhovo (Donetsk People’s Republic // “People tried at night to run to a safe place, to the village of Krasnoye. They said they were shot at, struck by drones—basically, people were being killed. They were heading toward Donetsk, that is, toward the Russian troops. They were looking for safety, running there, running toward the Russian forces. And these enemies—‘Nazi’ Ukrainian soldiers—were firing at them, not letting them get there. // At some point people were looking for water. There’s the Vorsovskaya base here; there used to be a warehouse with water there—packs, maybe 19-liter ones, around ten of them. Some water remained, and people went there looking for it. Ukrainian drones attacked them. Many civilian bodies were lying right on the road. I even know the surname of one young guy—Terekhov—who was injured. A drone attacked him and damaged his legs. He started crawling. There was no one around. Then he rolled along near the highway, along the roadside with his injured legs. Eventually he crawled somewhere to a house and shouted for help. Apparently people heard him and pulled him out. And his mother was waiting for him. Her name was Valentina, may she rest in peace. She went to look for him, and a drone attacked her too. Somehow people carried them into a basement. But the mother couldn’t be saved—she died. Valentina Terekhova.

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Aleksandr Dmitrievich Chotiy, city of Kurakhovo (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “On December 20, 2024, my neighbor and I were living in a basement. We needed to go down into the cellar for household needs—get some potatoes, maybe some preserved food. We went behind the house and heard a drone flying in from the west. It flew behind the house, seemed like it kept going. // The cellar is very close—about five meters from the house. My neighbor was going down into the cellar, and I was standing nearby. Literally a second later, the drone came back and dropped something. // I fell. I couldn’t move because I realized a nerve in my thigh had been severed—in my right leg, and also in my left, it hit my toe and foot. // There was a man, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Kutsuvalov, born in 1980. A Ukrainian drone was specifically hunting him and two other people, dropped something on them, and he was also wounded. He lived at 10 Komsomolsky Avenue, apartment 20. // Ukrainian forces want to inflict maximum damage on the local residents who stayed here. They believe that those who stayed are ‘waiters,’ meaning they are waiting for the ‘Russian world.’ Most likely, that is why—to cause as much harm as possible to the local population.”

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Igor Aleksandrovich Kamenetsky, city of Kurakhove (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “On October 30, 2024, it was my father’s birthday. I congratulated him, then went to pass on greetings to a neighbor. We were with him in the garage, at 85 Michurina Street. // Two Ukrainian soldiers came in; with them was Andrey Bitner, born in 1976. They made us lie on the floor. I was struck on the head from above with a foot. When they entered the garage, they said: ‘Why didn’t you evacuate, you waiters.’ Basically, it was all ‘waiters, waiters, waiters.’ // They told us to lie face down. I was face down, and they kicked me in the back of the head with boots. Vova was shot in the arm. One of them asked about the car—whether it worked or not, what condition it was in, whether there was gasoline or not. They got in and drove away. // A second one stayed with us. The Ukrainian servicemen put us in a pit, back to back, made us take off our outer clothing, and took off our shoes. // One soldier continued: what are you doing here, translate from Ukrainian to Russian, from Russian to Ukrainian, do you know Ukrainian? // They forced us to sing the anthem. One told me to move toward the gate, press my head down, hands up—and a shot rang out. I saw Andrey slump to the side. // Another Ukrainian soldier came in. He said: ‘I’m here for you.’ They made me lie face down on the ground again. Again, questions: what are you doing here, what are you waiting for? // There was also a question from the second soldier to the first one who came in. He said: ‘Why did you kill that one?’ And he replied: ‘I didn’t want to guard two.’ // Then another one told me: ‘Get up and run.’ I said: where? ‘To Dnipropetrovsk.’ I ran to the turn, went around the corner to a neighbor. I asked for shoes, clothes, something to throw on.”

[machine translated]

‼️ I do not speak English. If you want to double check the translation I suggest running it through DeepL, Yandex or Google translate ‼️

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Sergey Konstantinovich Andreev, city of Kurakhove (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “When the Ukrainian shelling began, we, of course, suffered greatly from it. Many were wounded, and there were deaths. // Acquaintances were returning home during curfew and saw that a Ukrainian unit was standing by a tank, and the commander was giving them orders: three shots at the city, two at the Kurakhove thermal power plant. // Our workers at the power plant tried in every possible way to provide heat and electricity to the city. But the Ukrainians hindered this. // Our mayor, whose surname is Padun, worked at the power plant and knew where to direct mortar fire, where it would hit most painfully so that it would take longer to repair. // And that’s why the Ukrainian military fired precisely at the transformer substation. As soon as smoke came out of the power plant’s chimney, shelling would begin. This was the first sign that people had restored the plant’s operation and started up the units to provide heat and electricity. // Mayor Padun knew exactly where to strike. According to rumors, he even gave instructions to the director—several directors changed at the plant during that period—to stop supplying heat, preserve the equipment, and evacuate all workers. // There were many collapses during the shelling, with people trapped under the rubble. There were many injuries, including shrapnel wounds. // The director of our lyceum was also affected in the same way. A strike hit while she was at home. In the kitchen, part of the window was blown out by the blast wave, and that fragment killed her. // Whenever shelling occurred, for some reason none of the Ukrainian soldiers suffered. They were warned in advance, and only civilians suffered. // There were many injuries. On my younger daughter’s birthday, a strike landed nearby. One woman was killed and another was seriously wounded. People were simply sitting on a bench when the Ukrainian shelling happened. // Later, drones appeared here—there were so many that it seemed like a swarm of bees. It was incredibly loud; they fell, exploded, and dropped payloads. Our apartment was damaged. It was a so-called ‘Baba Yaga’ drone. // We live on the fifth floor; in one room there is basically no ceiling anymore. The Ukrainian ‘Baba Yaga’ drone is one of the larger ones. We somehow learned to hide all the time. // Ukrainian troops did not reach our basement, but in the neighboring building they did and even took people hostage. People were sitting in the basement, and they drove them up to the first and second floors to use them as human shields. // I heard this from conversations with an acquaintance of mine who was in that basement.”

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Alexander Anatolyevich Machula and Elena Vladimirovna Machula, Kurakhove (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “On the first floor of our building lived a disabled man of the third category, Nikolai Ivanovich Samokhval, 57 years old. A support group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces came and killed him on December 23, sometime between 11 p.m. and midnight. Those who saw the body said there was a hematoma on the back of his skull. I understand it was a blow from a rifle butt. // One of four Ukrainian soldiers killed him. Four Ukrainian soldiers came to support those who were in the cooperative building and the House of Culture. The most brutal and stubborn among them had the callsign ‘Den,’ Dima. I didn’t let them into the entrance at first, but as soon as they got in, he pointed his rifle at me and said: ‘If you, old man, stop me from passing one more time, I’ll shoot you.’ //They threatened us, saying that when the Russians come, they’ll slaughter all of you. They said Russians eat dogs and cats, and that we are not people to them. // They stole property. Right in front of us, a Ukrainian soldier, about 20 years old, opened a wardrobe in the apartment opposite—a two-room flat. He told me he couldn’t wait to turn 18 to sign a contract with the Ukrainian army; he wanted to fight. He tore off a very strong lock, rummaged through drawers, and anything he found—he put in his pocket if it was valuable. // We all watched this in our entrance. We saw them breaking doors open without any hesitation, using crowbars. On the second floor, they fired several rounds from a 5.45 mm rifle while breaking down a door. // They arrived on December 19, 2024, around noon, and locked us in from the outside. They used us as a shield—I insist on that. I told them: ‘What are you doing, guys? You can’t do this.’ // Below us, they broke down the door of our neighbor Shanin. There was a sniper on the first floor beneath us, and a grenade launcher operator—the same ‘Den.’ They didn’t let us go anywhere. We couldn’t even go for water—we didn’t have water even to flush the toilet. // We used to go to a well under building 2V, but the Ukrainians locked us in. We cooked outside, and when I brought boiling water in, a Ukrainian soldier locked us inside with our own key. For three days, they didn’t let us out at all.

They left on December 23. I heard the key turn in the lock—that’s when we were finally able to go into the entrance. // The Ukrainians used drones a lot. They attacked us personally twice. We were walking from our damaged house, carrying some potatoes along Mechnikov Street, when a Ukrainian drone attacked us. Luckily, it got caught in the branches of a tree near the House of Culture. // The Ukrainian soldiers saw that civilians were walking. I was wearing a padded jacket, and my wife was wearing one too. We were carrying bags, and they still launched a drone at us. // They strike civilians so that we would talk less about what they were doing. Ukrainian soldiers believed that those who stayed here were already separatists, no longer Ukraine. They said to us: ‘What, are you waiting for the tricolors? Waiting for the Russian army?’ // They openly showed their hatred. They said: ‘You’ll see. Do you think things will be good here?’ // I didn’t let the Ukrainian drone operators into the basement. There were eight of us there—mostly elderly women, and me as the only relatively able man, plus Kolya, the disabled man. A Ukrainian soldier fired a burst over my head and said: ‘What, aren’t you afraid?’ I replied that I’d already had my share of fear when I served in the army. // One neighbor disappeared—Vitya Shuminsky from the second floor. Russian troops weren’t even nearby yet, but we were shelled every night by the Ukrainians for two months straight with mortars. // They would drive out from the stadium in a pickup truck with a mortar in the back, followed by another vehicle, probably with ammunition. They fired at the city, at kindergartens. One time they left at 11 p.m. and fired until morning, hitting whatever they could. Another time, at 6 p.m., already dark, four mortars started firing. The Russians weren’t even in Maksimilianovka yet. // The Ukrainians had a motto: ‘What is not Ukraine is ruins.’ And they destroyed all the infrastructure themselves. // We even know—the city mayor, many people can confirm this—ordered the Ukrainian military what to bomb. // They hit schools, kindergartens, residential buildings, the shopping center, the post office. Pensioners remained in the city and received pensions at the post office. When people gathered there, they struck it and destroyed it. // They didn’t spare their own people. Shelters meant for civilians were given to the military. Humanitarian aid was often divided and stolen, while people were given only simple pasta and flour. // As for Russian speakers—they hated us terribly. I wanted to charge a flashlight from a Ukrainian soldier; he took the charger and broke it. He himself was from Ternopil, 20 years old, named Bohdan. They were from Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne regions. // They also killed Gennady—we knew him from work. He was a year older than us, 68. He saw Ukrainian soldiers appear in the neighboring entrance, and since he was a smoker and cigarettes were scarce, he said: ‘I’ll run over and ask them—even buy one.’ He knocked on the basement door. It was terrible—they dragged him in and killed him. Only his hat remained. His wife lived on the fifth floor but never found the body. // I stored firewood in the seventh entrance for the stove. I noticed packages from pills appearing near my wood, and they were cooking something in a pot—some foul-smelling orange substance. Most likely drugs. Those were definitely narcotic pills. // Later I went for firewood, and on the first floor the door was open. In fact, all doors up to the fifth floor were open. In one apartment on the first floor, I saw a dead Ukrainian soldier sitting in a chair. I looked and left, never went back. // Later, when Russian soldiers—our guys, sappers—arrived, they checked it. They said: ‘Don’t go into that apartment on the right, where the Ukrainian soldier is sitting in the chair—it’s mined. Not only his body, but an explosive device is connected to a water canteen next to him. There’s half a canteen of drinking water there—don’t touch it. The Ukrainians mined their own soldier’s body.’”

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Tatyana Ivanovna Lazko, Kurakhove (Donetsk People’s Republic): // “Five houses in a row caught fire. There was Ukrainian shelling of those houses. We already more or less understand what is flying where and from where. // One person was dug out from under the rubble. The relatives took them away somewhere else in the city. // When I went the next day—my sister has an apartment there—I went there, and those Ukrainian soldiers were shouting: ‘In 10 days all the houses will be like this, all the houses will be burning.’ This was in November 2024. // They burned it down—I think it was a show for those who stayed here. Like a visual example, a lesson for those who remained in the city. From the Ukrainian side.”

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Anton Vladimirovich Savich, city of Vuhledar (Donetsk People’s Republic // “Throughout all this time, the Ukrainians—well, there was constant fire, they were shooting from everywhere. They were firing from the west. // The shelling was constant. Sometimes it was even hard to sleep—three years of continuous shelling. Visually, we saw that they were Ukrainian nationalists. // Here, near the school entrance, a vehicle arrived. There was food—humanitarian aid, water, grains, porridge in boxes. These were chaplains, from Christian churches. ‘Let’s pray, let’s pray,’ they said. The vehicle drove off, and immediately shells started landing. The metal door was riddled like a sieve—you could even take it off, it’s completely shot through. A man and I often played chess there. // Local residents were killed and torn apart by the shells and explosions. Here are the graves. We buried people wherever we could—on a garbage site, wherever possible. I personally buried Ruslan at the very beginning. Denis is buried here, then Andrey. Igor’s wrestling coach—just about half a year ago—came out of his basement, and a shell landed, tearing him apart. // Ruslan died two years ago, at the very beginning, down by the exit near the bus stop of the first mine—that’s where his grave is. // There was a barrel at the corner near ‘Vector.’ We used to go there for water. Four people were blown to pieces—flesh was scattered everywhere. And there were many such cases, just from shelling.”

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I heard that the translated testimonies had some minor translation errors and readability issues, but I figured these ones were okay.

‼️ I do not speak English. If you want to double check the translation I suggest running it through DeepL, Yandex or Google translate ‼️

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Yulia Viktorovna Yayno, a witness to crimes of the Kyiv regime in the city of Mariupol // (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “Ukrainians from ‘Azov’ abducted girls, raped them, // and abused them in all kinds of perverse ways. // They injected construction foam into women’s internal organs. // These are not people – they are beasts.”

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Sorry, I'm spending the least amount of time on this section because it turned out to be the most difficult for me.

I was unable to find the original Russian text of these testimonies.

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https://democracyfund.ru/userfiles/Doklad%20Krasnoarmeysk.pdf

https://democracyfund.ru/userfiles/CRIMES%20OF%20THE%20KIEV%20REGIME%20AGAINST%20WOMEN%20AND%20CHILDREN-Rus.pdf

https://democracyfund.ru/userfiles/Military%20Crimes2.pdf

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The latest official figures on civilian deaths in LPR-controlled Lugansk date back to 2023 and put the number at at least 3,169. The most recent figures on civilian deaths in DPR-controlled Donetsk do not include casualties from mass killings in cities under Ukrainian control, but only civilian casualties in separatist/Russian-controlled Donbass as a result of Ukrainian attacks on civilians. The total death toll stands at 13,108. However, the Human Rights Commissioner for Lugansk, Anna Soroka, estimates the death toll in Lugansk at 6,000. This brings the total to 16,000. This figure does not include casualties from mass killings, drone strikes, airstrikes, shelling, etc. in Donetsk (I'm not sure if Soroka included the Ukrainian-controlled LPR in her estimate) when it was under Ukrainian control, and I don't think that includes, at least on the DPR side, the dead found later in mass graves, of which there were many. This means that, if we were to stay on the safe side, a reasonable estimate of the civilian death toll in Donbas would be 17,000, but most estimates point to 20,000 deaths.

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This is the most exhausting, sickly, and painful section for me, and it could be a video essay in itself. I've selected several examples of high-ranking Ukrainian politicians and military leaders to illustrate Ukraine's intent to commit genocide. This is by no means an exhaustive overview.

There is of course our current Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine and former Chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine, Lieutenant general Kyrylo Oleksiiovych Budanov of “Don’t continue with that topic. All I will comment on is that we’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.” and openly supporting Nation Europa fame. Who is Nation Europa I wonder? Well it’s difficult to find out now because the Wikipedia page has been taken down, but I managed to dig it up on Internet Archive

Huh, there’s a lot of Ukrainian Armed Forces battalions who operate in Donbass in that member list But belonging to an international alliance of Russophobic Ukrainian nationalist neo-Nazis does not necessarily imply genocidal intent. Take, for example, one of the alliance's founders, Svoboda, one of Ukraine's five leading political parties. Several of their paramilitaries have become part of the Ukrainian army, such as the Sich Battalion, formed in 2014 by Svoboda to fight in Donbass and still fighting in Donbass under the name the 4th Sich Company of the Kyiv Regiment and under the watchful eye of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I am certain they have never said anything that amounted to genocidal intent against the people of Donbass.

Whoops… Well at least she’s never been officially endorsed by the Ukrainian Government!

Oh

Who was Mr. "we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world" replacing as the honourable head of the Ukrainian presidential office? Well that would be Andriy Borysovych Yermak, who while having left the president’s office, remains a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, member of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and Chief of staff of the Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian and Social Affairs. Yermak, during his tenure as the Head of Office for Zelensky, once said, “Russians, these inhumans, have no right to be among civilized citizens of Western countries at all.” and “The Russians will pay for all the victims of the Holodomor and will be held accountable for today’s crimes. This will be a historic moment of reckoning. It is already awaiting the Russian nation.” and “The entire Russian nation will be punished for the evil for which it is responsible. It will not be possible to avoid punishment.” You get the idea, he talks a lot.

There's also Poroshenko's infamous speech, in which he says Ukraine will win the war by depriving the residents of Donbass of pensions, jobs, education support, and safety (our children will go to schools and kindergartens, while their children will live in basements/bomb shelters).

Ukraine’s former Minister of Social Policy Andriy Oleksiyovych Reva said about the people of Donbass: “Everyone who was pro-Ukrainian has left. And those who want to receive two pensions, one here and one here, let them endure. I don't feel sorry for them at all. I feel sorry for those soldiers and officers and their families who were killed there for these scum.”

Oleg Livanchuk, the head of the Krasnogorsk city military-state administration, said of the residents of the Donetsk Region city: "…And the television here is only Russian. That's why the people here are weak-willed. Plus, there's a large percentage of stupid people here… It's a neutral territory between two states, where marginalized people and criminals were exiled. And you can't change genes. A lot is born in the genes. That's your gene pool."

Semen Ihorovych Semenchenko, founder and commander of the 2nd Special Forces Battalion famous for their war crimes of the National Guard "Donbas", as well as former First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on National Security and Defence said in 2019 “In my understanding, Ukraine should have a strategy to depopulate Donbass. But despite the terrifying name, there's nothing genocidal about it… It's necessary to extract all labor resources from the occupied territories.” He was a recipient of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, third class, from the President of Ukraine and received a Makarov pistol from the head of the Security Service of Ukraine

There was also the instances of Ukraine attempting to stop COVID 19 vaccines from entering Donbass in the middle of the Pandemic, and the Ukrainian Government softly calling to an end to funding of the Russian Red Cross because it operates in Russian controlled Donbass, where the Ukrainian Red Cross cannot enter, effectively depriving the Donbass region of the Red Cross all together.

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I guess I’m doing this. I do not expect anything good to come of this I don’t expect this person to listen or learn, they are using denial of the genocide of the Donchane people solely to rage bait Russians online who they’ve gotten into discourse with. I fully expect them to respond to this with accusations that it’s just like Uyghurs, Holodomor, anti-Iranian propaganda etc. but it feels like it would be wrong to ignore nonetheless.

Vladimir Vasilyevich Romanenko // (68 years old), city of Selidovo // (Donetsk People’s Republic) // Comment by a medical worker during the inspection of the site of his family’s killing: //“In my left hand are clearly human remains. These are ribs, fragments of bones. This is a woman’s hair clip, found among a pile of burned body fragments. In my right hand I have remains of a human spinal column.” // “Right here, on this very spot, my family was shot, and when their bodies were burned, I did not see it. They were completely burned, most likely because the Ukrainian soldier saw me run away. In my hands I have the hair clip of my daughter-in-law — little Olechka, my daughter-in-law’s clip. She was standing right here. // At seven in the morning, I went outside to the toilet in the yard, in the garden. I went out there and heard shouting: ‘Everyone come out of the house.’ It was a man shouting, a Ukrainian soldier, in Ukrainian camouflage with a green stripe. He looked about 50 years old, short in height. // When they brought my family out of the house and made them stand facing the wall, he was shouting across the whole street. There were two of them. One stood a bit further away, and the other stood in such a way that I could see him very clearly. // From the side of the garage they placed my wife, then my grandson, my son — I don’t remember exactly. Then my daughter-in-law and the matchmaker — the daughter-in-law’s mother. My daughter-in-law started crying, saying: ‘What are you doing?’ And he just started shooting. He shot my wife first. Then he went on shooting the others. I ran away through the garden. // Later, when I came back on the 28th, I saw the bodies lying by the wall where they had been shot. But they had been burned. The next day I went, found some bags, and gathered the remains. Where it had burned, I covered the remains. Everything that was there, I collected into five bags and buried them here under the entrance to my building. We buried five people — five bags that remained — my family. Years of birth: 1951, 1955, 1978, 1974, and 1991.”

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Vladimir Nikolaevich Pogorelov // city of Selidovo // (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “I was buying milk in Voroshilovka. An old man asked Ukrainian soldiers: ‘Boys, when the Russians come, how will we live with them?’ One of them, the biggest one, turned and said: ‘Grandpa, don’t be afraid of the Russians — be afraid of us.’ He said: ‘We have 600 guns; when we leave, we’ll wipe Selidovo out.’ Since 2015 they’ve been promising to wipe us out. Ukrainian soldiers personally told my mother twice, and almost all women: ‘When we leave, we’ll wipe Selidovo off the face of the earth.’ But I stayed so it wouldn’t be wiped out. // Near shop No. 56, people used to gather to buy things. A mortar shell hit there once — no one was killed. A week later, people gathered again. I was thinking of going in the morning to buy mineral water but decided to go after noon. My godfather Alexei and my friend Gena went there to buy meat. Around ten o’clock a shell hit — four people were wounded. A woman had her kidney torn out, Gena had his leg pierced and an artery severed. A fragment got stuck and wasn’t removed. My godfather Alexei Vanin also had his leg pierced through and a graze to the head. Ukraine was firing. September–October. // In September, near the Revino bridge, I went to feed dogs. Ukrainian soldiers lived three houses down. When they left, they simply threw a grenade into the house. It caught fire and burned for two days because people were afraid it might be mined. // Or on Ostrovsky Street — a soldier came out from two houses down. Three minutes later, the house exploded. // Refugees from Peski and Pervomaisk were living in the children’s hospital. Ukrainian soldiers came, inspected the building, saw where people were living, collected all the fire extinguishers, and left. About six hours later, a strike hit — from Ostrovsky Street. It hit exactly where the refugees were living. There were no fire extinguishers, nothing to put out the fire. Those who survived gathered and fled further into Ukraine. // Russian troops were not there yet. They entered on Thursday around 2 p.m. On Tuesday, Ukrainian soldiers entered house No. 19, in front of mine. They went around breaking doors and shooting everyone they found. Anyone who opened the door was shot in the head. An 80-year-old grandmother, a lifelong teacher, was shot in the head. Everyone there was shot in the head. Three people survived — one didn’t manage to open the door, another barricaded himself and heard French and Ukrainian speech. A Frenchman said something, and a Ukrainian replied: ‘We don’t have time to break doors anymore. We’ve already cleared it.’ They left him alive because they had no time. // On Wednesday, someone with a Georgian accent walked through our yard shouting: ‘Is anyone alive?’ He reached my building. I was about to answer when he started swearing. I gathered the residents — six of us — to decide whether to open. We decided not to, since he was swearing. We waited for someone more polite. That was Wednesday — he was deliberately looking for civilians to kill. // In our building, they took a family of five, including a child, out into the yard and shot them. Ukrainian soldiers. // Snipers were placed here, and starting Tuesday they shot all the men. One ran into a shop — the sniper shot him there. His body is still lying there. // At the intersection, bodies lie in a row. All were shot in the head. Around this house, all the men were shot by Ukrainian snipers, maybe mercenaries. // A son came from a nearby street, saw his father lying dead, and ran home for shovels. While running, a sniper shot him in the head. He didn’t manage to bury his father.”

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Valentina Yevgenyevna Vasilkonova, city of Selidovo (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “On October 21, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were retreating. We were standing by the entrance, and they started shooting. We heard Ukrainian speech: ‘Come here, come here.’ We ran and scattered into the entrances. My front door was shot through. I ran inside quickly, and a Ukrainian soldier shouted: ‘She ran over there.’ And they shot through my door — there’s still a hole in it to this day. // They also fired at the building across from us, number 12. We ran inside, but people were standing in entrance number 12 across the way. They locked the entrance. The Ukrainian soldiers said: ‘Open up, open up, nothing will happen to you.’ Aunt Valya opened it, and they shot the four of them. They hadn’t done anything. Lena was just sitting on the couch. They shot her. They shot her son, asking why he wasn’t fighting. They shot Sasha. Aunt Valya started screaming, and they shot her too. Lena said: ‘What are you doing?’ One of the soldiers said: ‘What should we do with her?’ Another said: ‘Just finish her.’ And they did.

A boy, Kolya, ran in. He lived nearby and had heard the shooting. He ran over, and they shot him too. Four people at once. Then they stayed in that apartment — about twelve of them. A young man living across saw everything through the window. They shot up his windows. // One man came out to surrender, and they shot him. He was lying near the entrance. In our Solnechny district, six people are lying dead. A woman was walking with a bag — a Ukrainian soldier shot her. Once, twice, three times. My neighbor Sasha told me: the soldier shot her three times. At first she started moving, and the soldier said: ‘Oh, you’re still moving?’ and shot again. ‘Waiters, waiters, waiters’ — that’s all we heard from them. // Sasha’s kitchen windows were shot up because they were firing. His door was shot too. My door was shot in the first entrance, his in the second. // When they were retreating, they shot at us. It’s good I hid… They opened the entrance and shot at the doors because they saw me running. Thank God they didn’t come into the apartment. If they had come in // In the neighboring house, a woman was feeding cats. Aunt Lena was 75 — they shot her. And Kirillovna, a Ukrainian language teacher, was running, made it into the entrance, but a soldier caught up with her and shot her. A 75-year-old woman feeding cats — why shoot her? // Those who write comments to me, those who left, say: ‘It can’t be Ukraine, Ukraine didn’t touch us when we lived there.’ But I stayed — I know it was Ukraine. // How do you prove that it was Ukraine who killed, and not Russia? Russia came — did they shoot us? No, on the contrary, they help us. They ask if we have food. We say we have everything, thank you. They help — they even brought me firewood. // My son also died on the 21st. He and Ruslan, a friend, and Seryozha went to a house on Ostrovskaya Street, 18, to drop off a friend. They arrived, got out — and Ukrainian soldiers were still sitting across from them. On the 22nd they had already reached our Solnechny district. It was around 10:30 at night. The soldiers said to them: ‘Why are you driving around?’ — ‘We brought a friend,’ Aunt Valya told me, Seryozha Sklyar’s mother. They kept asking: ‘Why are you driving around?’ // When I was burying my son, neighbors told me the soldiers had been drunk, they started picking on the boys, asking: ‘Why aren’t you fighting?’ I don’t know how it happened. They shot up the car — it’s still there by the house, riddled with bullets. Then they killed Seryozha. They carried him and laid him down. While they were carrying him, the soldiers were shooting at my son, Yevgeny Kirilenko. Aunt Valya said: ‘I started treating my son — his leg and arm were shot.’ // Then Zhenya went outside — a dog started whining. The soldiers had already shot the dog. He went out to it, and at around 10:30 at night they shot him near the dog. Then a soldier told Aunt Valya: ‘Look what they’re doing in that house.’ She said: ‘There’s no one left — you’ve already killed them all.’ And my son was lying there, dead. He hadn’t done anything. They weren’t rude, they didn’t argue, they didn’t say anything. They killed him simply for ‘why aren’t you fighting,’ for supposedly waiting for Russia. // Aunt Valya didn’t even hear our boys respond — they stayed silent. Then the soldiers came back and finished him off, in case he was still alive. Aunt Valya started screaming: ‘What are you doing, you butchers? You’ve already killed my son and now you’re killing him too.’ They didn’t touch Ruslan at first — he was the one bandaging him. // In the morning, when Ruslan tried to go out, the soldiers, while retreating, shot him too. So three people died at once. // Then the soldiers came here to our Solnechny district. So many people were killed here — bodies were lying around.

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Sergey Gennadievich Boenko, city of Selidovo (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “During their retreat, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were simply shooting everyone they came across. They went into apartment entrances, knocked on doors, broke down wooden doors, and shot those who opened them. On October 22, during the retreat, sometime after one o’clock, we heard intense automatic gunfire. // On the morning of the 23rd, I looked out the window and saw a dead man near entrance No. 6 of building 77 on Mikhaylovskaya Street. I went to the former ‘Solnechny’ shop and also saw a dead person on the corner. As it turned out, it was the neighbor of Sergey from the nearby building. He was killed on the corner of the building. // Neighbors saw that our neighbor had been killed. She was lying near the ‘Kolorit’ shop. Within a radius of one hundred meters from my brother’s apartment, I saw eight dead people. Valya — a neighbor from the first entrance — I buried her between the building and the shop. // Further on, near building 77, by the first entrance near the sidewalk, I saw two dead men of elderly age. Another dead person was near the sixth entrance. Near the ‘Solnechny’ shop, at the left corner of the store, lay Sergey Kasimov. At the right corner, behind the former ‘Soyuzpechat’ kiosk, there was another dead man. Behind the shops on the boulevard on the former Shchorsa Street (it was renamed under Ukrainian authorities), there was another man. And near building 12, by the first entrance, there was a dead man. // Another dead person lay near the turn by the house, near a concrete sewer cover. A second lay on the corner of that shop. A third man lay dead further down the sidewalk below the shop. One of them had been covered with something — he was about seventy years old. I had seen him alive several times before. // Varvara Sadchikova, a resident of the building’s first entrance, was killed about ten meters from here. I buried her on the 30th. She used to walk, loved dogs. She had dogs. She went out walking and was killed on the 22nd. // Near the second school there is a small-family dormitory building with a savings bank attached to it. Near the first entrance, right by a bench, there was a dead man lying there. Apparently, local residents had already covered him with something. That’s what I saw. // The Ukrainian Armed Forces also killed my former colleague from the mine, Volodya Borisov. At the intersection with Shevchenko Street. He was killed there in the same way as the others, during the retreat. You can’t call them soldiers… they’re monsters. They killed everyone indiscriminately. He was also killed. He had gone to fetch water, and they shot him there. // Why were they killed? I’ll tell you my view. Since 1991, there has been this rise of the Bandera narrative — that Bandera is a hero, that all those who were in the SS ‘Galicia’ division were actually fighting for Ukraine and did not kill civilians, and so on. But in reality, from the history we learned in Soviet school, we all know. // For ‘true’ Ukrainians now, the dream is to ‘rule’ — to dominate, to reign. Not through their own work, but by exploiting others — us, the eastern people.”

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Nikolai Vasilievich Glukhanich, // city of Kurakhovo (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “On December 19, 2024, I went out to take out the trash and on the way wanted to pick up a few more pieces of firewood from some broken wood. And Ukrainians dropped a drone on me near the second entrance, where the trash is off to the side, behind our building.

I have five fragments in me. In my temple, here on my arm there’s still a strong mark, and in my thigh. Where the temple is, you can clearly see it. If you want, I can take it off and show you how my shoulder was torn apart. // I was wearing this padded jacket, this quilted coat. It tore through it. It went from bottom to top. And right into the temple—can you imagine, two centimeters from the eye or so. It tore the hood, tore everything, and it was all very painful. Also here in the shin, in the leg. In total, five fragments. They’re small. They fired once. I already jumped into the entrance, and then a second time—the second drop was stronger. That is, they were finishing me off. // Another time before that, I was fixing doors in this entrance where I live. I reacted to the sound. When it hit—well, I managed to sit down in the entrance. My arm was hit—very strong, like by some kind of pellet. Extremely strong, like after a blow. Very, very painful. // They knew civilians lived here, knew we were civilians, saw that we were trying to clean around the house—they were watching us very closely. And they struck deliberately. They knew we were civilians. // Before me, the Terekhov family was injured. They went for water or firewood, and the son went first, around nine in the morning. I think he went for water; there was frost then, this was December 15, and he couldn’t get any. We were collecting water from a drainage outlet—it was closer and safer. But he probably went to the base where there were supplies of bottled water. Then his mother goes—he’s still not back—and she went to look for him. // I live on the fourth floor, I hear her shouting: ‘People, help!’ And she’s crawling there, along that alley behind the bank, crawling and rolling over. My God! I went out, started looking for people; a man from that building helped, and another one here. We found a blanket, pulled her out, then we see Sergey—her son—crawling too. She had a wound in her lower back and, I think, in the right leg, above the knee. And the son had an open fracture in the right shin. A terrible open fracture—the bone was sticking out. // She went to look for him after two or three hours. And they themselves were crawling and rolling, covering about half a kilometer like that. We dragged them maybe 100–150 meters—not much. With the fracture we just put on splints. It was December. // The drone knew that only civilians lived here. It’s bad, very bad. Ukrainians were finishing off their own. Then they started firing at our building. The windows are broken; I had just patched them up. It was coming from the direction of Dachnoye, where Ukraine was positioned. // They fired to the point that some kind of projectile flew in—I don’t know what it’s called, I still have the casing from it. It flew into the room, smashed things—seven through-holes in the kitchen, then it went through the bathroom, the storage room, then into the living room. About 30 holes in total, some through, some not. // Near the church, a young guy was injured. He lay in the basement for a month. He was also hit by a Ukrainian drone—he had been going for water, or they were feeding people in the church basement. He lived in that basement for a month and died near the church, somewhere there he was buried. His name was Viktor. // Others lived on Engels Street, and they had some kind of conflict with Ukrainian soldiers: ‘Why aren’t you leaving the city?’ And they were simply shot. I think they were pensioners—a man and a woman, maybe just below retirement age. It was Ukrainian soldiers who shot them. // Another man lived—he also had some kind of conflict with Ukrainian soldiers—they threw a grenade under his feet. His surname was Osipovich, in Yuzhny, that’s what I was told. Around 45 years old. // I wanted to go to church for Christmas. Ukrainians were dropping charges from drones, like mines, watching us from drones and striking like with mines. I couldn’t even go to church for Christmas.”

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Vitaliy Viktorovich Kolesnik, city of Kurakhovo (Donetsk People’s Republic // “People tried at night to run to a safe place, to the village of Krasnoye. They said they were shot at, struck by drones—basically, people were being killed. They were heading toward Donetsk, that is, toward the Russian troops. They were looking for safety, running there, running toward the Russian forces. And these enemies—‘Nazi’ Ukrainian soldiers—were firing at them, not letting them get there. // At some point people were looking for water. There’s the Vorsovskaya base here; there used to be a warehouse with water there—packs, maybe 19-liter ones, around ten of them. Some water remained, and people went there looking for it. Ukrainian drones attacked them. Many civilian bodies were lying right on the road. I even know the surname of one young guy—Terekhov—who was injured. A drone attacked him and damaged his legs. He started crawling. There was no one around. Then he rolled along near the highway, along the roadside with his injured legs. Eventually he crawled somewhere to a house and shouted for help. Apparently people heard him and pulled him out. And his mother was waiting for him. Her name was Valentina, may she rest in peace. She went to look for him, and a drone attacked her too. Somehow people carried them into a basement. But the mother couldn’t be saved—she died. Valentina Terekhova.

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Aleksandr Dmitrievich Chotiy, city of Kurakhovo (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “On December 20, 2024, my neighbor and I were living in a basement. We needed to go down into the cellar for household needs—get some potatoes, maybe some preserved food. We went behind the house and heard a drone flying in from the west. It flew behind the house, seemed like it kept going. // The cellar is very close—about five meters from the house. My neighbor was going down into the cellar, and I was standing nearby. Literally a second later, the drone came back and dropped something. // I fell. I couldn’t move because I realized a nerve in my thigh had been severed—in my right leg, and also in my left, it hit my toe and foot. // There was a man, Aleksandr Nikolayevich Kutsuvalov, born in 1980. A Ukrainian drone was specifically hunting him and two other people, dropped something on them, and he was also wounded. He lived at 10 Komsomolsky Avenue, apartment 20. // Ukrainian forces want to inflict maximum damage on the local residents who stayed here. They believe that those who stayed are ‘waiters,’ meaning they are waiting for the ‘Russian world.’ Most likely, that is why—to cause as much harm as possible to the local population.”

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Igor Aleksandrovich Kamenetsky, city of Kurakhove (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “On October 30, 2024, it was my father’s birthday. I congratulated him, then went to pass on greetings to a neighbor. We were with him in the garage, at 85 Michurina Street. // Two Ukrainian soldiers came in; with them was Andrey Bitner, born in 1976. They made us lie on the floor. I was struck on the head from above with a foot. When they entered the garage, they said: ‘Why didn’t you evacuate, you waiters.’ Basically, it was all ‘waiters, waiters, waiters.’ // They told us to lie face down. I was face down, and they kicked me in the back of the head with boots. Vova was shot in the arm. One of them asked about the car—whether it worked or not, what condition it was in, whether there was gasoline or not. They got in and drove away. // A second one stayed with us. The Ukrainian servicemen put us in a pit, back to back, made us take off our outer clothing, and took off our shoes. // One soldier continued: what are you doing here, translate from Ukrainian to Russian, from Russian to Ukrainian, do you know Ukrainian? // They forced us to sing the anthem. One told me to move toward the gate, press my head down, hands up—and a shot rang out. I saw Andrey slump to the side. // Another Ukrainian soldier came in. He said: ‘I’m here for you.’ They made me lie face down on the ground again. Again, questions: what are you doing here, what are you waiting for? // There was also a question from the second soldier to the first one who came in. He said: ‘Why did you kill that one?’ And he replied: ‘I didn’t want to guard two.’ // Then another one told me: ‘Get up and run.’ I said: where? ‘To Dnipropetrovsk.’ I ran to the turn, went around the corner to a neighbor. I asked for shoes, clothes, something to throw on.”

[machine translated]

‼️ I do not speak English. If you want to double check the translation I suggest running it through DeepL, Yandex or Google translate ‼️

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Sergey Konstantinovich Andreev, city of Kurakhove (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “When the Ukrainian shelling began, we, of course, suffered greatly from it. Many were wounded, and there were deaths. // Acquaintances were returning home during curfew and saw that a Ukrainian unit was standing by a tank, and the commander was giving them orders: three shots at the city, two at the Kurakhove thermal power plant. // Our workers at the power plant tried in every possible way to provide heat and electricity to the city. But the Ukrainians hindered this. // Our mayor, whose surname is Padun, worked at the power plant and knew where to direct mortar fire, where it would hit most painfully so that it would take longer to repair. // And that’s why the Ukrainian military fired precisely at the transformer substation. As soon as smoke came out of the power plant’s chimney, shelling would begin. This was the first sign that people had restored the plant’s operation and started up the units to provide heat and electricity. // Mayor Padun knew exactly where to strike. According to rumors, he even gave instructions to the director—several directors changed at the plant during that period—to stop supplying heat, preserve the equipment, and evacuate all workers. // There were many collapses during the shelling, with people trapped under the rubble. There were many injuries, including shrapnel wounds. // The director of our lyceum was also affected in the same way. A strike hit while she was at home. In the kitchen, part of the window was blown out by the blast wave, and that fragment killed her. // Whenever shelling occurred, for some reason none of the Ukrainian soldiers suffered. They were warned in advance, and only civilians suffered. // There were many injuries. On my younger daughter’s birthday, a strike landed nearby. One woman was killed and another was seriously wounded. People were simply sitting on a bench when the Ukrainian shelling happened. // Later, drones appeared here—there were so many that it seemed like a swarm of bees. It was incredibly loud; they fell, exploded, and dropped payloads. Our apartment was damaged. It was a so-called ‘Baba Yaga’ drone. // We live on the fifth floor; in one room there is basically no ceiling anymore. The Ukrainian ‘Baba Yaga’ drone is one of the larger ones. We somehow learned to hide all the time. // Ukrainian troops did not reach our basement, but in the neighboring building they did and even took people hostage. People were sitting in the basement, and they drove them up to the first and second floors to use them as human shields. // I heard this from conversations with an acquaintance of mine who was in that basement.”

[machine translated]

Alexander Anatolyevich Machula and Elena Vladimirovna Machula, Kurakhove (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “On the first floor of our building lived a disabled man of the third category, Nikolai Ivanovich Samokhval, 57 years old. A support group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces came and killed him on December 23, sometime between 11 p.m. and midnight. Those who saw the body said there was a hematoma on the back of his skull. I understand it was a blow from a rifle butt. // One of four Ukrainian soldiers killed him. Four Ukrainian soldiers came to support those who were in the cooperative building and the House of Culture. The most brutal and stubborn among them had the callsign ‘Den,’ Dima. I didn’t let them into the entrance at first, but as soon as they got in, he pointed his rifle at me and said: ‘If you, old man, stop me from passing one more time, I’ll shoot you.’ //They threatened us, saying that when the Russians come, they’ll slaughter all of you. They said Russians eat dogs and cats, and that we are not people to them. // They stole property. Right in front of us, a Ukrainian soldier, about 20 years old, opened a wardrobe in the apartment opposite—a two-room flat. He told me he couldn’t wait to turn 18 to sign a contract with the Ukrainian army; he wanted to fight. He tore off a very strong lock, rummaged through drawers, and anything he found—he put in his pocket if it was valuable. // We all watched this in our entrance. We saw them breaking doors open without any hesitation, using crowbars. On the second floor, they fired several rounds from a 5.45 mm rifle while breaking down a door. // They arrived on December 19, 2024, around noon, and locked us in from the outside. They used us as a shield—I insist on that. I told them: ‘What are you doing, guys? You can’t do this.’ // Below us, they broke down the door of our neighbor Shanin. There was a sniper on the first floor beneath us, and a grenade launcher operator—the same ‘Den.’ They didn’t let us go anywhere. We couldn’t even go for water—we didn’t have water even to flush the toilet. // We used to go to a well under building 2V, but the Ukrainians locked us in. We cooked outside, and when I brought boiling water in, a Ukrainian soldier locked us inside with our own key. For three days, they didn’t let us out at all.

They left on December 23. I heard the key turn in the lock—that’s when we were finally able to go into the entrance. // The Ukrainians used drones a lot. They attacked us personally twice. We were walking from our damaged house, carrying some potatoes along Mechnikov Street, when a Ukrainian drone attacked us. Luckily, it got caught in the branches of a tree near the House of Culture. // The Ukrainian soldiers saw that civilians were walking. I was wearing a padded jacket, and my wife was wearing one too. We were carrying bags, and they still launched a drone at us. // They strike civilians so that we would talk less about what they were doing. Ukrainian soldiers believed that those who stayed here were already separatists, no longer Ukraine. They said to us: ‘What, are you waiting for the tricolors? Waiting for the Russian army?’ // They openly showed their hatred. They said: ‘You’ll see. Do you think things will be good here?’ // I didn’t let the Ukrainian drone operators into the basement. There were eight of us there—mostly elderly women, and me as the only relatively able man, plus Kolya, the disabled man. A Ukrainian soldier fired a burst over my head and said: ‘What, aren’t you afraid?’ I replied that I’d already had my share of fear when I served in the army. // One neighbor disappeared—Vitya Shuminsky from the second floor. Russian troops weren’t even nearby yet, but we were shelled every night by the Ukrainians for two months straight with mortars. // They would drive out from the stadium in a pickup truck with a mortar in the back, followed by another vehicle, probably with ammunition. They fired at the city, at kindergartens. One time they left at 11 p.m. and fired until morning, hitting whatever they could. Another time, at 6 p.m., already dark, four mortars started firing. The Russians weren’t even in Maksimilianovka yet. // The Ukrainians had a motto: ‘What is not Ukraine is ruins.’ And they destroyed all the infrastructure themselves. // We even know—the city mayor, many people can confirm this—ordered the Ukrainian military what to bomb. // They hit schools, kindergartens, residential buildings, the shopping center, the post office. Pensioners remained in the city and received pensions at the post office. When people gathered there, they struck it and destroyed it. // They didn’t spare their own people. Shelters meant for civilians were given to the military. Humanitarian aid was often divided and stolen, while people were given only simple pasta and flour. // As for Russian speakers—they hated us terribly. I wanted to charge a flashlight from a Ukrainian soldier; he took the charger and broke it. He himself was from Ternopil, 20 years old, named Bohdan. They were from Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne regions. // They also killed Gennady—we knew him from work. He was a year older than us, 68. He saw Ukrainian soldiers appear in the neighboring entrance, and since he was a smoker and cigarettes were scarce, he said: ‘I’ll run over and ask them—even buy one.’ He knocked on the basement door. It was terrible—they dragged him in and killed him. Only his hat remained. His wife lived on the fifth floor but never found the body. // I stored firewood in the seventh entrance for the stove. I noticed packages from pills appearing near my wood, and they were cooking something in a pot—some foul-smelling orange substance. Most likely drugs. Those were definitely narcotic pills. // Later I went for firewood, and on the first floor the door was open. In fact, all doors up to the fifth floor were open. In one apartment on the first floor, I saw a dead Ukrainian soldier sitting in a chair. I looked and left, never went back. // Later, when Russian soldiers—our guys, sappers—arrived, they checked it. They said: ‘Don’t go into that apartment on the right, where the Ukrainian soldier is sitting in the chair—it’s mined. Not only his body, but an explosive device is connected to a water canteen next to him. There’s half a canteen of drinking water there—don’t touch it. The Ukrainians mined their own soldier’s body.’”

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Tatyana Ivanovna Lazko, Kurakhove (Donetsk People’s Republic): // “Five houses in a row caught fire. There was Ukrainian shelling of those houses. We already more or less understand what is flying where and from where. // One person was dug out from under the rubble. The relatives took them away somewhere else in the city. // When I went the next day—my sister has an apartment there—I went there, and those Ukrainian soldiers were shouting: ‘In 10 days all the houses will be like this, all the houses will be burning.’ This was in November 2024. // They burned it down—I think it was a show for those who stayed here. Like a visual example, a lesson for those who remained in the city. From the Ukrainian side.”

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Anton Vladimirovich Savich, city of Vuhledar (Donetsk People’s Republic // “Throughout all this time, the Ukrainians—well, there was constant fire, they were shooting from everywhere. They were firing from the west. // The shelling was constant. Sometimes it was even hard to sleep—three years of continuous shelling. Visually, we saw that they were Ukrainian nationalists. // Here, near the school entrance, a vehicle arrived. There was food—humanitarian aid, water, grains, porridge in boxes. These were chaplains, from Christian churches. ‘Let’s pray, let’s pray,’ they said. The vehicle drove off, and immediately shells started landing. The metal door was riddled like a sieve—you could even take it off, it’s completely shot through. A man and I often played chess there. // Local residents were killed and torn apart by the shells and explosions. Here are the graves. We buried people wherever we could—on a garbage site, wherever possible. I personally buried Ruslan at the very beginning. Denis is buried here, then Andrey. Igor’s wrestling coach—just about half a year ago—came out of his basement, and a shell landed, tearing him apart. // Ruslan died two years ago, at the very beginning, down by the exit near the bus stop of the first mine—that’s where his grave is. // There was a barrel at the corner near ‘Vector.’ We used to go there for water. Four people were blown to pieces—flesh was scattered everywhere. And there were many such cases, just from shelling.”

[machine translated]

I heard that the translated testimonies had some minor translation errors and readability issues, but I figured these ones were okay.

‼️ I do not speak English. If you want to double check the translation I suggest running it through DeepL, Yandex or Google translate ‼️

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Yulia Viktorovna Yayno, a witness to crimes of the Kyiv regime in the city of Mariupol // (Donetsk People’s Republic) // “Ukrainians from ‘Azov’ abducted girls, raped them, // and abused them in all kinds of perverse ways. // They injected construction foam into women’s internal organs. // These are not people – they are beasts.”

machine translated

Sorry, I'm spending the least amount of time on this section because it turned out to be the most difficult for me.

I was unable to find the original Russian text of these testimonies.

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https://democracyfund.ru/userfiles/Doklad%20Krasnoarmeysk.pdf

https://democracyfund.ru/userfiles/CRIMES%20OF%20THE%20KIEV%20REGIME%20AGAINST%20WOMEN%20AND%20CHILDREN-Rus.pdf

https://democracyfund.ru/userfiles/Military%20Crimes2.pdf

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The latest official figures on civilian deaths in LPR-controlled Lugansk date back to 2023 and put the number at at least 3,169. The most recent figures on civilian deaths in DPR-controlled Donetsk do not include casualties from mass killings in cities under Ukrainian control, but only civilian casualties in separatist/Russian-controlled Donbass as a result of Ukrainian attacks on civilians. The total death toll stands at 13,108. However, the Human Rights Commissioner for Lugansk, Anna Soroka, estimates the death toll in Lugansk at 6,000. This brings the total to 16,000. This figure does not include casualties from mass killings, drone strikes, airstrikes, shelling, etc. in Donetsk (I'm not sure if Soroka included the Ukrainian-controlled LPR in her estimate) when it was under Ukrainian control, and I don't think that includes, at least on the DPR side, the dead found later in mass graves, of which there were many. This means that, if we were to stay on the safe side, a reasonable estimate of the civilian death toll in Donbas would be 17,000, but most estimates point to 20,000 deaths.

[ineed2forgetsotakeme2floridaaa]

This is the most exhausting, sickly, and painful section for me, and it could be a video essay in itself. I've selected several examples of high-ranking Ukrainian politicians and military leaders to illustrate Ukraine's intent to commit genocide. This is by no means an exhaustive overview.

There is of course our current Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine and former Chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine, Lieutenant general Kyrylo Oleksiiovych Budanov of “Don’t continue with that topic. All I will comment on is that we’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.” and openly supporting Nation Europa fame. Who is Nation Europa I wonder? Well it’s difficult to find out now because the Wikipedia page has been taken down, but I managed to dig it up on Internet Archive

Huh, there’s a lot of Ukrainian Armed Forces battalions who operate in Donbass in that member list But belonging to an international alliance of Russophobic Ukrainian nationalist neo-Nazis does not necessarily imply genocidal intent. Take, for example, one of the alliance's founders, Svoboda, one of Ukraine's five leading political parties. Several of their paramilitaries have become part of the Ukrainian army, such as the Sich Battalion, formed in 2014 by Svoboda to fight in Donbass and still fighting in Donbass under the name the 4th Sich Company of the Kyiv Regiment and under the watchful eye of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I am certain they have never said anything that amounted to genocidal intent against the people of Donbass.

Whoops… Well at least she’s never been officially endorsed by the Ukrainian Government!

Oh

Who was Mr. "we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world" replacing as the honourable head of the Ukrainian presidential office? Well that would be Andriy Borysovych Yermak, who while having left the president’s office, remains a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, member of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and Chief of staff of the Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian and Social Affairs. Yermak, during his tenure as the Head of Office for Zelensky, once said, “Russians, these inhumans, have no right to be among civilized citizens of Western countries at all.” and “The Russians will pay for all the victims of the Holodomor and will be held accountable for today’s crimes. This will be a historic moment of reckoning. It is already awaiting the Russian nation.” and “The entire Russian nation will be punished for the evil for which it is responsible. It will not be possible to avoid punishment.” You get the idea, he talks a lot.

There's also Poroshenko's infamous speech, in which he says Ukraine will win the war by depriving the residents of Donbass of pensions, jobs, education support, and safety (our children will go to schools and kindergartens, while their children will live in basements/bomb shelters).

Ukraine’s former Minister of Social Policy Andriy Oleksiyovych Reva said about the people of Donbass: “Everyone who was pro-Ukrainian has left. And those who want to receive two pensions, one here and one here, let them endure. I don't feel sorry for them at all. I feel sorry for those soldiers and officers and their families who were killed there for these scum.”

Oleg Livanchuk, the head of the Krasnogorsk city military-state administration, said of the residents of the Donetsk Region city: "…And the television here is only Russian. That's why the people here are weak-willed. Plus, there's a large percentage of stupid people here… It's a neutral territory between two states, where marginalized people and criminals were exiled. And you can't change genes. A lot is born in the genes. That's your gene pool."

Semen Ihorovych Semenchenko, founder and commander of the 2nd Special Forces Battalion famous for their war crimes of the National Guard "Donbas", as well as former First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on National Security and Defence said in 2019 “In my understanding, Ukraine should have a strategy to depopulate Donbass. But despite the terrifying name, there's nothing genocidal about it… It's necessary to extract all labor resources from the occupied territories.” He was a recipient of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, third class, from the President of Ukraine and received a Makarov pistol from the head of the Security Service of Ukraine

There was also the instances of Ukraine attempting to stop COVID 19 vaccines from entering Donbass in the middle of the Pandemic, and the Ukrainian Government softly calling to an end to funding of the Russian Red Cross because it operates in Russian controlled Donbass, where the Ukrainian Red Cross cannot enter, effectively depriving the Donbass region of the Red Cross all together.

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Hello I'm a Donchane communist, with evil Donchane communist views. You need to hate Ukrainian soldiers more. Yes even the ones who were conscripted

[ineed2forgetsotakeme2floridaaa]

Russophobia is so bad that I don’t think that one day anyone will actually have always been against this

[ineed2forgetsotakeme2floridaaa]

The reason I don't care about the ICJ case against Ukraine for genocide is that I think every respectable Western institution could call a spade a spade, and Westerners would still steadfastly deny genocide in Donbass to hide their deep-seated, inhumane belief that it's a good thing all those Russians are dying.

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Official instances of honoring UPA/Nazism in Ukraine

On 29 January 2020, a formal ceremony, attended by local civil servants and representatives of the church, was organized to bury Mikhail Mulik, former member of the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, in the Avenue of Glory in Ivano-Frankivsk.

(https://galychyna.if.ua/2020/01/28/martsinkiv-poobitsyav-nazvati-vulitsyu-imenem-mihayla-mulika/)

Mulik was also a honorary citizen of Ivano-Frankivsk.

(https://strana.today/news/246875-foto-kak-v-ivano-frankovske-proshchalas-s-umershim-natsistom-iz-divizii-ss.html)

In April 2020, in Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, the Brotherhood of the warriors from the Waffen-SS Galicia Division presented Vasiliy Nakonechniy, a veteran of the division, with an award in a solemn ceremony. Previously, in May 2018, he had been awarded the status of Honourary Citizen of Kalush.

(https://strana.today/news/262422-v-kalushe-nahradili-veterana-divizii-ss-poluchaja-nahradu-tot-zihanul.html)

On 21 June 2020, the Lvov City Council's press service reported that Lvov Mayor Andrey Sadovoy had congratulated Olga Ilkiv, former liaison officer for UPA leader Roman Shukhevich, on her 100th birthday. The notice added the city and regional governments had joined forces to buy a flat in Lvov for Olga Ilkiv in recognition of her services to the state and to mark the 78th anniversary of the UPA founding.

(https://city-adm.lviv.ua/news/society/public-sector/279791-mer-lvova-pryvitav-zviazkovu-romana-shukhevycha-zi-100-littiam)

On 19 August 2020, a memorial plaque in honour of UPA member Yuri Lipa was installed on the building of the district library in the village of Yavorov, Lviv region.

(https://golossokal.com.ua/ru/novyny-kultury/y-misti-iavorovi-vidbylos-vidkrittia-memorialnoi-tablici-na-fasadi-raionnoi-centralnoi-biblioteki-imeni-uriia-lipi.html)

On 16 February 2021, the Lvov oblast council requested President Zelensky to return the title of Hero of Ukraine to Stepan Bandera. The deputies have also decided to declare 2021 the Year of Yevgeniy Konovalets.

(https://m.day.kyiv.ua/ru/news/160221-lvovskiy-oblsovet-trebuet-vernut-bandere-zvanie-geroya-ukrainy-i-obyavil-2021-y-godom)

On 5 March 2021, the deputies of the Ternopol city council supported the initiative of city mayor Sergey Nadal to name the city's stadium after Roman Shukhevych, where the Ukrainian Soccer Cup Final was to be held.

(https://strana.today/news/321233-ternopolskij-stadion-poluchil-imja-romana-shukhevicha.html)

The Lviv oblast council on 16 March 2021, proposed the Ukrainian Government to rename Arena Lvov to Stepan Bandera Arena Lviv.

(https://strana.today/news/323062-arena-lvov-imeni-bandery-chto-hovorjat-o-pereimenovanii-stadiona-v-chest-vozhdja-oun.html)

On 14 October 2022, the 99-year-old Miroslav Simchich, commander of a sotnia in the UPA and war criminal who organized the mass murder of Poles during World War II and took part therein, was given the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the Golden Star by Vladimir Zelensky.

(https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/6992022-44385)

In December 2022, in the State Historical and Cultural Reserve Naguevichi in the Lvov oblast, a nativity scene was installed, with a statue of Stepan Bandera, the leader of the OUN, placed among the traditional biblical characters. (wtf?!)

(https://strana.today/news/419500-vo-lvovskoj-oblasti-v-rozhdestvenskij-vertep-ustanovili-fihury-bajdena-i-bandery-foto.html)

On 21 December 2022, in honour of the 80th anniversary of the UPA, the Ternopol Regional Council decided to erect a monument to Roman Shukhevich.

(https://teren.in.ua/news/u-ternopoli-vstanovlyat-pam-yatnik-romanu-shuhevichu_394446.html)

On 29-30 March 2023, state-level celebrations were held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the ideologist of Ukrainian nationalism Nilokay Mykhnovsky, who formulated the slogan "Ukraine is for Ukrainians!" and called for killing Poles, Russians, Hungarians and others whom he saw as enemies of the Ukrainian people.

(https://uinp.gov.ua/pres-centr/novyny/31-bereznya-vypovnytsya-150-rokiv-ideologu-ukrayinskoyi-nezalezhnosti-mykoli-mihnovskomu-zahody)

On 1 October 2023, in accordance with Vladimir Zelenskiy's decree, one of Ukrainian Armed Forces' battalion was given the name of Yevgeniy Konovalets.

(https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/18886607)

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Ουδέν σχόλιον

[phobic-human]

🇮🇷 Tehran, Iran - A man restores a well-known mural depicting the US flag with bombs and skulls, and the phrase “Down with the USA.”

[her-butchship-holly]

absolutely insane to me that there’s people who hate America so much that they’ll readily support a theocratic fascist dictatorship like Iran. to own the libs or something I guess.

horseshoe theory is real and this is its scion.

[phobic-human]

[commiearabgirll]

Yeah no I will not allow lady who loves imperialism and killing brown people judge my moral or political compass. Like hell I'd do that.

And this is coming from someone who's living in a country directly negatively influenced by Iran and it's government's ideology. I am not at all fond of Iran or most of the militias they support, but because I have a brain I can recognize when I should put my national hostilities aside and support the only country who seriously stood in the face of Israeli and American imperialism, not to mention Iranians also experience the same demonization and racism from western media purely because they dared to be non white non Christian and anti western. There's a sense of connection in having a common enemy.

That being said, kys liberal.

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“In the spring, long before the Russians came, the Ukrainians shelled us. It was audible from the side of Novopavlovka, it's a village adjacent to the city, not far. That is, you can hear mortars, you can hear the launch, and they immediately hit the micro-districts. It was clear that it's the Ukrainians, as the Russians are still too far away. Ukraine usually shelled the city with artillery in the morning, at noon and in the evening with "Grads" and mines fly. When we evacuated ourselves, we waited until they finished shelling. When we left, there was fog, there weren't many drones. Only when we were crossing the highway, one was flying along the highway. We squatted down and it seemed to fly away, didn't notice us. We quickly crossed the highway and made it.

Ukrainian soldiers evicted people from their homes when the Russians approached the city, the Ukrainian Armed Forces started shooting civilians, whoever they met on the street. Well, they were walking from the micro-districts, it turns out, towards the railway along a straight street. They are walking, a person walked past AFU soldiers, and they shot him. If he didn't die immediately, they gave him a control shot to the head. Just any person walking by.

Our neighbor, Sasha, was shot by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in October. He went for water, and when he was walking back, they were coming from below. He had already approached his house, right on the corner of the house. My father was standing on the street in the yard, and we heard shots, well, a burst. Then, when they had passed, we looked out, father looked out, and Sasha was lying on the asphalt dead. Then another neighbour later said that she also heard first a bullet to his torso, then he groaned, fell, but was still alive. And they approached, gave him control shots to the head. On Pushkin Street. On December 18th he would have been 45.

In the Yuzhny Micro-district, three men and two women were shot. And one man was also crossing the highway, wanted to cross from the micro-district to the private sector. They called him over, they had a sort of checkpoint there, they called him over, and then they shot him, and there was a pond nearby – they threw him there. That was sometime either at the end of September or the beginning of October.

In the church, the Mikhailovsky Church in the center of the city, the priest stayed there, people lived in the basement. The Ukrainian Armed Forces also fired several bullets at him, but he survived.

Another one, when the stores closed down, he still went to Grishina, there was an opportunity if you drove through. He bought cigarettes there and then sold them in the city. Well, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, they were stationed there, they had checkpoints to let him through. They took money from him, part of the proceeds. And the last time he went, he didn't give them money, and then they found him at his home, they led him into the basement, first they shot his knees, cut off his ears, well, and beat him with rifle butts or I don't know what. And then a few days later the neighbors went into the basement, and he's sitting on a chair, already dead, well, starting to decompose. He lived with his wife. No one knows anything about his wife. But she disappeared. Her corpse is not in the house. Neither in the basement, nor in the house. And where she is, no one knows. His name was Dima.

On Dinos, that's beyond the railway, there's a factory and a private sector near that factory. A man kept pigeons, a dovecote. He went out to feed them, he was also shot, a Ukrainian sniper was sitting there.

A year ago we lived in another district, closer to the Shevchenko settlement. And there, it turns out, our street was the last one, and beyond were fields, and through them a road to the settlement. On one side of the street there were private houses, on the other side dachas. And several women from the micro-districts moved to their dachas before winter, because there was nothing to heat the apartments with. There they had small houses with stoves. They moved there. Then Ukrainian soldiers came, said, we have an order to wrap these dachas with barbed wire. They were told that people live there, plus there was a well with drinking water, other people went there for water. They said, we don't know anything, we have orders. As a result, they wrapped them in that wire, barbed wire, in two rows. At first, other people brought them food, threw it over the wire. That is, it turns out, they just, you see, surrounded several dachas with barbed wire without exits, without anything. Without exits, knowing that people live there.

Then their Ukrainian tanks drove there, those APCs, they also drove without headlights, and as a result, they themselves successfully caught and pulled this wire. And then it was all along the road.

A man and a woman went for evacuation from the private sector. They needed to get to the micro-district, to the church on Lazurny. They went with their belongings, with one bicycle.

They wanted to cross the highway, and a Ukrainian drone hit the man. Literally within five minutes, three or four more Ukrainian drones flew in. The man's leg was torn off and his cheek. They pulled him away, what happened to him in the end, I don't know. The woman ran along with him, and then a second drone flew into their bicycle. First the man, they dropped the bike with his belongings, and the second drone flew into those things. Beginning of December.

At the end of summer there was another case. Two Ukrainian soldiers, dead drunk, were lying near a swamp in the reeds. Two women were walking past them, and the Ukrainians started poking their automatic rifles at them and saying like, “You don't love us, you're waiting for Russia.” Then their commander ran up and started telling these women and the people who had gathered there, “God forbid, we see a video somewhere that you posted somewhere that soldiers are lying drunk, we'll shoot you all.” Another Ukrainian commander started threatening, “Don’t you dare sell alcohol to soldiers in stores.” But you can also understand the saleswomen, because a Ukrainian soldier comes in with an automatic rifle, you say something wrong to him, don't sell, he'll shoot you. Such cases were even before the start of the SVO (Special Military Operation), back during the ATO (Anti-Terrorist Operation). In the private sector there was a small store. A mother worked there, and her pregnant daughter. Ukrainian soldiers came, wanted to buy alcohol. They didn't sell it to them, and the soldiers shot the woman and her pregnant daughter. That was back in 2015.

There was also one entrepreneur in our city. He owned a pig farm, a pizzeria, and a restaurant with a store. Well, the pizzeria, restaurant, and store were in the same building. He fed those ATO soldiers there in his restaurant. And then they had some kind of disagreement, and they burned down his restaurant. Moreover, they burned it twice. The first time, then he rebuilt it, and they burned it a second time. And then on his farm later they shot at him. For Ukraine, we are all non-humans. Well, that's the first reason. And secondly, it seems to me, they are also angry because they can't compete with the Russians. That is, they can't take back anything, nor conquer anything, nor hold anything. And they take out their anger on people."

— Maxim Alexandrovich Chernyshov from the city of Krasnoarmeysk in “The Foundation for the Study of Democracy: Atrocities and War Crimes of the Kyiv Regime in the City of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and the Krasnoarmeysk District”

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“There was very heavy looting by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Furniture and appliances were taken, gates were smashed, doors in houses were broken in, garages were broken into. Things were taken away to be sent via ‘Nova Poshta’ or simply removed.

Then they moved into basements and drove civilians out of them. They locked the apartment entrances, just shut them and that was it.

Recently there were a lot of drones; the autumn was very difficult. Drones, mortar shelling from the Ukrainian side. A lot of people died. Many from drones. In almost every yard we buried people. We buried four, personally, I did.

Drones dropped explosives on houses. Near the well, a man was drawing water, he was killed instantly. They dropped it from a drone; he was drawing water, and they dropped it, he died on the spot.

Then people were sitting in the yard under a shelter, eating. They dropped some kind of bomb. Two men died, Valera and Tolik.

A woman was killed on November 6. A bomb was dropped from a drone onto the house. She died 10 minutes later.”

— Irina Aleksandrovna Rodak from the city of Krasnoarmeysk in “The Foundation for the Study of Democracy: Atrocities and War Crimes of the Kyiv Regime in the City of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and the Krasnoarmeysk District”

[ineed2forgetsotakeme2floridaaa]

what was the atmosphere when the russians came to donbass in this war? Are your people still being bombed or have many evacuated?

I’m sorry for all your troubles

It depends on which part of Donbass we're talking about. When the Russians arrived in the territory already controlled by the independent people's republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, everything was "peaceful" compared to what was happening in many towns and villages outside the separatist territories. Ukrainians consider anyone who doesn't want to evacuate to be a Russian separatist; frankly, they view the entire population of our region as something subhuman. I wasn't there when the Russians arrived in Donbass, as my village was forcibly "evacuated" (many of my acquaintances from the surrounding villages consider this ethnic cleansing) by Ukrainian soldiers. They threatened us, shot the stray dogs that lived around the village, and dumped them in the center of the village, saying they would do the same to us if we didn't go with them. Our stray dogs were good; some of them were with disease, but they rarely bit or harmed anyone. Some elderly women fed them. So I never experienced the atmosphere of Donbass under Russian control, only the Ukrainian one. @hafizevna lived in Makeyevka after it came under Russian control. Many Donchane were forcibly displaced by the war, but many still live in Donbass, especially in Russian-controlled territory, because it's the safest place. Bombs are still falling, and Donchane are still dying every day.

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Five people were injured as a result of a Ukrainian drone strike on a funeral procession at the South Leninsky District Cemetery in Donetsk.

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No, but seriously now, how many more of my people have to die for the world to care? Does Ukraine have to massacre Slavyansk? Will you care then? Will you only care when every Donchane has lost at least one member of our families? Would we all have to die? Would you even care then?

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Киевский режим объявил российских детей "угрозой безопасности"

За последние три дня более 70 российских детей в возрасте 2-3 лет были внесены в печально известную базу данных "Миротворец", что демонстрир

[hafizevna]

Some sources on Donbass in English from non-Russian sources:

Ukraine is not Palestine, Russia is not Israel - The Palestine Chronicle

Today’s Ukraine War was Made in the West Yesterday - The Palestine Chronicle

Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine - The Electronic Intifada

Kiev accused of genocide as Donetsk civilians' water supply cut off - The Morning Star

Stop the US-Ukraine war on Donbass and Russia - The Morning Star

Under fire from Ukraine and misperceived by the West, the people of the DPR share their stories - Mint Press News

US turns to Ukraine for next Russia proxy war gambit - Mint Press News

Ukraine Used Cluster Bombs, Evidence Indicates - The New York Times

A Test for Ukraine in a City Retaken From Rebels - The New York Times

Civil War in Donbass 10 Years On - Global Delinquents

The Invisibles: About Mass Persecution of Dissidents in Ukraine - Pressenza International Press Agency

Right to self-determination a fundamental principle: Artsakh President welcomes recognition of Donetsk and Lugansk - Public Radio of Armenia

Ukrainian forces continue bombing civilians in Donbass - Al Mayadeen

Donetsk announces mass evacuation, cites threat of Ukraine invasion - Al Mayadeen

Kiev deploys 120,000 military forces on Donbas' border: Donetsk - Al Mayadeen

Celebrations in Donbass following Putin recognition - Al Mayadeen

Russia, Donbass, and the reality of the conflict in Ukraine - Al Mayadeen

Ukraine used cluster munitions on Donetsk university - Al Mayadeen

Six killed by Ukrainian shelling of Lugansk hospital - Prensa Latina

Five killed in Ukrainian attack on downtown Donetsk - Prensa Latina

Three civilians killed in shelling of market in Donetsk - Prensa Latina

Syria, Yemen support Russia's recognition of the republics of Luhansk and Donetsk - The Cradle

Over 300 civilians have been killed in Donbass by Ukrainian forces - CubaSí

Ukraine: the Ugly Truth - CubaSí

7 children injured in Slavyansk as Ukrainian army shells residential area - CubaSí

Civilians killed as Donetsk hit by ballistic missile, the DPR says - CubaSí

Ukrainian forces attacked a hospital area in Donetsk - CubaSí

At least 11 killed, 40 injured in shelling in Donetsk, E. Ukraine, school hit - CubaSí

Two Civilians Died in Kiev’s Attack on Lugansk - Al Manar TV

Five Civilians Killed, 12 Wounded in DPR - Al Manar TV

Dozens Killed, Injured as Ukrainian Troops Shell Prison in Donbass - Al Manar TV

Yes, Ukraine Started the War - ScheerPost

List of ‘kidnapped’ Ukrainian children for sale? No, a regional database of Lugansk orphans - STRUGGLE LA LUCHA

From the Tops Market massacre to Ukraine’s war crimes in Donbass - STRUGGLE LA LUCHA

Voices from Donbass speak to U.S. anti-war movement - The Monthly Review

Larissa, three months of torture in the SBU dungeons in Kharkov - The Monthly Review

Faina Savenkova – “I wanted Americans to know the truth” - The Monthly Review

The Donbass Diaries Part II: The Azov Battalions – ordinary Fascism - The Monthly Review

Ukraine timeline tells the tale - The Monthly Review

Fact Finding Mission to Donbass - Black Agenda Report

Gaza to Donbass: How Israel and Ukraine Built a Fascist, Transnational War Machine - Black Agenda Report

‘God Will Sort Them Out’: Ukrainians of Donbass Beg NATO to End War - Toward Freedom

Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces are Defending their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism - Covert Action Magazine

Collected in collaboration with Sibaj previously of the handle @Tatarstani and Kakhvise of the handle @kakhvisa

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For the sake of context: a quarter of Sibaj’s family resides within the borders of the Donetsk People’s Republic. She also lived for an extended period in the Donetsk Oblast prior to the outbreak of the Civil War and the Euromaidan revolution, and briefly returned there in 2019. Kakhvise has participated in three separate humanitarian aid missions to the Lugansk People’s Republic, in addition to working with Muslim internally displaced persons from Donbass. I myself am from the Donetsk People’s Republic. None of us are “Tankie Westerners” projecting ideological fantasies onto this conflict, nor are we Russian ethno-nationalists seeking to expand borders or justify violence against Ukrainians. In fact, none of us have Russian heritage at all.

Apologies if any heavy hitters were passed by, all three of us are Russian citizens, we do not regularly interact with Western Media!

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Pacification of Galician villages by the Polish police and army in 1930. Only photo I found showing something of it.