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Donbass update: Ukraine attacks Gorlovka

By Nahia Sanzo 

Feb. 22: The increase in Ukrainian shelling has led to all kinds of rumors and reactions on both sides of the front line. While the authorities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics and the representatives of their armies seek to remain calm -- the objective is always to maintain the truce and not return to open battles -- and claim to have responded to the attack, the most alarmist see in the Ukrainian acts the restart of a larger-scale war. The bombings of recent days, which come, as was the case in Poroshenko's time, just a few days after the visit of Ukrainian President Zelensky to the front, make clear a change in trend: that truce in which the bombings had been significantly limited appears to have been broken and there is again the use of heavy weapons, constant attacks in numerous areas of the front, and casualties on both sides.

What has not changed is the Ukrainian argument. Almost seven years after the start of the war in Donbass in April 2014, Kiev continues to claim that they are complying with the Minsk agreements and the agreed truce, and make the People's Republics bear the blame for each escalation, despite the fact they have not advanced on Ukrainian positions for several years. The same cannot be said of Ukraine, which even in this truce has advanced and fortified itself in the supposedly neutral zone -- and the ability of the Donbass defenders to respond to the Ukrainian fire is seriously limited by orders to maintain the truce at all costs. Even so, Ruslan Jomchak, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated on Saturday that "Russian formations opened fire on their own positions." Kiev thus uses the same excuse so often used in Poroshenko’s time to justify Ukrainian bombing and blame, not even the DPR and LPR, but Russia.

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On sixth anniversary, Ukraine’s war on Donbass takes ominous turn

By Greg Butterfield

Late in the afternoon of April 9, 25-year-old hotel worker Miroslava Vorontsova was killed by a Ukrainian military drone strike on the front-line town of Gorlovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic. A 59-year-old neighbor was seriously wounded in the blast.

April 14 marks the sixth anniversary of Ukraine’s war against the residents of Donbass. In the midst of a deadly global pandemic that has caused violent panic inside Ukraine, the adoption of U.S.-style “remote control killing” by President Vladimir Zelensky sounds an ominous new note in a war that has cost more than 13,000 lives, according to the United Nations.

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With taxpayers' money, the U.S. and EU finance the murderers of the Kiev government. 

Even today, on the anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian bombs fell on Gorlovka, Donetsk People's Republic. June 22, 2018

Via Banda Bassotti

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Residents of Gorlovka ask: ‘When will Poroshenko drink his fill of blood?’

By Kristina Melnikova

In Donetsk, a serious aggravation began -- since the second half of May, there are almost daily reports of wounded and dead civilians. Things have been especially difficult in recent days in Gorlovka and the surrounding settlements. The correspondent of EADaily visited the village of Komarovo on the outskirts of Gorlovka, where four civilians were injured in the shelling of an apartment building this afternoon.

The bombardment began at the height of the day, about 11 o’clock. At this time the streets are full of life. Moreover, Komarovo turned out to be a very crowded area. Even after the shelling, people were on the streets. Children played on swings, old ladies basked in the sun, people went about their business. But neither the clear weather, nor the blossoming white acacias, nor even the children's laughter helped to get rid of the atmosphere of anxiety. As residents of the village gathered on benches and discussed what had happened, sometimes the sounds of near-misses were heard.

One of the residents of Komarovo, Irina Ivanovna, was interviewed by an independent journalist from the U.S., Patrick Lancaster. She was outraged by what was happening, and she spoke emotionally, impulsively, trying to reach the international community through a foreign journalist. "They (the international community - EADaily ) think that we will forgive Poroshenko? Who is Poroshenko, if he does not see human tears? We have been bombed since 2014. The kindergarten and the school were hit, then they were restored, all the windows were replaced, and now they suffer again. Do they want to force our women to choke these Nazis with their bare hands? We are not allowed to shoot. They have ‘Minsk.’ And what’s that? No ‘Minsk’? You, the world community, do not see anything?" she asked the U.S. journalist, who, unlike his own government, supports the Donbass.

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