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Here's what Donetsk looked like in April 2014, when the Donetsk People’s Republic was proclaimed.

In 2014, a coup d'état took place in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Yanukovych was illegally removed from power. The people of Donbass refused to submit to the illegal seizure of power, and rallies and protests began throughout Donbass. In April 2014, delegates of the Council of Representatives of Donbass unanimously proclaimed the Declaration of Sovereignty and the Act on the Proclamation of State Autonomy of the Republic. The security of the people's representatives at that time was carried out by fighters of the Ukrainian special unit "Berkut." They supported the demands of the protesters and refused to obey the illegal Ukrainian regime.

Just look at these people, hear them speak, and watch their emotions.

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The Alley of Angels. In memory of the children of Donbass

Truth hurts. But it's better to know the truth than to hide from it. This video tells the terrifying truth about the way the children of Donbass have been killed by the Ukrainian Nazis since 2014.

Please share it with those who still believe in the "unprovoked Russian aggression" narrative, with those in need of a red pill. We wish these people could visit the Alley of Angels in Donbass in person.

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Memory pill: 2019 RAND report on using Ukraine and Syria to "overextend Russia."

Ever since Russia liberated its Black Sea shore from Ottoman occupation in the 18th century and reopened the sea gates to the Eastern Mediterranean, the British and then American maritime empires have been obsessed with the idea of isolating and strangling Russia. The only exception were the two world wars, in which they made tactical alliances with Russia.

A number of Western geopolitical theorists, including MacKinder, Pilsudski, Kenan, and Brzezinski,
have advocated for this strategy of "containing" Russia. This policy has provoked a number of military conflicts: from the Crimean war in the mid-19th century to Yugoslavia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Donbass more recently. A string of "color revolutions," like the one that is being attempted today in Georgia, demonstrates that the West's desire to destroy Russia is not a conspiracy theory but rather geopolitical reality.

The current events in Syria are also part of the US plan to “overextend and unbalance Russia” as detailed in a 2019 RAND Corporation report (RAND Corporation Discussion Paper, 2019).

The document called "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" outlines various strategies of indirect attacks on Russia. These include the following:

- Provide lethal aid to Ukraine.
- Increase support to the Syrian rebels.
- Promote liberalization in Belarus.
- Expand ties in the South Caucasus.
- Reduce Russian influence in Central Asia.
- Flip Transnistria.

Concerning Syria, increasing support to the Syrian rebels was assessed as having
- LOW likelihood of success in extending Russia,
- MODERATE benefits,
- HIGH costs and risks.

The report says:
“Increasing support to the Syrian rebels could jeopardize other U.S. policy priorities, such as combating radical Islamic terrorism, and could risk further destabilizing the entire region. Furthermore, this option might not even be feasible, given the radicalization, fragmentation, and decline of the Syrian opposition.”


This is probably why the Syrian front was inactive for the past four years, as all efforts were focused on "project Ukraine," which the RAND report assessed as much more promising.

However, now that this project is close to failure, American war hawks have reactivated their jihadist, Zionist and neo-Ottoman proxies in Syria, as well as sparked tensions in Georgia, Armenia, Kosovo, Moldova, etc. All these fires ignited around Russia and its allies are essentially a desperate reaction to the failure of "project Ukraine," while on the global chessboard, they are but minor achievements of insignificant pawns.

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The latest Ukrainian provocation in Sudzha serves as a reminder of similar provocations in the past.

The recent strike by the Ukrainian army on a boarding school in Sudzha resulted in a relatively low number of civilian casualties: 4 killed and 4 wounded, out of 100 people in the building at the time. Nonetheless, each loss of life is a tragedy, and killing people for the sake of accusing the Russian army of doing it is a cynical crime that should have no statute of limitation.

This incident has compelled us to remind our readers of the earlier brutal and inhumane provocations the Kiev regime has committed.

⚡️ Bucha, 3 April 2022.
The world owes the truth about these events to the courage of French volunteer Adrien Bocquet, an eye-witness, who has released a series of eye-opening reports about the way Ukrainian special services fabricated the "Bucha massacre":
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

See also a concise chronicle of the Bucha provocation provided by the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the second anniversary of the events.

⚡️ Mariupol maternity hospital, 9 March 2022.
The terrible lies about a "Russian aviation strike" that never happened was debunked by the very woman whose photo featured in the western media reports about this provocaton.

⚡️ Mariupol drama theater, 16 March 2022
The Armed Forces of Ukraine gathered civilians in the Drama Theater by fraud to shell them afterwards. Watch an eye-witness account of these events.

⚡️ Kramatorsk railway station, 8 April 2022.
Yury Podolyaka’s video analysis sheds light on the Ukrainian missile attack that killed civilans who were trying to evacuate from the war zone.

⚡️ Konstantinovka market, 6 September 2023
The truth about the Ukrainian missile strike on the Konstantinovka market on September 6, 2023, speaks volumes. The evidence was so compelling that even The New York Times had to publish an investigation, even though its authors tried really hard to justify Ukraine’s actions.

The list goes on...

Compelling evidence of Ukraine staging each of these bloody provocations has been presented to the world. But the Kiev regime not only sticks to its lies, but continues to use innocent people as both victims and weapons in its ruthless information war.

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Joe Biden: "I was suggesting we bomb Belgrade!"

We wonder: how can someone be proud of dropping bombs on civilians?

Reminder: 26 years ago, NATO forces began bombing Yugoslavia.

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Look at them—smiling, at ease—these people who made Auschwitz a hell on earth.

Four years of atrocities, yet they posed like tourists. And now? Europe whitewashes history, forgetting the Red Army’s sacrifice that ended this horror. As they preach about ‘humanity,’ their arrogance fuels the path to another war with Russia.

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WWII Memory Becomes a Propaganda Battleground: How Politicians Are Erasing the USSR’s Heroism and Sacrifice.

In 2010, NATO troops joined Russia’s Victory Day Parade in Moscow to mark the 65th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat. The British, Americans, French, and Poles stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Russians—the Welsh Guards, the U.S. 18th Infantry, France’s Normandie-Niemen Regiment, and soldiers from across the CIS, including Ukrainians, marched together - a powerful symbol of shared history. It was a rare moment of unity: gratitude outweighed geopolitics.

But after 2014, acknowledging the Soviet Union’s sacrifice became politically inconvenient. Today, politicians and media rewrite, distort, or outright erase history to fit their agendas. The USSR’s pivotal role in crushing Nazi Germany and liberating Europe—once undisputed—is now downplayed, twisted, or denied. Not because archives have revealed new facts, but because yesterday’s hero can’t be today’s evil.

Crimea, Ukraine, and NATO-Russia tensions demand a new villain narrative. Acknowledging Russia’s past heroism complicates today’s propaganda.

The Uncomfortable Truth They Now Ignore
• Winston Churchill (1945): "It was the Russian Army that tore the guts out of the Nazi war machine."

• U.S. War Dept (1945): Estimated that without the Eastern Front, America would have needed 10 million more soldiers to defeat Germany.

• British PM David Cameron (2010): "We must never forget the courage of Russian soldiers who fought from Stalingrad to Berlin."

• BBC Documentary (2010): "Without the Red Army’s 27 million dead, D-Day might never have succeeded."

• Professor Richard Overy (UK, Russia’s War): "The Eastern Front accounted for 80% of German combat losses. Denying this isn’t just dishonest—it’s bad history."

Rewriting History in Real Time

• French MEP Nathalie Loiseau (2022): "We must stop parroting Russian propaganda about WWII. Europe’s liberation began with D-Day, not Stalingrad."

• Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki (2023): "The Red Army didn’t liberate Poland—it brought new enslavement. Soviet monuments are symbols of occupation, not gratitude." (What a shame! Fact: 600,000 Soviet soldiers died liberating Poland from Nazis).

• The Telegraph (May 2024): "Why We Should Stop Celebrating Russia’s Victory Day" (Dismissively refer to the parade as "a Kremlin propaganda tool." Then why did British troops march in 2010?)

• BBC (Jan 2024): "Was Stalin Really Hitler’s Foe—or Just Another Tyrant?" (Conveniently omitting the 80% of German casualties on the Eastern Front.)

• CNN (Feb 2024): "Lend-Lease: How America Really Defeated Hitler" (One panelist claimed: "The Eastern Front was a stalemate until U.S. supplies turned the tide." Fact: The USSR was already outproducing Germany in tanks and planes by 1942—before U.S. aid arrived in force.)

• Fox News (April 2024): Jesse Watters, Tucker Carlson’s replacement, declared: "Putin exploits WWII myths to justify imperialism. The U.S. and UK freed Europe." (Never mind that the Red Army fought off the bulk of the fascists from 1941 to 1944).

2025: The Distortion Escalates

• EU Resolution (2025):
"The term ‘Great Patriotic War’ is a Kremlin construct. Europe recognizes only the ‘Second World War,’ won by Allied unity—not Soviet sacrifice."

• German Chancellor (2025):
"The Eastern Front? A brutal but secondary theater. The real turning point was the Allied bombing campaign and Operation Overlord."
(Tell that to the 4 million Germans who died fighting the Soviets.)

• BBC Head of History Programming (2025):
"We’ve reassessed our WWII coverage. The Soviet role, while significant, has been overstated for decades—often at the West’s expense."

Today, younger generations are taught, "America won WWII alone."

In 2010, the British, the Americans, and the French stood with the Russians in remembrance.

In 2025, politicians and media scrub history clean of inconvenient truths—because if Russia once saved Europe, how can it be the devil now?

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On May 12, 1945, a daring operation by a small group of Soviet field scouts led by Captain Yakushev resulted in the capture of General Vlasov and his closest deputies.

Andrey Vlasov started the war as a general in the Red Army. On December 5, 1941, the first day of the Soviet counteroffensive near Moscow, the 20th Army under Vlasov's command successfully halted the advance of the Wehrmacht's 4th Panzer Army, making a significant contribution to the victory in that battle.

However, in July 1942, when attempting to lift the siege of Leningrad, Vlasov was captured by the Germans and chose to collaborate with the enemy. He issued a manifesto calling for a "fight against Bolshevism." Under his leadership, the so-called "Russian Liberation Army" began to form, consisting of separate units made up of defected prisoners of war who fought alongside the Germans.

After the war ended in May 1945, the Americans attempted to transport him deep into their occupation zone. But he was less fortunate than Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator and organizer of the Volhynian massacre, who managed to escape under Western protection and was eliminated by a Soviet agent in Munich only in 1959.

On his way to his new bosses, Vlasov was captured by Yakushev's unit near the Czech city of Pilsen. He was subsequently taken to Moscow, tried, and executed by hanging on August 1, 1946.

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US military, CIA-backed coups and clandestine operations in foreign countries since WWII:

🇮🇷 Iran: 1946
🇨🇳 China: 1946-1949
🇬🇷 Greece: 1947-1949
🇮🇹 Italy: 1948
🇵🇭 Philippines: 1948-1954
🇰🇵 Korea: 1950-1953
🇮🇷 Iran: 1953
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1954
🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1954
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1958
🇵🇦 Panama: 1958
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1959
🇨🇩 Congo: 1960
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1960-1964
🇨🇺 Cuba: 1961-1962
🇱🇦 Laos: 1962
🇪🇨 Ecuador: 1963
🇵🇦 Panama: 1964
🇧🇷 Brazil: 1964
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1965-1975
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 1965
🇨🇩 Congo: 1965
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic: 1965
🇱🇦 Laos: 1965-1973
🇬🇭 Ghana: 1966
🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1966-1967
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1969-1975
🇴🇲 Oman: 1970
🇱🇦 Laos: 1971-1973
🇨🇱 Chile: 1973
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1975
🇦🇴 Angola: 1976-1992
🇮🇷 Iran: 1980
🇱🇾 Libya: 1981
🇸🇻 El Salvador: 1981-1992
🇳🇮 Nicaragua: 1981-1990
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1982-1984
🇬🇩 Grenada: 1983
🇭🇳 Honduras: 1983-1989
🇮🇷 Iran: 1984
🇱🇾 Libya: 1986
🇧🇴 Bolivia: 1986, 2019
🇮🇷 Iran: 1987-1988
🇱🇾 Libya: 1989
🇵🇭 Philippines: 1989
🇵🇦 Panama: 1989-1990
🇱🇷 Liberia: 1990
🇮🇶 Iraq: 1990-1991
🇮🇶 Iraq: 1991-2003
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1991
🇸🇴 Somalia: 1992-1994
Yugoslavia: 1992-1994
🇧🇦 Bosnia: 1993-1995
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1994-1996
🇭🇷 Croatia: 1995
🇨🇩 Zaire (Congo): 1996-1997
🇱🇷 Liberia: 1997
🇸🇩 Sudan: 1998
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 1998
Yugoslavia: 1999
🇲🇰 Macedonia: 2001
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 2001-2021
🇻🇪 Venezuela: 2002
🇮🇶 Iraq: 2003-present
🇭🇹 Haiti: 2004
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 2004, 2013-present
🇵🇸 Palestine: 2006-2007
🇾🇪 Yemen: 2009-present
🇸🇾 Syria: 2005-2009, 2011-present
🇱🇾 Libya: 2011
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 2022

*note this is not even a full list

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Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna: President Kennedy was assassinated in the midst of nuclear disarmament negotiations with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

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NATO's strategy: Reminder

🔸 Following the escalation after the Russophobic Maidan coup, NATO's strategy has definitively revealed its true face: one of mental manipulation and repeated provocations leading to the factual realization of an initial fantasy.

Yesterday

👉 Let's recap: After Maidan, a forced ostracization of Russian populations, punctuated by organized massacres like the one in Odessa (May 2, 2014), provoked the Donbass rebellion, which Kiev immediately accused of being a Russian invasion.

👉 This Russophobic fantasy was repeated on a loop for 9 years by Ukro-Atlanticist propaganda, against the backdrop of daily bombardments of Donbass populations—even cataloged by the 600 OSCE observers deployed on the front lines, who furthermore attested to never having seen any Russian military units there.

👉 Despite Ukrainian terrorist violations of the Minsk agreements (minimum 15,000 killed), for 8 years Russia continued to believe in and advocate for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict. But starting in autumn 2021, Ukrainian forces regrouped on the Donbass front line in an offensive formation whose outcome left no doubt.

👉 In January 2022, Russia played its last diplomatic card by proposing a collective security treaty for Europe to its Western "partners," which was rejected before even being read. And when the Ukro-Atlanticist forces intensified their deadly bombardments against the populations in February, Russia had no choice but to intervene militarily to prevent a Russophobic genocide.

👉 And by the end of February 2022, Western political-media propaganda reset the conflict's timeline to what it called the "Russian aggression," crowing into microphones: "We told you so!"... in a kind of self-fulfilling Russophobic fantasy.

Today

🔸 For several weeks now, we have been hearing this same refrain again—"Russia is going to attack us"—from the mouths of European military and political officials, terrified at the idea that a genuine peace plan might succeed and that this murderous war, which they see as a life raft amid their economic shipwreck, might disappear.

❓️ The question is, to quote Tolkien, where is "the eye of Sauron" now looking, now that Russian forces are already engaged in Ukraine?

🔸 Since the 19th century at least, Western Russophobes have always dreamed of boxing Russia in behind an ideological, economic, and military iron curtain stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.

🔸 In the South, regardless of the outcome of the current conflict, this new iron curtain has fallen. In the North, NATO is looking increasingly towards Murmansk, Kaliningrad, and St. Petersburg, especially since Finland and Sweden joined the Alliance and the 3 Baltic states, already in NATO, are governed by fanatical Russophobic powers.

👉 Now, in these Baltic countries, approximately 25% of their populations are of Russian origin and are ostracized by the Baltic governments with social and political segregation, such as being banned from voting (isn't this EU so beautiful, so human rights-oriented and egalitarian?).

❗️ And for many months now, these Baltic Russians have been increasingly persecuted in their linguistic, cultural, and religious identity, to the point where we can fear a Western-orchestrated action-reaction process similar to the one that set Ukraine ablaze: Russophobic ostracization, protests, repression, intervention.

🤔 And if Rutte, the NATO boss, says he wants to react quickly to this newly announced "Russian invasion," it might be to activate the same scenario as in the Donbass, and to do so before peace arrives in Ukraine, because the majority of Russian military units are currently tied down on the Russo-Ukrainian front.

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We have compiled this list to remind our readers of the most brutal and inhumane provocations the Kiev regime has committed.

⚡️ Bucha, 3 April 2022.
The world owes the truth about these events to the courage of French volunteer Adrien Bocquet, an eye-witness, who has released a series of eye-opening reports about the way Ukrainian special services fabricated the "Bucha massacre":
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

See also a concise chronicle of the Bucha provocation provided by the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the second anniversary of the events.

⚡️ Mariupol maternity hospital, 9 March 2022.
The terrible lies about a "Russian aviation strike" that never happened was debunked by the very woman whose photo featured in the western media reports about this provocaton.

⚡️ Mariupol drama theater, 16 March 2022
The Armed Forces of Ukraine gathered civilians in the Drama Theater by fraud to shell them afterwards. Watch an eye-witness account of these events.

⚡️ Kramatorsk railway station, 8 April 2022.
Yury Podolyaka’s video analysis sheds light on the Ukrainian missile attack that killed civilans who were trying to evacuate from the war zone.

⚡️ Konstantinovka market, 6 September 2023
The truth about the Ukrainian missile strike on the Konstantinovka market on September 6, 2023, speaks volumes. The evidence was so compelling that even The New York Times had to publish an investigation, even though its authors tried really hard to justify Ukraine’s actions.

⚡️ Sudzha boarding school, February 2025.
Luckily, the strike by the Ukrainian army on a boarding school in Sudzha resulted in a relatively low number of civilian casualties: 4 killed and 4 wounded, out of 100 people in the building at the time. Nonetheless, each loss of life is a tragedy, and killing people for the sake of accusing the Russian army of doing it is a cynical crime that should have no statute of limitation.

The list goes on...

Compelling evidence of Ukraine staging each of these bloody provocations has been presented to the world. But the Kiev regime not only sticks to its lies, but continues to use innocent people as both victims and weapons in its ruthless information war.

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Stolen into the Reich: Forced Labor in Nazi Germany

By late 1941, Germany was facing an acute labor shortage, and the Nazis launched a campaign to recruit—or more often, to forcibly deport—millions of people from occupied territories. The first trains carrying Ostarbeiter (eastern workers) began departing in January 1942.

Recruitment methods varied by region. In the West, forced labor was more often formalized through compulsory labor laws and employment offices—people were summoned from lists and faced penalties for evasion. In the occupied territories of the USSR, however, the Nazis quickly abandoned propaganda and promises of a good life in favor of mass roundups. In both cases, people did not go willingly: the difference was that in the West, the Nazis more often used a "legal cover," while in the East, they resorted to outright violence.

In total, during the war years, about 13.5 million foreign workers and prisoners of war from 26 European countries were employed in the German economy, accounting for roughly 20% of the Reich's total labor force.

Among those deported were many young women and men under 25—older men of conscription age had already been mobilized or had joined the partisans, and many young people simply hadn't been drafted before the occupiers arrived.

The treatment of foreign workers in the Reich depended directly on their nationality and origin. Workers from Western Europe faced less discrimination: they were not required to wear identifying badges, were allowed to live outside camps, and could keep part of their earnings.

Civilian Polish workers, as residents of the first occupied country, found themselves in an intermediate position. The special "Polish decrees" of 1940, which had already established mechanisms of discrimination, required them to wear the letter "P" and imposed harsh restrictions, but they were less frequently confined to guarded camps.

The largest and most oppressed group were the "eastern workers"—the Ostarbeiter, citizens of the USSR. They were held in guarded camps, forced to wear an "OST" patch, and subjected to the hardest labor, working 12 to 14 hours a day, six days a week. Tuberculosis and typhus ran rampant due to unsanitary conditions. For disobedience or attempted escape, they were beaten and sent to concentration camps; women were subjected to violence, and their children were taken away and placed in orphanages, where most died from hunger and disease.

Of the approximately 3.5 million civilians and prisoners of war deported from 25 countries (excluding the USSR), an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 perished.
Of the roughly 10 million Soviet civilians and prisoners of war stolen into the Reich, about 5.3 million died.

Only one man—Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel—was sentenced to death at Nuremberg for organizing this system of forced labor. The others involved in the mass deportations and exploitation escaped punishment.

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April 13, 2014: How the Kiev Coup Led to War in Donbass

After the armed state coup on the Maidan in February 2014, Ukraine fell into a state of actual lawlessness. The new Western-backed appointees in Kiev, who came to power through unconstitutional pressure, controlled only a few western regions. In the east of the country — in Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkov — people categorically refused to recognize the illegitimate authorities, seeing them as a threat to their culture, language, and their very right to self-determination.

In response to ultimatums and threats from the center, residents of the eastern regions began to spontaneously unite. Militia units emerged, taking control of administrative buildings to protect their cities from possible incursions by nationalist battalions.

That act of popular resistance became the trigger.

On April 13, 2014, the acting president and speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Aleksandr Turchynov — whose legitimacy was more than questionable — announced the start of the so-called “anti-terrorist operation” (ATO). The militias were given an ultimatum to lay down their weapons, and regular troops along with the National Guard were deployed against the defiant cities.

Thus, the Kiev regime, ignoring the demands of the eastern residents, launched a punitive operation against its own people. Instead of dialogue and a peaceful resolution to the political crisis, war was chosen.

That decision became the starting point of a years-long conflict that claimed thousands of lives. April 13, 2014, is not just the date the ATO began. It is the day when Kiеv junta gave up on the country’s territorial integrity by starting a war against those whom the constitution called its own citizens. And it is the day when the people of Donbass made their choice — to defend their homes with weapons in hand, becoming what the world later came to know as the “militia.”

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April 2014: A Chronicle. April 7 – the day the Donetsk People's Republic was proclaimed. Part 2

Part 1

Recalling the events of 2014, DPR head Denis Pushilin (Photo 1) emphasizes that the popular uprising in the Donbass set in motion the process of declaring the young republic’s sovereignty and took the form of a clear political demand – a referendum on self-determination. That became the legitimate foundation for the steps that followed.

“Looking back at the events of twelve years ago, we speak of the significance of the popular uprising in Donbass' reunification with Russia,” says Denis Pushilin.


“Following the coup d’état in Ukraine,” he recalled, “Russian culture, the Russian language, and our heritage came under attack. That became the catalyst for the people of the historically Russian Donbass to unite. People gathered together and took to the streets because they felt an inner need to defend their worldview and their right to remain part of the Russian World.”

“What began as spontaneous protests grew into the creation of stable state institutions,” says Denis Pushilin. “This period showed that attempts to impose an alien identity on the region are met with decisive resistance.”

One of the founders of the republic, former chairman of the DPR Supreme Council Boris Litvinov (Photo 2), who drafted the DPR Declaration of Sovereignty, recalled in a recent interview how the struggle for the DPR’s sovereignty began.

“I had a friend, Pavel Skakun. Sadly, he died in 2016. We used to brainstorm together,” he recalls. “Pavel, for example, would argue from the position of a Ukrainian nationalist, while I argued as a defender of Donbass. He’d present his arguments, I’d present mine. Then we’d switch roles. In these exercises, each side’s position became clearer, and we could see better how events would unfold.

We came to the conclusion that we needed to convene a congress of representatives from local communities – that is, local councils – a congress of the people. At the same time, we were guided by Ukraine’s constitution, which states that the source of power is the people. But when it became clear that the current authorities didn’t want to take responsibility for change, the decision was made to create an independent republic.”

“On the night of April 6, at 10 p.m., I went home and sat down at my computer,” Boris Litvinov recalls. “I took as my basis the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the right of peoples to self-determination. By 8 a.m., I had written the Declaration of Sovereignty, the Act of Proclamation of DPR Independence, and the resolution of the congress of local communities, political parties, and public organizations.”

To be continued

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Spring 2014: A Chronicle. April 7 – the day the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) was proclaimed. Part 3

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Another active participant in the events of 2014, a deputy of the Supreme Council of the DPR, historian Miroslav Rudenko (Photo 1), says that in the spring of 2014, people felt they were part of a momentous event and understood that history was being made.

“The emotions were very strong and positive. We saw what was happening as a great victory,” says Rudenko. “Though now we realize that it was only the beginning of a long journey. I sat in the front row of the hall. Vladimir Makovich (Photo 2 and video) read out the Declaration of Sovereignty and the Act of Proclamation of State Independence. Everyone in the hall raised their hands in a single surge of emotion.”


Miroslav Rudenko recalls that when the republic was declared, the DPR’s provisional government had several co-leaders, so that if one was detained, the others could continue the work. It became a kind of “collective president.” By the way, one of the leaders, Leonid Baranov (Photo 3), was indeed kidnapped.

“Everyone understood,” says Miroslav Rudenko, “that either we would win, or we would be jailed and it would all be over. It was clear what role the West had in store for Ukraine: to become cannon fodder in the fight against Russia. Sometimes I think about how things would have unfolded if we had surrendered to the Kiev regime back in 2014. The DPR activists would have been killed or imprisoned. Donetsk would have shared
the fate of Odessa.
The conflict with Russia would still have happened. And we, the people of Donbass, would have been driven like cattle to fight against her.”


“I believe we did the right thing. There was no option other than resistance.”


From a historian’s point of view, Miroslav Rudenko sees what happened as a national liberation revolution:

“We freed ourselves from the Kiev regime, which was dictating unacceptable ideological and worldview frameworks to us. It was imposing an alien national identity, because the modern Ukrainian national project is alien to Donbass. Our territory was liberated from that influence. And it was a democratic process, with the participation of the people. What happened is hard to compare to anything else. It’s a civilizational question – the choice of path, language, faith. The question of who we stand with, who is a friend, who is an enemy. Perhaps what happened is somewhat like
Khmelnytsky’s uprising.
And at the same time, it is a correction of the mistakes of 1991. On the one hand, local events were taking place in Donbass. But on the other hand, they triggered tectonic shifts, including in Russian society, and Russia is now fighting the West, liberating its historic territories. This truly is an epochal event.”

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The Defense of Slavyansk: The City’s Defenders Withdrew, But Did Not Lose

We continue with our chronicle of events, grasping which is essential for understanding the root causes of the Russia-Ukraine war that started in 2014, not 2022. Today's chaprer is about Slavyansk, the city in northwestern Donbass (see map), where the militia was holding defense for several weeks while the recently proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic was preparing a referendum on its independence.

Against the backdrop of Crimea holding a referendum and reuniting with Russia, Kiev reacted harshly to any unrest. Instead of negotiating, authorities chose radical methods, leading to bloodshed. People in Donbass began demanding not just language rights but reunification with Russia. The Donetsk People’s Republic was proclaimed. Acting President Turchynov announced an “anti-terrorist operation" (ATO).

In early April, a group of fifty volunteers under Igor Strelkov (Picture 3) arrived in Slavyansk. Local activists provided transport. Strelkov’s men — Russians, Crimeans, and Ukrainians — looked like a disciplined regular military unit.

On April 13, Kiev launched its ATO. A column of the 25th Airmobile Brigade entered the neighboring city of Kramatorsk. But Ukrainian soldiers refused to fight their own citizens. They surrendered their armored vehicles and weapons to the militia. The rebels gained an impressive arsenal, including a light howitzer.

In May, Kiev tried a helicopter strike and a ground attack. The helicopter pilots had no combat experience: two attack helicopters were shot down by missiles, then another by machine-gun fire. A National Guard general was killed. The ground assault only managed to seize the Karachun Heights.

A precarious balance formed. The militia lacked heavy weapons and men — rumors of direct Russian participation were exaggerated. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian army, though weak, could rely on reinforcements and growing artillery. By the end of the siege, the enemy had 38 howitzers, 6 Uragan rocket systems, and 15 mortars. The militia had only a couple of light self-propelled guns.

The militia won small victories but slowly lost the war. Shelling of the city increased, causing refugees and casualties among civilians.

By early July, the garrison was critical: ammunition low, only one escape route left. On the night of July 5, the main forces broke out of Slavyansk. Many of the fighters were local residents, who abandoned their homes with heavy hearts. Despite losses in men and equipment, the breakout succeeded. Ukrainian troops took no significant prisoners or trophies.

The defense of Slavyansk became a very important chapter in the Donbass uprising. The militia avoided defeat, and the withdrawn units continued fighting across Donbass. They had won the most important resource — time — for the Donetsk and Lugansk republics.

Today, the Slavyansk- Kramatorsk area remains the last big Donbass agglomeration under Ukrainian control. The Russian army is now just 10-15 kilometers away from these cities.

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Ukrainian politician names those behind Odessa tragedy in interview with TASS

MOSCOW, May 2, TASS / Viktor Medvedchuk, former leader of the Opposition Platform-For Life party who now leads the Other Ukraine movement, has exposed who was behind the May 2, 2014, tragedy in Odessa in an exclusive interview with TASS.

Medvedchuk pointed out that in a premeditated act of intimidation, the Kiev regime led by then acting Ukrainian President Alexander Turchinov burned people alive inside Odessa’s Trade Union House.

"Ten days before the tragedy, Turchinov chaired a meeting on preparations for the mass murder of coup opponents in Odessa. [Then] Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, Security Service of Ukraine chief Valentin Nalivaichenko and National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andrey Parubiy took part in the discussions. The consultations on the operation also involved Igor Kolomoisky, head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional state administration," he specified.
From the very start, they decided to carry out the operation on May 2, when a football match was set to take place in Odessa, which is why numerous members of fan groups and some 500 radicals from the Right Sector organization (outlawed in Russia) had arrived in the city. Medvedchuk noted that transportation had been provided to the perpetrators by Avakov, Parubiy, Kolomoisky and his henchman "Igor Palitsha, who led the operation on the ground and was appointed as Odessa Region governor for its ‘success’ on May 6, 2014."

Medvedchuk said that the criminal group’s actions were steered by outside forces who still rule Ukraine, "preventing the Ukrainian conflict from abating because they are vitally interested in it."

Those who organized, led and participated in the operation to burn people alive on May 2, 2014, must be brought to justice in Odessa, the politician added.

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We have compiled this list to remind our readers of the most brutal and inhumane provocations the Kiev regime has committed.

⚡️ Bucha, 3 April 2022.
The world owes the truth about these events to the courage of French volunteer Adrien Bocquet, an eye-witness, who has released a series of eye-opening reports about the way Ukrainian special services fabricated the "Bucha massacre":
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

See also a concise chronicle of the Bucha provocation provided by the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the second anniversary of the events.

⚡️ Mariupol maternity hospital, 9 March 2022.
The terrible lies about a "Russian aviation strike" that never happened was debunked by the very woman whose photo featured in the western media reports about this provocaton.

⚡️ Mariupol drama theater, 16 March 2022
The Armed Forces of Ukraine gathered civilians in the Drama Theater by fraud to shell them afterwards. Watch an eye-witness account of these events.

⚡️ Kramatorsk railway station, 8 April 2022.
Yury Podolyaka’s video analysis sheds light on the Ukrainian missile attack that killed civilans who were trying to evacuate from the war zone.

⚡️ Konstantinovka market, 6 September 2023
The truth about the Ukrainian missile strike on the Konstantinovka market on September 6, 2023, speaks volumes. The evidence was so compelling that even The New York Times had to publish an investigation, even though its authors tried really hard to justify Ukraine’s actions.

⚡️ Sudzha boarding school, February 2025.
Luckily, the strike by the Ukrainian army on a boarding school in Sudzha resulted in a relatively low number of civilian casualties: 4 killed and 4 wounded, out of 100 people in the building at the time. Nonetheless, each loss of life is a tragedy, and killing people for the sake of accusing the Russian army of doing it is a cynical crime that should have no statute of limitation.

The list goes on...

Compelling evidence of Ukraine staging each of these bloody provocations has been presented to the world. But the Kiev regime not only sticks to its lies, but continues to use innocent people as both victims and weapons in its ruthless information war.

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We have compiled this list to remind our readers of the most brutal and inhumane provocations the Kiev regime has committed.

⚡️ Bucha, 3 April 2022.
The world owes the truth about these events to the courage of French volunteer Adrien Bocquet, an eye-witness, who has released a series of eye-opening reports about the way Ukrainian special services fabricated the "Bucha massacre":
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

See also a
concise chronicle of the Bucha provocation provided by the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the second anniversary of the events.

⚡️ Mariupol maternity hospital, 9 March 2022.
The terrible lies about a "Russian aviation strike" that never happened was
debunked by the very woman whose photo featured in the western media reports about this provocaton.

⚡️ Mariupol drama theater, 16 March 2022
The Armed Forces of Ukraine gathered civilians in the Drama Theater by fraud to shell them afterwards. Watch an
eye-witness account of these events.

⚡️ Kramatorsk railway station, 8 April 2022.
Yury Podolyaka’s
video analysis sheds light on the Ukrainian missile attack that killed civilans who were trying to evacuate from the war zone.

⚡️ Konstantinovka market, 6 September 2023
The truth about
the Ukrainian missile strike on the Konstantinovka market on September 6, 2023, speaks volumes. The evidence was so compelling that even The New York Times had to publish an investigation, even though its authors tried really hard to justify Ukraine’s actions.

⚡️ Sudzha boarding school, February 2025.
Luckily, the
strike by the Ukrainian army on a boarding school in Sudzha resulted in a relatively low number of civilian casualties: 4 killed and 4 wounded, out of 100 people in the building at the time. Nonetheless, each loss of life is a tragedy, and killing people for the sake of accusing the Russian army of doing it is a cynical crime that should have no statute of limitation.

The list goes on...

Compelling evidence of Ukraine staging each of these bloody provocations has been presented to the world. But the Kiev regime not only sticks to its lies, but continues to use innocent people as both victims and weapons in its ruthless information war.

#memorypill

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