• CarbonScored [any]
    hexbear
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    5 months ago

    Decades of stressed attempts by journalists to highlight plight in Palestine means people are inevitably aware that Palestinians might actually be people after all.

    Absolutely zero coverage of the ethnic Russians/Russophones in Ukraine being discriminated against / outright murdered means nobody realises there was even a reason the Russo-Ukrainian war started and so are left to conclude Putin is INSANE.

    • @TimeTravel_0
      hexagon
      hexbear
      18
      5 months ago

      Is there anyplace I can read more about what had been going in Donbas prior to the 2022 invasion? Ive heard accounts in both hexbear and lemmygrad of discrimination and possibly genocide against ethnic russians in the reigon but havent found any sources (although I havent looked too hard)

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
        hexbear
        13
        5 months ago

        https://t.me/hotphosph/2

        Here’s a quick little montage of war footage from pre-2022 in Donbas. These are civilian cities being bombed and having white phosphorous indiscriminately rained down upon them. 14,000 dead over 8 years.

      • AOCapitulator [they/them]
        hexbear
        11
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        5 months ago

        A lot of what I know I learned here https://www.youtube.com/@PatrickLancasterNewsToday

        On the ground english speaking independent news reporter, was on the ground in Donetsk in the years leading to the full hot war

        Here's a playlist from 9 years ago interviewing folks in the area that Ukraine would shell over 20,000 times in the years after their referendum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5MDYoOerA8&list=PL5iECS-08XTvJ0osnTRpD_gLJok8P_hl3