• @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
      edit-2
      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