#StopKillingDonbass Day to once again draw world's attention to endless shelling of peaceful Donbass citizens by Ukrainian army & neo-Nazis
Held Everywhere: November 19, 2022
Please share the following information in whole or in part to help draw attention to what has become the daily plight of Donbass citizens since 2014 and dispel the seemingly never-ending propaganda and lies spun by the west.
via Eva Bartlett on Twitter:
Please share the official Rassemblements #StopKillingDonbass 19 Novembre 2022 video.
See also this previous post from September:
I am reposting the following which I previously published in September.
"Children of Donbass: Growing Up under Ukrainian Artillery Fire"
A documentary about 'kids without a childhood'
By Azra Dale • September 17, 2022
In the video below, George Eliason provides a review of RT’s new documentary, Children of Donbass: Growing Up under Ukrainian Artillery Fire.
❝If I had the talent to make the perfect documentary about this issue, this is exactly what I'd aim for.❞ – George Eliason
Children of Donbass
Growing up under Ukrainian artillery fire
RT • 9 September 2022
For eight years, the children of Donbass have been walking to school under Ukrainian artillery fire, have been separated from or even lost their parents, and have learnt to distinguish one type of ammo from another. However, they still have hope for a better future and dream of becoming teachers, engineers, and doctors to one day make their land thrive once again.
This is why even during the hardest of shellings, as they take refuge in basements, they carry on studying and refuse to quit school. With scarce light, little sleep and nearly no food they still manage to get their homework done.
Most of them don’t intend on leaving the region where they grow up and are convinced they would be useful here on Donbass, when time will come to rebuild a peaceful life free of the Ukrainian nationalists.
“When children play in the evening, and there is shelling, they can already tell when the shelling is further away and when it is closer. Some shout: 'It's not us they're shelling now, it's further away! In Donetsky, Artyom Street is being shelled.' Well, we're getting used to it,” says one of the residents. Children recognise the sound of shelling and know when to run to the basements. But it is not always possible to outrun the shells, and the death of children has become all too commonplace in Donbass.
Many children lost their parents to the bombings. Some had no close relatives or friends to go to and they ended up in orphanages, learning to live and deal with their trauma on their own. Left unattended, they can easily become prey for organ harvesters who disguise themselves as international foundations seeking to help the orphans. This is why orphanage authorities investigate everyone who approaches the children very closely to avoid such a tragedy.
How these brave children survive amid death and destruction you will see in the documentary.
I highly recommend watching RT’s documentary. It’s absolutely heartbreaking but also very informative.
For further background information please also see the following detailed posts.
Most unfortunately, the numerous tweets by Juan Sinmiedo with testimonials from residents of the Donbass which I had compiled in the two posts linked below so that they would be saved for posterity, are no longer available. I was unable in April to use Threadreader to save the threads nor the Wayback Machine due to Juan’s settings.
One can however, get the gist of what the material was about from the description for each of the many tweets.