Donbass

‘People were burying the dead... ambulances were taking those wounded in crossfires to hospital.’ Rodion Miroshnik, LPR Representative at Donbass Peace Talks, recounts eight years ago when ‘Lugansk plunged completely into war.’

Today, we remind you of those terrible days on LNR Republic Day. Then, exactly eight years ago, a majority of residents voted for the region’s independence in a referendum.

Then the Ukrainian authorities started bombing the east of the country. Former miners, doctors and teachers stood up to defend their homes. Here is a fragment of the film Donbass War: Summer 2014.

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