"You must understand, we didn´t start it. It was Ukraine"

"You must understand, we didn´t start it. It was Ukraine that began to show that they wanted to continue the war."

Rodion Miroshnik, LPR Representive at Donbass Peace Talks, told how, in 2014, the Ukrainian military arrived in Debaltsevo and began to engage in looting and racketeering among the local population. People that did not want war before were forced to defend their homes.