DONETSK, Sep 16Russian-American athlete Jeff Monson said that he regularly receives death threats from Ukrainians who are supporters of the Kyiv authorities for his attempts to convey the truth about what is happening in the Donbass to the world. «Very few people in the United States support Donbass and accept the truth about it. I get very «A lot of hateful letters. A lot of specific letters, messages in instant messengers and from social networks from Ukraine and from Ukrainians with such content as: «I want to kill you!» . «They tell me:» You are crazy! You are a puppet or a puppy in the hands of the Russians. You do not understand what is happening! And I answer: “No, I just know what is happening! Because I have been in Donbass since 2016. I have been here for 6 years. I have come many times. And I have seen the suffering of people with my own eyes. they don't care. No one in the world, except Russia, cares about the people of Donbass. Nobody knows about them. And now everyone shouted «Russia is bad, Russians are bad!» all this, «it's very difficult, because for the last 8 years, since 2014, all the Americans and Europeans present here are the media that only speaks against Russia. «They just completely ignore everything that the Ukrainians are doing here,» — he concluded. Monson is 51. In June, he became vice-president of the Wrestling Federation of Bashkiria. Also in 2018, Monson was a deputy of the council of the Krasnogorsk city district of the Moscow region. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal » protection of people who for eight years they have been subjected to bullying, genocide by the Kyiv regime.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. The ultimate goal of the operation, according to the supreme commander, is «the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that would guarantee the security of Russia itself.»
