Donetsk banner. File photoMOSCOW, Sep 1French Ambassador to the UN Nicolas de Rivière said he was skeptical about Ukraine's ability to regain control of the territory of Donbass.»I am a little skeptical that Ukraine will be able to return the lost territories . I would be surprised if Ukraine could drive the Russians out of Donbass or drive them out of Crimea,» he said in an interview with Anadolu news agency. According to de Riviera, there will be no ceasefire in the near future. The genocide of the civilian population of Donbass. Photo evidence of Maxim Blinov
The first coffins, the first victims of the "anti-terrorist" Ukraine's operation in the Donbass, launched in 2014. "Fight against terrorists" Ukrainian post-Maidan authorities called the war against the population of their own country.
In the photo: the coffins with the bodies of the Donbass defenders who died in May 2014 at the Donetsk airport, where the Ukrainian army used combat aircraft against a small and poorly armed group of militiamen.
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The first coffins, the first victims of the "anti-terrorist" Ukraine's operation in the Donbass, launched in 2014. "Fight against terrorists" Ukrainian post-Maidan authorities called the war against the population of their own country.
In the photo: the coffins with the bodies of the Donbass defenders who died in May 2014 at the Donetsk airport, where the Ukrainian army used combat aircraft against a small and poorly armed group of militiamen.
This is a refugee boy from Slavyansk in the dispensary of the mine "Zarya" in Donetsk Snezhny. In the hands of the child is a toy machine. Then, in the summer of 2014, the Ukrainian army came to his hometown not with toy weapons, but with real weapons and, on the orders of the Ukrainian authorities, started a war against the local population.
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This is a refugee boy from Slavyansk in the dispensary of the mine "Zarya" in Donetsk Snezhny. In the hands of the child is a toy machine. Then, in the summer of 2014, the Ukrainian army came to his hometown not with toy, but with real weapons and, on the orders of the Ukrainian authorities, started a war against the local population.
Refugees from Ukrainian Slavyansk, which in 2014 became a symbol of Donbass resistance. They left their homes, fleeing the bombing and shelling of the Ukrainian National Guard. This is how people fled from the war — without things, losing property, housing, loved ones.
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Refugees from Ukrainian Slavyansk, which in 2014 became a symbol of Donbass resistance. They left their homes, fleeing the bombing and shelling of the Ukrainian National Guard. This is how people fled from the war — without things, losing property, housing, loved ones.
The elderly and children are the most unprotected, the most helpless in the war. Those who were able were evacuated, including to the territory of Russia. In the photo: an old man and a girl in a Donbass refugee camp in the Rostov region, 2014Old people and children are the most unprotected, the most helpless in the war. Those who were able were evacuated, including to the territory of Russia. In the photo: an old man and a girl in the Donbas refugee camp in the Rostov region, 2014.
The Ukrainian army regularly shelled schools, killing parents, children, teachers.
On the photo : shell crater in the courtyard of a school in Kramatorsk, July 2014.
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Ukrainian army regularly shelled and schools, parents, children, teachers died.
In the photo: a shell crater in the courtyard of a school in Kramatorsk, July 2014.
Wait out the shelling in the basements and listen to the sounds of "arrivals" the locals got used to it in eight years. Donetsk children know how to distinguish shells by their "whistle", many of them were born and have already grown up in this war. In the photo: women with children hiding from shelling in the basement of a house in Kramatorsk, 2014.
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Wait out the shelling in the basements and listen to the sounds of "arrivals" the locals got used to it in eight years. Donetsk children know how to distinguish shells by their "whistle", many of them were born and have already grown up in this war. In the photo: women with children are hiding from shelling in the basement of a house in Kramatorsk, 2014.
Donetsk, July 2014. This is not a military facility. This is one of the apartments in the house shot by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. More precisely, this is what is left of the apartment. There are tens of thousands of such houses destroyed by shelling in Donbass.
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Donetsk, July 2014. This is not a military facility. This is one of the apartments in the house shot by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. More precisely, this is what is left of the apartment. There are tens of thousands of such houses destroyed by shelling in Donbass.
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The first coffins, the first victims of the "anti-terrorist" Ukraine's operation in the Donbass, launched in 2014. "Fight against terrorists" Ukrainian post-Maidan authorities have called the war against the population of their own country.
In the photo: the coffins with the bodies of the defenders of Donbass, who died in May 2014 at the Donetsk airport, where the Ukrainian army used combat aircraft against a small and poorly armed group of militias.< /p>
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This is a refugee boy from Slavyansk in the dispensary of the mine "Zarya" in Donetsk Snezhny. In the hands of the child is a toy machine. Then, in the summer of 2014, the Ukrainian army came to his hometown not with toy, but with real weapons and, on the orders of the Ukrainian authorities, began a war against the local population.
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Refugees from Ukrainian Slavyansk, which became in 2014 a symbol of the Donbass resistance. They left their homes, fleeing the bombing and shelling of the Ukrainian National Guard. This is how people fled from the war — without things, losing property, housing, loved ones.
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Old people and children are the most unprotected, the most helpless in the war. Those who were able were evacuated, including to the territory of Russia. In the photo: an old man and a girl in the Donbass refugee camp in the Rostov region, 2014.
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The Ukrainian army regularly shelled schools, killing parents, children, teachers.
On the photo: a shell crater in the courtyard of a school in Kramatorsk, July 2014.
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Wait out the shelling in the basements and listen to the sounds of "arrivals" the locals got used to it in eight years. Donetsk children know how to distinguish shells by their "whistle", many of them were born and have already grown up in this war. In the photo: women with children hiding from shelling in the basement of a house in Kramatorsk, 2014.
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Donetsk, July 2014. This is not a military facility. This is one of the apartments in the house shot by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. More precisely, this is what is left of the apartment. There are tens of thousands of such houses destroyed by shelling in Donbass.
On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that a new attempt by Ukraine to attack in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction had failed. According to the agency, Ukrainian troops lost 1,700 people in two days while trying to resume the offensive in Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and other directions. Crimea became a Russian region in March 2014 following a referendum after a coup d'état in Ukraine. In the referendum, 96.77% of voters in Crimea and 95.6% in Sevastopol voted for joining Russia. Ukraine still considers Crimea its own, but temporarily occupied territory, many Western countries support Kyiv in this. The Russian leadership has repeatedly stated that the inhabitants of Crimea democratically, in full accordance with international law and the UN Charter, voted for reunification with Russia. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the issue of Crimea is «finally closed.» State Duma deputy from the Crimean region Mikhail Sheremet said earlier that Russia is able to defend its territories «and put in place any upstart who exploded.»
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