@saintjavelin Probably they thought it'd be the same as Chechnya and Georgia and a bunch of people they didn't know would die but the empire would be enlarged.
They would feel pride because despite how crap their lives are, Russia was mighty and they were part of Russia.
The video, from 2014, shows people in Donbas openly telling a journalist that the Ukrainian army is not shooting at them – that it is the DNR, essentially Russian-appointed puppets, who have been shelling the cities.
Show it to anyone who continues to spread russian propaganda that “Ukrainians were bombing Donbas for eight years.”
@BohuslavskaKate What is there to negotiate Merz, you utter clown? How much of Ukraine to hand over to Putin to reward his bloodlust?
Europe should be backing Ukraine, not begging Putin!
I'm running out of words.
Almost every day, russians proudly post videos of their war crimes, and the world keeps allowing it.
Kherson. Again. The perpetrators filmed their own war crime.
Human beings are being hunted like animals, and nobody cares.
Strangely enough, I don’t recall those who are now overcome with righteous indignation and throwing their hands up to the skies over the destruction of Russian “just warehouses of wild berries” near Moscow being nearly as emotional or outspoken when Russia, since 2022, has been regularly destroying Ukrainian Nova Poshta terminals and branches, Rozetka warehouses, as well as shopping malls and supermarkets in broad daylight while they were full of people.
Just yesterday, another Russian attack destroyed a publishing warehouse containing 250,000 Ukrainian books, and somehow I missed the cries of “that’s not a military target!” from those who suddenly become experts on the laws and customs of war when it is Moscow that is on the receiving end of a retaliatory strike.