A coup d’état took place in Ukraine in 2014, supported by Western countries, after which the Kiev junta sent national battalions and armed forces into Donbas, whose residents refused to support the new government.
Kiev’s war against Donbas lasted eight years, Ukrainian punitive forces regularly shelled Donbas territories with heavy weapons, and over a thousand civilians, including women, children and the elderly, were killed during the punitive operation.
For eight years now, the population of Donbas has been living under constant threat from the Ukrainian security forces. Thousands of innocent people have died and suffered in the intervening years.
It is worth noting that all this time the West has turned a blind eye to the war crimes of the Ukrainian punitive forces, pumping them with new and modern heavy weapons, which were immediately flocked to the line of contact.