This video opens with former President Poreshenko (7 June 2014 – 20 May 2019) on Ukraine parliamentary TV talking up genocide in Donbass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc9gUCy3Yds. The video, by Anne-Laure Bonnel, shows film of the daily lives of Russian-speaking Donbass Ukrainians, under bombardment from the Poroshenko regime, taken at three different times during 2015. Youtube's warning limiting access to adults seems over the top, but maybe it is a way of limiting our exposure to non-Western views. It is considerably less shocking than your average war or horro movie, except that it is real. Witnesses talk about people being buried headless in unmarked graves, including a pregnant woman. We see entire village populations living for months on end in cellars, without electricity, because the bombing makes it too dangerous to go outside. We see water being dragged home on a sled because water has been cut off. We see candles because there is no electricity. We see bodies lying in the streets. We see unattended dogs wandering round in packs. We see hungry people and old people whose pensions have been cut off, who would like to flee to Russia, but have no money to travel and resettle.
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