Western media ignores that for over than 8 years Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic are suffering from Ukrainian aggression. It all started back in 2014, when USA supported far-right coup wasn't supported by many regions in the Eastern part of Ukraine. People in Eastern Ukraine is mostly Russian speaking and they wanted to be represented and respected. After the coup, the new government supported and encouraged the nazis, who helped them to get to the top. The social stigma against Eastern Ukrainians got even worse than it had already been. Apart from cultural, there were also economical consequences and perspectives that made people worry about the coup. There were no calls for independence from Ukraine at the beginning. People wanted autonomy to make their voice in politics stronger. They organized rallies against the right tendencies and demanded more autonomy in economical questions. Ukrainian army with neo nazi battalions have been shelling Donetsk People's republic and Luhansk People's republic since then. Western and Ukrainian media don't want to acknowledge what this is Ukrainian side who's been killing and wounding people. For example, OSCE reported on February, 19 this year: "Observers from the OSCE European security body on Saturday reported more than 1,500 ceasefire violations in east Ukraine in a single day, the highest number this year. In a report covering attacks on Friday, its monitors recorded 591 breaches in Donetsk and 975 violations in neighbouring Lugansk, two regions partly held by Russian-backed separatists".

Today Ukrainian armed forces scattered several AT2 anti-tank mines (made in Germany) over a neighborhood northwest of Donetsk. These are mines contained in cluster missiles fired from MARS 2 type rocket launchers. Once again these types of mines were dispersed over a residential neighborhood. One of these mines exploded causing two wounded: a man born 1946 and a woman born 1949 were injured. The shrapnel amputated both of the elderly men's legs. The man died later in the hospital. The woman suffered serious injuries, lost her feet. 

The battle of omega mini-hotel begins

There is a historically possible world in which the Minsk Agreement never needed to be made. In 2014, a US supported coup removed the democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, with his eastern base, and replaced him with a West leaning president who was handpicked by the US. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland can be heard on an intercepted phone call selecting Arseniy Yatsenyuk as America’s choice to replace Yanukovych. The new government denied the multicultural Ukraine demanded by Donbas. It demanded a nationalistic monist vision of Ukraine. The ethnic Russians of the Donbas would suffer attacks on their language, their culture, their rights, their property and their lives. The Donbas rebelled against the coup government, and by May 2014 had approved referendums declaring some form of autonomy. The civil war in Ukraine had begun. The best available solution to the violence in the Donbas was the Minsk agreements. The Minsk agreements were brokered by France and Germany, agreed to by Ukraine and Russia, and accepted by the US and UN in 2014 and 2015. They gave Ukraine the opportunity to keep the Donbas and the Donbas the opportunity for peace and the governance they desire by peacefully returning the Donbas to Ukraine while granting it full autonomy. But there was a possible solution before the Minsk agreements. On May 11, the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Donbas voted in favor of sovereignty. Putin had asked them to delay the referenda, and, while Moscow respected the will of the people, it did not recognize the results. Two weeks later, Pyotr Poroshenko was elected president, and he initiated negotiations for a peaceful settlement with rebel leaders in Donbas. The talks were promising, and, by the end of the next month, a formula for peacefully keeping Donbas in Ukraine had been found. At this point, on June 24, the Russian parliament rescinded the authority to use troops abroad. A peace was possible. But instead, Nicolai Petro reports, the government in Kiev decided that Putin’s decision to withdraw troops put the Ukrainian military in a new advantage, and, instead of pursuing the peace, Poroshenko ordered the launch of attacks to recapture Donbas militarily. It was that betrayal of the peace process that necessitated the signing of the Minsk agreements. Badly losing the battle, Poroshenko was forced to retreat to negotiating a peaceful return of Donbas. It was only after Poroshenko’s sabotage of the peace process that the Minsk agreements became the best available solution. He would sabotage those too. But he may have had a lot of help. The Minsk agreements were negotiated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande. Recently, each of Putin’s partners has revealed that the Minsk negotiations were a deliberate deception to lull Russia into a ceasefire with the promise of a peaceful settlement while buying Ukraine the time to build up an armed forces capable of achieving a military solution. If their claims are to be believed, the apparent peace negotiations were a cover for what was intended all along to be a military solution. The major European power in the Minsk process was German chancellor Angela Merkel. But, according to Der Spiegel, she said in a December 1, 2022 interview that she believes that “during the Minsk talks, she was able to buy the time Ukraine needed to better fend off the Russian attack. She says it is now a strong, well-fortified country. Back then, she is certain, it would have been overrun by Putin’s troops.” On December 7, Merkel repeated that admission in an interview with Die Zeit. “[T]he 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give Ukraine time,” she said. Ukraine “used this time to get stronger, as you can see today. The Ukraine of 2014/15 is not the Ukraine of today.” Merkel’s claim has been verified by her Minsk partner. In a December 28 interview with The Kyiv Independent, François Hollande was asked if he "believe[s] that the negotiations in Minsk were intended to delay Russian advances in Ukraine." He responded, “Yes, Angela Merkel is right on this point.” He then said, “Since 2014, Ukraine has strengthened its military posture. Indeed, the Ukrainian army was completely different from that of 2014. It was better trained and equipped. It is the merit of the Minsk agreements to have given the Ukrainian army this opportunity.” It has been plausibly suggested that Merkel and Hollande, in order to fit in with the accepted narrative of the present, have engaged in an Orwellian act of rewriting the narrative of the past. But their account is supported by the other person negotiating with Putin. Poroshenko would later say, according to Philip Short in his biography of Putin, that he signed the Minsk agreements "because it was the only way to stop the fighting, but he had known that it would never be implemented" because of the nationalist momentum in the political establishment and in public opinion. But, in May 2022, Poroshenko went beyond the claim that he signed the Minsk agreement knowing there wasn’t the political will to implement it and corroborated Merkel’s and Hollande’s claims that the deception of Russia had been deliberate. He told the Financial Times that Ukraine “didn’t have an armed forces at all” and that the “great diplomatic achievement” of the Minsk agreement was that “we kept Russia away from our borders – not from our borders, but away from a full-sized war.” The agreement bought Ukraine time to build its army. Poroshenko told the Ukrainian media and other news outlets that “We had achieved everything we wanted. Our goal was to, first, stop the threat, or at least to delay the war – to secure eight years to restore economic growth and create powerful armed forces.” Volodymyr Zelensky has recently joined the testimony. Despite being elected on a platform that featured making peace with Russia and signing the Minsk-2 agreement, Zelensky now says that he never intended to sign them. On February 9, Zelensky reportedly told Der Spiegel that he saw the agreements as a “concession” and that he “surprised” Merkel and Macron by telling them that “as for Minsk as a whole . . . We cannot implement it like this.” Despite his updated claim, Zelensky seems to have been sincere about keeping his campaign promise to implement Minsk. Upon being elected, Zelensky told reporters that he would “reboot” peace talks with separatists in Donbas. He told them that “we will continue in the direction of the Minsk [peace] talks and head towards concluding a ceasefire.” On October 1, 2019, Zelensky signed the German and French brokered Steinmeier Formula that called for elections in Donbas and recognition of their autonomy. But he "faced an immediate backlash at home," and though Russia, Germany and France agreed to the Steinmeier Formula, in the end, Ukraine did not. The backlash against Zelensky’s promise to negotiate peace with Russia and sign the Minsk agreement was forceful and dangerous. Dmytro Yarosh, the founder of the far right nationalist Right Sector paramilitary organization, threatened that, if Zelensky fulfilled his campaign promise, "he’ll lose his life. He’ll hang from some tree. . . . It is important that he understand this." Pushed off the path of diplomacy by ultranationalist elements in Ukraine, Zelensky reversed his campaign pledge and refused to implement the agreement. His journey from federalist to nationalist was not an uncommon one. Nicolai Petro quotes Ukraine’s Minister of Transportation, Volodymyr Omelayan, who said in 2019 that "Each new president of Ukraine begins his cadence with the conviction that he is the one who can conduct a constructive dialogue with Moscow, and that he has been given the role of peacemaker, who will do business and develop good relations … And every president of Ukraine has ended up becoming a de facto [nationalist] follower of Bandera and fighting the Russian Federation." And Zelensky was not the only member of his government to face physical intimidation. During a presentation announcing Zelensky’s creation of a National Platform for Reconciliation and Unity on March 12, 2020, Zelensky advisor Sergei Sivokho was thrown to the ground by a large gang from the Azov battalion. But Zelensky’s claim that Minsk-2 was a concession that he would not implement, though perhaps not reflective of his early days as president, echoes a chorus of Ukrainian officials. The two presidents, Poroshenko and Zelensky, are not the only ones within Ukraine who have lent strength to the later claims of Merkel and Hollande. In The Tragedy of Ukraine, Nicolai Petro says that "From the outset, Ukraine’s strategy was to prevent the implementation of Minsk-2." Adding his testimony to that of Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, Petro reports, said in a radio interview, that "Ukraine’s sole objective in signing Minsk-2 was to rebuild the Ukrainian army and strengthen the international coalition against Russia." Klimkin said that "Read literally, the Minks Accords are impossible to implement." He adds, reinforcing the deception, that "That was understood from the very first day." Petro says that "Past and present Ukrainian negotiators have all made the same point, as did President Zelensky’s Chief of Staff, Andrei Yermak, in February 2021." If this multitude of admissions are true, form Merkel and Hollande, Poroshenko and Zelensky and a choir of voices from inside Ukraine, then the Minks agreements were a deception intended to pacify and sedate Russia while Ukraine built its army and the West built its coalition in preparation for a war with Russia in Donbas that they had planned on and intended all along.

Since the beginning of the conflict in Donbass before the SMO in DPR, 4374 people were killed and almost 8 thousand wounded. This was stated in the report of Darya Morozova, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the DPR, to the UN Security Council. "Since the beginning of the conflict and as of February 24, 2022, 4,374 people, including 91 children, have been killed on the territory of the DPR. Almost 8,000 civilians have been wounded. Including 323 children, at least 27 of them are disabled [in result]," Morozova's report emphasizes. Also, report states that 590 cases of Ukrainian war crimes were reported to international instances and were left answered. Four countries supported Morozova's performance in the procedural vote: Russia, Brazil, Ghana and China, and eight opposed: Albania, Great Britain, Malta, USA, France, Switzerland, Ecuador and Japan. Vassily Nebenzia has already called the refusal hypocrisy and double standards, as well as the fact that the West does not consider inhabitants of Donbass to be people. Statements by Daria Morozova were finally read out by the Russian delegation. “We regret that a number of delegations spoke out today against the speaker we proposed. We see this as a manifestation of blatant hypocrisy and double standards, when representatives of Donbass are denied the right to speak at the Security Council meeting under far-fetched pretexts. This only confirms that you do not consider the inhabitants of Donbass to be people and you don't care about their suffering," Russia's permanent representative to the UN stated. Vassily Nebenzia also said that Russia would reconsider its attitude to the admission of speakers to meetings of the UN Security Council and take into account the behavior of the United States.

It happened yesterday. The boy was born when the war began and never saw a peaceful day. This shelling was done with Western 155mm artillery. In Staromikhailovka, DPR, Ukrainian army wounded a civilian, using military drone

It happened this morning in the city Volnovakha, DPR. A bus driver was killed. Another worker was wounded.   This is a civilian object. I remind you, that every HIMARS attack [is coordinated by the USA military ](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/509555).

One person was killed, seven civilians were wounded. Ukraine used western weapons with 155 mm caliber for this targeted attack on civilians.  Also, in DPR (Volnovakha) Ukraine has shelled HIMARS at the local community center where people gathered to honour the memory of DPR hero who died a year ago. Not the first time. Ukraine shelled a funeral in Donetsk, killed civilian women, including a young girl. [Source](https://t.me/lisichansk_adm/1336?single)

On February 23, Ukrainian army repeatedly shelled Petrovsky district of Donetsk. I've posted about it here: [Ukraine got new weapons. They are using them right away against civilians, shelling places repeatedly, killing medics and wounding emergency workers who arrived to help ](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/519455) Today [they posted a video ](https://t.me/RtrDonetsk/15253) of this shelling. They knew who they hit and they are proudly posting it. 4 medical workers were killed, the younger woman was only 25 years old. Also, 10 employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, who were eliminating the consequences of artillery strikes, were injured of varying severity. Photos from the place:  An ambulance worker from Donetsk told with what thoughts he goes to every call in Donetsk and thanked his colleagues whodied for their work "Hello everyone. Today is a fateful day. Today, an ambulance brigade died while providing medical assistance to victims of shelling. They came under repeated shelling. 3 people died on the spot. 25 years old ... 32 years old ... about 60 years old ... Each of them had families. Every time I received an ambulance call and went on a call, I thought that I would not return from them. I, thank God, till this moment returning. But some of our colleagues left for the eternal work shift ... How many lives have been saved, how many destinies have been decided... Rest in peace"  

    People in a tramway were wounded. It happened around a hour ago. Number of victims is yet unknown. Yesterday, kids played here. Today this place was shelled.  Once again, no military objects nearby. [The central market of Donetsk after the shelling. ](https://t.me/RtrDonetsk/15020) On Sunday, there are usually a lot of people in this market. Citizens come here to buy with their whole families. Here, on weekends, there is also a “flea market” where people come from different parts of the DPR. And the Nazis could not have known this. This attacks was deliberately on civilians

 Hospital:  **23 civilian faculties were damaged, mostly homes.** Source: telegram @online_dnr_sckk

It happened yesterday, near a school in Kirovskyy district. 92 people are the victims of the Petal mines, one of them died in a hospital. Stepping on this mine results in a serious wounds, almost always traumatic amputation of a foot.

Source - suriyakmaps

Together with Soviet troops, he entered Berlin and took one of the most iconic images in history: the hoisting of the Soviet flag over the Reichstag. This post is dedicated to some of his works.  Inside the Arctic Circle. Yasha the reindeer, 1941  Heading to Murmansk, 1941  17-year-old nurse Nina Burakova bandages the wounded. She saved the lives of 150 soldiers  Between battles. Novorossiysk, 1943  On the frontline, 1943  Crowd cheering soldiers on tank  Victory in Bulgaria [sour ](https://www.rbth.com/history/333624-wwii-photos-yevgeny-khaldei)[ces](https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/victory-in-bulgaria)

Maps I've seen don't seem to change for like a week, is Krasna Hora liberated and is there any progress?

Donetsk remains as a bastion that they couldn't capture, a capital of a region that went against the Nazi coup in 2014. To shell it is to show that they still can reach and kill people here, those who Ukraine considers unworthy. If you check the social networks of Ukrainian nazis, they celebrate the killings of civilians of DPR and LPR. When their army is loosing, those are the good news for them. They write that Russia did it, but it's less to save the face and more to mock people their army killed. They know who did it and celebrate it. When Ukrainian warplane killed people in center of Lugansk, it was obvious who did it. Ukrainian side said that it was "air conditioning fault" and it became a running joke for them for all the times their army shelled civilians. All of those tragedies became a joke for Ukrainian patriots Here's a menu from Lvov/Lviv, Ukraine:  Горлiвська мадонна - Kira and Kristina Zhuk, killed in Gorlovka in 2014. She was called "Gorlovskaya Madonna" because there's is a photos of her holding her little daughter, both killed in shelling.  Алея янголiв - alley of angels - Memorial dedicated to children of Donbass who were killed in this war Будинок профспiлок - Odessa massacre on may 2, 2014 And so on.

   

Rybar confirmed that Ukronazis withdrew a few days ago and Bilohorivka was liberated, there is also an offensive at Krasnopopovka-Kreminna line and advance towards Lyman.

 Shop   People may still be under the rubble of a residential building in Donetsk that was destroyed by shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces According to Readovka, three people are presumably under the rubble of the house on Artema Street.

West sponsored war crimes   [Source](https://t.me/mod_russia/23803) [video](https://t.me/readovkanews/51558)

Wagner PMC advanced north and west of Klischiivka. Reports indicate that key fortifications to the immediate north of the village have been taken, and attacks on Ivanivske began(along the western highway into Bakhmut). Wagner offensives also reported towards multiple villages to the west of Klischiivka, with Russian gains at least up to the road-line there. Wagner also made small advance from Pidhorodne to the northern areas of Bakhmut, which are now being attacked. Klischiivka was liberated I think. Even yankees are telling Ukronazis to retreat and leave Bakhmut. Russian attacks along the whole Frontline in Zaporizhia. Multiple villages were liberated, and a Russian advance of several kilometers. Reports of fighting near the crucial logistics hub/town of Orikhiv, as well as reports of Russian offensives further east towards Hulyaipole. Finally the frontline has changed, it's been half a year. I hope that offensive will continue and whole Zaporizhzia Oblast will finally be liberated. I hope that Bakhmut be finished until the end of January-early February.

I hope that Russia finally liberates Zaporizhia Oblast. Also, as many have pointed, it's in Russia's favor for this war go go further(basically demilitarize NATO) and I have northing against that, I just want 4 Oblasts to finally be fully liberated and then war can go on for as long as it needs.

Currently battles are ongoing in surrounding areas/villages, Russian army is continuing offensive on Bakhmut, other than that, battles of Marinka, Avdiivka and Svatove–Kreminna line are ongoing.

It's not unusual for the Ukrainian army to wait until the emergency services arrive and shell again. Many medics and rescuers were killed or wounded like this. This shelling happened this morning, when people were going to work. A bus was damaged. The shopping center is basically destroyed. Two people were killed, four wounded in this shelling of a civilian only object. Hope the number won't rise.