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.