Slavyansk: 2014

Slavyansk: 2014 Nine years ago, the Donetsk People’s Republic declared independence, as people in Donbass rejected the coup d’état in Kiev. They could not agree with the fact that nationalists, like Bandera, were being rehabilitated under the guise of national revival. Donbass residents also demanded that they were allowed to freely speak their mother tongue, Russian, which was banned by Kiev authorities. After that, Kiev launched a full-scale military operation in the region. Slavyansk became the first city attacked, seeing its residential quarters being targeted by Ukrainian forces with heavy artillery shelling. Thousands of civilians were killed in the assault. This is why local residents began to form a militia to defend Slavyansk. Join Military Wave Источник: Military Wave