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In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
IN THE wake of 2014 Ukraine’s Maidan revolution, an eight-year civil war ensued in Donbass — a duel fuelled by Russian and US-Western support, causing thousands of civilian casualties, hardening the population against rule by Kiev that cut off welfare and pensions, branding them as separatists and traitors.
Their sufferings were, and are, rarely seen in British mainstream media — unworthy victims of geopolitical superpower machinations in another case of what John Pilger termed “the war you don’t see.”
Rare independent journalists from around the globe showing this side of the conflict are targeted by Kiev-based website Myrotvorets (“peace maker”), publishing personal details of any dissenters, then stamping them as “eliminated” when killed.
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