Permit me, our dear readers of this column, to present to you the following information, which I find to be very interesting:
Eight years of conflict leave behind pain and desolation in Donbass
Published: 25 Feb 2022
RT (It is to be noted that RT is a Russian news agency, and the accuracy of some of the claims in this report has not been independently confirmed.)
Churches, cemeteries, residential buildings, or even schools and hospitals bear the marks of bombing by Ukrainian forces. RT cameras have toured some of the many places in the Donetsk People’s Republic where the serious consequences left by the bombings of the Ukrainian forces on these territories located in Donbass remain visible to this day. One of these sites is located on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk, near the line of contact that had been established in 2014. The impact of shells against all kinds of targets—be it churches, cemeteries, residential buildings, or even schools and hospitals—has become commonplace here. Among the buildings that preserve the marks of shots is the Iverski monastery, one of the faces of the region. It was built in 2001 and belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church. Since 2014 the religious temple has been the target of constant attacks. But despite all the attempts to destroy it, masses continue to be celebrated here and the faithful come to the monastery to pray so that the nightmare they have lived in their own flesh for eight years will end once and for all.
Residents of the neighborhoods near the Donetsk airport still remember very well the intense fighting that took place in this area. In the streets you can find some monuments to civilians who died during the aggression of the Ukrainian Army in the years 2014-2016. Many of these victims were children. “My daughter was 22 years old. I still can’t resign myself. A shrapnel wounded her heart in the middle of the street and also pierced her lung. She died in two hours, on July 24, 2014,” says Liudmila Rut, mother of one of the victims honored in one of these monuments. Another scar left by the bombing is a residential building that suffered the impact of dozens of attacks from Ukraine and, although it is hard to believe, not all its tenants have left. In each portal there are two or three families who, despite all the danger, continue to live in the same apartments simply because they cannot imagine a life outside of that place.
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February 26, 2022
Finca Solana
Corozal Town