Donbass listens to the silence with alarm
Oleg Izmailov, journalist, historian, Donetsk
Exactly a week has passed since the announcement of “silence” in Donbass. And although the shelling has decreased, the silence and everything around it that was noticed by different people these days is alarming.
Firstly, Donetsk has already experienced this. At the end of October, right on the eve of elections organized in Ukrainian territories, as well as elections in the DPR and LPR, the region enjoyed peace for eight whole days.
Relative, of course, because, just like now, individual shots thundered along the entire front. According to the Ministry of Information of the DPR, the Ukrainian military violated their terms more than a dozen times during the days of the truce. Volnovakha, Peski, Avdeevka - from these settlements, Ukrainian guns and mortars continued to destroy Donetsk and its suburbs. And yesterday, in the area of the long-suffering airport named after. Prokofiev, the OSCE inspectors and... the Ukrainian military, who were on their way to the rotation point of their troops, came under fire from the Ukrainians.
By the way, about airports. According to some data published by independent media, at least 5 large transport aircraft from NATO countries unloaded at the airports of Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, and Zaporozhye, which were closed for 32 days. Brand new tanks and armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles arrived from Volnovakha, Novoazovsk, Debaltsevo, Shchastya and Stanitsa-Luganskaya, as well as dozens of counter-battery systems and air defense systems. In the Mariupol area, dozens of square kilometers are mined, despite assurances that they will leave the airport, Ukrainian soldiers only continue to strengthen the defense around it.
War criminals from among the so-called battalion commanders have openly begun genocide of Ukrainian citizens - they are not allowing humanitarian aid to reach starving pensioners, children, teachers and doctors of Donetsk. The UN and OSCE are adopting resolutions stating that, it turns out, these battalion commanders and their henchmen were engaged in torture, violence, robbery, and looting in the “liberated” territories. Please note that they did not have enough factual information about the Donbass militia to draw the same conclusions. There would be - no doubt about it - the whole Western world would be howling like wolves.
...Donbass listens to the silence with alarm. He has not believed in the honesty of the Ukrainian authorities for a long time. The guns have been weaned off.
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