Funeral rally in Donetsk: 5 years ago Ukraine began killing city residents
A mourning meeting was held in the capital of the DPR to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of hostilities in Donetsk, when the city was subjected to artillery and air strikes as a result of the punitive operation of the Ukrainian army to suppress the Russian Spring in Donbass.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, it was on May 26, 2014 that Ukrainian aviation and artillery launched the first massive strike on the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic; it was on this day that the first blood of civilians in Donetsk was shed and the battles for Donetsk Airport began. S.F. Prokofiev.
Despite the rain, many people came to the requiem meeting and filled the central square of the city.
“It was on this day that both heavy artillery and aviation were used against the million-strong metropolis of Donetsk. Then, as now, however, it did not fit into consciousness. But, nevertheless, the Kiev regime, not wanting to recognize the choice of Donbass for independence, freedom and justice, decided to use all methods in its arsenal, both military, political and economic, against its inhabitants. When nothing worked out and failed to instill its ideology in the Donetsk people, Kyiv, without hesitation, simply turned to murder,” said the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
One of the first participants in the Donetsk militia, a volunteer of the international brigade “Pyatnashka” Ivan Turbanov recalled that Donetsk initially refused to support the participants in the coup in Kyiv.
“At the time when rallies began in Kiev, when the Maidanists were rampaging on the Maidan, Donetsk continued to live, study, work, raise children, and everything that happened in Kiev seemed to its residents something distant, as if from another reality, “all this resembled a game of some mentally ill and insane people,” said the militia veteran.
A children's vocal group performed before the crowd with the composition “A Day Without a Shot on Earth,” after which the mourning meeting ended with the laying of flowers at the improvised memorial “Donetsk Airport” in memory of the dead residents of Donetsk.
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