i am in the middle of slovyansk, the city from which the russian occupation of donetsk and luhansk regions began in 2014. today it may be surprising, but long before the war in the early 90s, among the voices that demanded independence for ukraine, one of the loudest and most noticeable was the voice of this region, the voice of donbass. in the spring of 1991, mass miners' strikes took hold. half of the industry, the miners protested against falling living standards and total shortages, they still kept relatively high wages, but for these money was simply impossible to buy anything. the miners' dissatisfaction was well heard in kyiv, where the strikers went to the meetings. in addition to economic demands, they advocated independence. and here's why. at that time, ukraine ranked second in the ussr in terms of production volumes, and its gdp, according to... approximate estimates , exceeded the then indicators of singapore and israel. therefore, the opinion took root among the population that it is worth separating from the union, stop feeding it, and the country will recover. the irony was

representatives of paramilitary formations controlled by russia took temporary illegal control of the city of slovyansktsk region. later, koshnir published a photo with the medal on his social networks. on the eve. after a full-scale invasion of the occupied territories of donetsk and luhansk regions, russia began mass mobilization, preparations for the offensive were underway, new regiments were formed based on the model and under the command of the russian army. kushnir, like siny, joined the newly created 109th regiment of the army of the occupied donetsk region. journalist ziyiv independent, who in... confidently speaks russian, called kushnir under the legend that he was a russian investigator and conducts its own investigation. i'm calling you about nicholas the blue, if you know. nicholas the blue? i know one. yes, i fought him. i know almost everything because the teams that were there took him near the naked girl. and i discovered a mother with small children. i actually wanted to shoot him then, but i didn't... well, they said that you even arranged an eye bet between this mykola, yes, yes, t

local cafe, but they literally said, don't you leave here, yes and but when i visited after like slovyanskdays days were released in the 14th year, i... felt that the city was already completely different, already, already, changes were already taking place, the way slavyansk is now, is it still russian, pro-russian, i mean, is it already now a completely ukrainian city, what are the residents like, what are their moods? look, i didn't conduct any sociological research, of course, but it's purely subjective, from my own experience i don't feel any problems in communicating in ukrainian, sometimes people answer you in russian, or if you shoot some... heroes, they ask for permission there them to speak russian, but i have never observed an aggressive reaction to the ukrainian language, and again, from my subjective observations, people who have been in the occupation are very different from those who have not been, that is, in relation to the ukrainian military, in relation to before the war, those who spent at least a couple of weeks in the russian occupation understand what and for what th

himself . sword sivyar and he has such a desire to go to druzhkivka, kostiantynivka, kramatorsk, slovyanske for a long time, and fortunately he does not manage to push through our defenses in the area so quickly chasovoy yar, but, if we understand correctly, then chas iv yar is already a city unsuitable for life at all, is there anyone left there at all? there are local residents, there are local residents, evacuation, well , it is almost not that it is not carried out, but there is a small number left, which people do not want to exterminate, but we also periodically record events when people are sometimes injured and die, well, there is a small number the number of people and those who want to at the moment, if it happens, then the military local administration is also there... these people are taken away, however it is also necessary to take into account the safety component for the evacuation, there are situations when people call or relatives and ask to go and pick up people with whom there has been no contact for a long time, and we perfectly understand that all those settlements, no

if we compare it with the 22nd year to some extent, then they almost came close to such cities as slovyansk this direction, they were pushed back , so create now, well , realistically, what they can do is create a threat if the defense forces fail to hold these key cities such as toretsk and uh, the times of yar, but it’s about the fact that, well, here the cities are close to each other, that is, if somewhere they use tactics to advance and create some traps for uh for certain cities there, then here it is already will be much more difficult to do, it is much more necessary in my opinion, more grouping of troops is required than they are using with... right now, as far as i understand, they have problems with that too, well anyway, ticks always it is easier to cut, the question is whether we have and will have the strength for this and means, but i’m just making a point, because here we still need to voice a number of very important questions, we’ll have time to voice them, but by the way , the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi, also the supreme commander, said that the additional w

near kostyantynivka and... in all these cities that are close by, namely druzhkivka, kramatorsk, slovyansk, that people should leave there. today, the enemy is really starting operations for striking the front-line zone, where not only ballistic cruise missiles are used, for example, but usually not those that are really expensive and need replenishment, namely the s-300, s-400, these are cabs, these are missile launchers. missile systems that hit up to 40-50 km, and the front-line konstantinivka, seridovo, for example, kramatorsk and other directions, this is already not far from the front, and they are within the reach of these means, and in fact they will all be suppressed so far, what i'm saying is just their need to suppress before they are deployed, or they haven't launched the rockets yet, or they haven't raised the beacons, this is the most effective way, but evacuation, it's really important, why, because the priority today is people's lives and... really no air defense systems that we have there, no accordingly, other fire means cannot 100% protect people in the same konstantinov

not succeed, the main goal has changed, their main direction is not the east as a whole, although slovyansk is not an exception, but pokrovsk, i i would say this today, well, the president of ukraine, i quote for them the priority, the pokrovsk direction and this city of pokrovsk. well, it seems that ukrainians already understand that this war is for a long time, and this is evidenced by the results of sociological surveys conducted by our sociologists. for example, the kyiv international institute of sociology and the national democratic institute conducted a survey among ukrainians, and their results showed that more than half of the citizens of our country believe that the war will continue for a long time. 57% of citizens of our country think so, 18% of them believe that the confrontation will drag on for another year or two, and 17% are convinced that the hostilities will last from two to 5 years, and 14% believe that the war will end in 6-12 months, and approximately every 13th ukrainian has a pessimistic view the prediction that the war will last more than 5 years, that's the story,

is located at a height, on the ridge, then the whole kramatorsk agglomeration, i.e. the cities of slovyanskdruzhkivka, kostyantynivka, oleksiivka, druzhkivka, they are in the river valley that will open, you can just see this valley from the ridge that starts in chasovoy yar, that is, if the russians take it, i will remind you now, they occupied the kanal microdistrict and cannot force the siver canal at the moment. donets donbass is such an obstacle, i almost said natural, it is man-made, this obstacle, and along this channel the defenders of ukraine have now taken up the defense, and if the russians go to these heights near the temporary ravine, it will open, well, first above all, fire control over kostiantynivka, which is already suffering from russian shelling significantly, but will suffer even more, that is, kostiantynka is next, if... i just, let me remind you that in the summer of the 23rd year also , victoria died in kramatorsk melina, then the enemy hit the restaurant, and there was also a terrible story, unfortunately, but literally 20 seconds, but i still, instead of giving out