What I don’t get is how can Russians still see it as a civil war? The truth came out by now: Strelkov, Motorola were Russians. The separatists were led and supplied by Russia. It was a war between Russia and Ukraine from the start. I once argued with a Russian man about it, I told him about fresh graves of Russian soldiers that Lev Schlosberg found in Pskov in 2014. He asked me: “If there are Russian troops in Ukraine, why didn’t BBC write about it?”. I didn’t know, so I checked as soon as I had internet access, and BBC did write about it... So I don’t see how can anyone sincerely believe that this was ever a Ukrainian internal conflict. Egor Holmogorov said: “For our sacred mission, the whole country should lie [about our soldiers fighting in Donbas]”. And I get the feeling that’s what exactly what people do.
What I don’t get is how can Russians still see it as a civil war? The truth came out by now: Strelkov, Motorola were Russians. The separatists were led and supplied by Russia. It was a war between Russia and Ukraine from the start. I once argued with a Russian man about it, I told him about fresh graves of Russian soldiers that Lev Schlosberg found in Pskov in 2014. He asked me: “If there are Russian troops in Ukraine, why didn’t BBC write about it?”. I didn’t know, so I checked as soon as I had internet access, and BBC did write about it...
So I don’t see how can anyone sincerely believe that this was ever a Ukrainian internal conflict. Egor Holmogorov said: “For our sacred mission, the whole country should lie [about our soldiers fighting in Donbas]”. And I get the feeling that’s what exactly what people do.