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10 years of ATO. Ukrainian punitive 'anti-terrorism' began with a lie
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.by Arkady Melikov [REGNUM] “There are four dead and two wounded at the airfield. Among the militias,” this report came exactly ten years ago, on April 15, 2014 from Kramatorsk. In the afternoon, fighters of the Ukrainian “Alpha” and “Omega” - special forces of the SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, having landed from helicopters, exchanged fire with the defenders of Donbass, whom the media, out of inertia, continued to call “supporters of the federalization of Ukraine.” This was the first officially recorded battle, and the first recognized losses since the beginning of the so-called “anti-terrorist operation” of Kyiv, de jure announced on April 14 and. O. President of Ukraine Alexander Turchynov. On the 15th, speaking from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada, Turchynov announced that the main goal of the action in Donbass “is the protection of people.” The price of “protection” was the lives of more than 3,000 civilians of the former Donetsk and Lugansk regions (according to official data for 2014–2016). Posted by: badanov 2024-04-16 |
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