Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

According to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and the Democratic Initiatives Foundation conducted in February 2014, 33% of the residents of the Donetsk region and 24% of the population of the Lugansk region were in favor of joining Russia. In the same survey, 79.7% of the Donetsk region respondents and 72.7% of the Luhansk region respondents were in favour of Ukraine and Russia remaining as two independent states.

The lack of a majority support did not prevent Russia from invading an independent state and occupying parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The consequences of the Russian occupation were horrific for these territories — from economic recession to bans on the learning of the Ukrainian language to political repressions.

In 2022, Russia continued further by launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As a result of Russian mass shelling, many cities and villages in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions were simply wiped off the face of the earth.

Culture suppression and even appropriation if suppression doesn't work... then slowly ... slowly suppress it.

Russians are using their language as a tool to conduct genocide and erase cultures: Just look at what they did in the eastern part of their own country.. people forgot their language and define themselves as russians..

Thats russia!

When they placed a sign "Russian poet" on the statue of Taras Shevchenko in occupied territory.. I could only weep..

This is what russia does. russia got no culture of their own; they steal everything and claim as their own. parasites.