13-åriga Faina har levt i krig i 8 år. Hon vill berätta sanningen för människor i Amerika som inte vet något om Donbass.
FAINA SAVENKOVA – I WANTED AMERICANS TO KNOW THE TRUTH
For 13-year-old Faina Savenkova, war is no game, but a terrifying daily reality she has faced for eight long years. Two weeks ago, I first wrote about Faina, the child-writer from eastern Ukraine. She has been surrounded by war since she was just five years old. She first began writing about it when she was ten, as a way to cope with the daily fear of bombardment.
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In the west, most people seem to believe that the war in Ukraine began in February, 2022, when Russian forces first crossed the border. And mainstream media makes the war sound simplistic and two-dimensional, like a comic book, with “bad guys” and “good guys.” As though Russians are Orcs from Mordor, and President Vladimir Putin is an evil madman who invaded Ukraine for no reason other than his seething hatred for humanity and his desire for world domination.
As they say, truth is the first casualty of war.
In reality, many of the people living in eastern Ukraine begged Putin to intervene for years before he finally relented. And during those years, the people of Donbas lived in their basements as Ukrainian nationalists, who idealize mass-murderers like Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich, bombed their homes, churches, schools, markets and other civilian places. The Russian-speaking residents of eastern Ukraine have been under attack by Ukrainian forces, backed by the US and NATO, ever since the Maidan coup which ripped Ukraine asunder in 2014. Just last week, Russian forces finally secured the entire region of Lugansk, wresting it out of Ukrainian control. But the war rages on in Donetsk and in other parts of eastern Ukraine, and civilians continue to die, many of them children.
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True, the media forgot to mention that Ukraine has been killing civilians in Donbas for eight years. I don’t know what Nazism means to Americans. To me, it’s lack of freedom, prohibition to speak your mind, the worship of Bandera and Hitler, the shelling of peaceful cities, the killing of children. That’s Nazism.
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How do you feel about the US and NATO “defending” Ukraine?
I don’t think that they are defending Ukraine. Handing them weapons is not helping them, because Ukrainian soldiers are dying. Not American or NATO soldiers. So, this isn’t supporting them, it’s sending an entire nation to its death.
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What do you think about Russia’s “special military operation”?
When I signed a letter from 100 fiction writers in support of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine, many people condemned me. Both then and now, I have no doubts about the rightness of this decision. Ukraine is killing children and women. They shoot at kindergartens, schools and homes, and people are dying because of it. And the only country that can save us is Russia.
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How do you feel about your country, the Lugansk People’s Republic, gaining independence?
To me, it’s something which has already happened.
https://www.donbass-insider.com/2022...now-the-truth/