As part of a wider drive to expand the media presence of the Donbass republics, The Donetsk People’s Republic has set up a phone-line as part of an effort to help unify Donbass.
Unsurprisingly, the phone-line has been receiving calls from many areas outside of the two Donbass republics including from Odessa, Kharkov and Ternopol.
The Donetsk People’s Republic has entered the war for hearts and minds by launching a new television and radio broadcaster. The transmissions will help explain developments, goals and achievements in Donbass, both in the two republics and to regions like Kharkov and Dnipropetrovsk, where many people also seek to end rule from the fascist regime in Kiev.
Donetsk People’s Republic leader Alexander Zakharchenko spoke of the project in the following way,
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | February 28, 2017 Moscow refused to join issue with the US State Department’s strident statement on Sunday blaming Russia for the renewed violence in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. Washington had stressed that it was “imperative” that the “combined-Russian separatist forces” in Donbass halted their attacks […]
The Russian Interfax news agency is reporting that Boris Gryzlov, Russia’s point man in the Ukrainian conflict, has today issued a warning to Kiev that Russia will take unspecified action unless the coal blockade is lifted.
This follows warnings from Moscow that Russia will not allow a humanitarian catastrophe in the Donbass and from the authorities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics that they will enact a wholesale nationalisation of all Ukrainian owned plants and businesses within the Republics’ territories on 1st March 2017 unless the blockade is lifted.
Since September of 2015, a floating Russian rouble has been the official currency of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Today, the other republic of Donbass, the Lugansk People’s Republic made the same move.
Even prior to today, the rouble was generally the most common currency used in Lugansk in the daily lives of ordinary people.
Three years after the violent coup on Ukraine’s Maidan left the delicate cultural and political balance in the former Soviet republic in tatters, the Kiev regime has little to show to justify itself to the world.
At least 10,000 people have died in the regime’s war against its own people in Donbass, the country’s GDP has declined by more than half, and promised anti-corruption crackdowns and visa-free travel with the EU have failed to materialize.
Of the many evil exercises in social engineering to be implemented by the fascists of the 1930s and 1940s, the idea that civilians had an obligation to ‘turn in’ enemies of the state and inversely face penalties for sheltering the targets of fascist regimes, remains one of the most eerie.
The current fascist regime in Kiev has implemented similar techniques. This time they are using the internet to encourage violence and terrorism. A hateful website called Mirotvorets has been operating in Ukraine since 2014.
After Sean Spicer’s statement regarding Crimea a few weeks ago, it is clear that the West, including Donald Trump, are still confused about Crimea and it’s history with Russia. Russia’s Foreign Ministry responded to the White House statement in kind.
During an overnight offensive that yet again violated the Minsk II agreements, forces loyal to the fascist regime in Kiev took control of a water filtration plant in Donetsk. The move bears an eerie resemblance to when Al-Qaeda recently poisoned the water supply flowing to Damascus, causing a major crisis.
The leaders of the Donetsk People’s Republic have called on the international community to condemn this move.
