Shreds of War: Fates from the Donbas Frontline 2014-2019

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Foreword ................................................................................................ 9
Postscriptum ........................................................................................ 15
Preface by Ildi Eperjesi ......................................................................... 17
Preface by Oleksandr Kachura.............................................................. 19
1 Counterpropaganda Ukrainian Style: The Sound of
Trembits Will Be Heard Even in Donetsk ................................ 21
2 Food Comes from Volunteers, and the Ammunition
Comes from the Ukrainian Army .............................................. 29
3 How Volunteers in Western Ukraine Help the Army and
the Refugees ................................................................................. 35
4 Avdiivka: Russia, Enough Is Enough. Don’t Shell Us. We
Do Not Want to Join the “DPR” ................................................ 41
5 In the Gray Zone You Are Either Abandoned or Live in
the Crossfire .................................................................................. 47
6 The Lugansk Banana Republic: How Is It Different from
Donetsk and Why the Zolote Checkpoint Will Never Be
Opened .......................................................................................... 59
7 “I Only Call It Forced Deportation” .......................................... 65
8 What Made Putin Drop Dead .................................................... 71
9 “Our Blood Is Like Water for Them” ........................................ 75
10 “Life Has Changed Dramatically but No One Cares about
It.” The Man before Whose Eyes the War Took Place Told
Us What It Looks Like................................................................. 83
11 “Donetsk Is the Same and the People Are the Same but
the Situation Is Distressing” ....................................................... 91
12 An Icon on the Bulletproof Vest, Black Cat and Puppies.
What Helps Ukrainian Troops Survive under Avdiivka ....... 976
13 Nine Myths about Shirokino Ranging from Ghostlike
Local Residents to the “Objective” Observers of the
OSCE ........................................................................................... 103
14 A Militant of “DPR”: The Ukrainians Are Worse than the
Chechens and the Taliban! They Pray to Their Bandera
Portrait and Push Us to Moscow ............................................. 111
15 “Ravlik” Bogdan Chaban: The Terrorists Do Everything
So That the Residents of Donetsk Become Partisans ............ 117
16 “I Am Not Sorry about the Civilians as They Are Guilty
Themselves.” A “Militiaman” Told Us about the Hazing,
and the Desire to Give Up ........................................................ 123
17 “I Presented the War in Its Reality” ........................................ 129
18 Paramedic “Spring”: It Is Not Scary to Save People under
Fire. It Is Scary to Sit at Home and Watch the News ............ 139
19 “The Moscow Patriarchate Is Convinced That Ukrainian
Priests Are Schimsmatic” ......................................................... 147
20 “We Do Not Need Peace on Russian Terms” ........................ 157
21 “It Is the Personal War of Putin and Russia Doesn’t Need
It” ................................................................................................. 167
22 “I’m Often Threatened Because I Am Ukrainian.” ............... 185
23 “The Local Residents Were Sitting in the Cellar. They
Were Afraid That We Would Eat Them.” .............................. 193
24 “There Are So Many Shattered Human Lives in the
Donbas”....................................................................................... 203
25 “Just for Spite—This Is the Mentality of the Residents of
Transcarpathia. It Is Helpful in the Fights in the Donbas” .. 211
26 “My Helmet Caught the Bullet Meant for Me. It Remained
in the Kevlar” ............................................................................. 221
27 “Although War Is War, Ethnic Hungarian Soldiers
Slaughtered a Pig on the Frontline” ........................................ 229
28 “History Taught Us That You Just Cannot Get Separated
from Russia Peacefully. Russia Is Russia”.............................. 2397
29 “Unless Ukraine and Georgia Combine Forces, It Is
Unlikely We Can Win This War” ............................................ 251
30 “If the Russians Occupy Ukraine, Then the Next Countries
to Be Occupied Will Be Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech
Republic” .................................................................................... 261
31 “People Have Discovered the Donbas for Themselves
Anew” ......................................................................................... 269
32 “Children Were Born Even during the World War” ............ 277
33 “I Buried My Whole Family” ................................................... 285
34 Why Do Hungarians Fight in the Donbas? ............................ 289
35 “Russia Has Forsaken Us. Nobody Needs Us” ..................... 297
36 The Grenade Exploded at Eye Level. The Time of the
Explosion Was Written with My Blood .................................. 309
37 “In Donetsk, Everyone Knows Where the Russian Military
Intelligence Lives and Where the FSB, the Federal Security
Service Is” ................................................................................... 321
38 “We See How People May Change When They Are United.
We Understand Now That We Can Assert Our Rights and
Our Human Dignity.” ............................................................... 333