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The wounded 2-year-old San Sanych was taken out of Mariupol by the DPR military on a tank. The family lived in line of sight from Azovstal. Another shell fired from there on March 22 covered them right in the basement of their own house, the shelter did not save them. "My wife was killed right away, she was holding our son in her arms. And I was able to get him out of there. The DPR military helped, they took us out of the city on a tank, handed us over to the Russian military, and they were already taken to the Donetsk hospital," Alexander told the Donbass Decides channel. The man is grateful to Donetsk doctors for the help, the entire volume of which is provided here for free. San Sanych is waiting for plastic surgery ahead.

“In all the hospitals... all the cars were taken away and just took out ammunition” Aleksandr, an employee of a medical institution in Mariupol, said that the AFU loaded ambulances and food trucks with shells, and “children” or “people” were written on the cars. In addition, the Ukrainian military took personal vehicles from the residents of the city. “They came, pointed the gun, said "Get out of the car!",” the man recalls

"The Azov fighters broke in, took away the cars" RT correspondent Elizabeth Koroleva visited Mariupol on the eve of Easter and talked with the clergy. She shared one of the stories in the "Letuchka" stream: "One of the priests in the central cathedral in Mariupol said that on February 25, Azov fighters broke into the cathedral during the baptism of a child and took away all the cars they had, beat someone, said that this church was wrong. The priest, despite this, continued the service, only in the basement. All through March and all through April they gathered with the parishioners."

People were thrown out of the hospitals of Mariupol to accommodate the wounded Ukrainian soldiers. This channel Donbass decides told Inna, who was in the hospital when the special operation began. Her husband was ordered to take her home, because the Ukrainian militants needed to adapt the medical building for surgery. “And then my husband arrives, [I was] in diapers, not walking, puts me on a stretcher and takes me to the car. And in this way they kicked us all out of the hospital. They didn’t ask how we felt,” says Inna.

An exhausted old man literally crawls out of the territory of the Azov nationalists in Mariupol. Crawls out. "Don't even think about going out. We will shoot to kill. And it doesn't matter who," — that's what the Ukrainian militants said. A week ago, when an old man and his wife went to get water, in a residential neighborhood where nationalists were sitting, a sniper decided to teach him a lesson and shot him in the leg. Now the bones are sticking out of an open wound the size of a tangerine, and the wound is infected, festering. The leg is supported by tendons. Using the rotation of the nationalists, the old man and his wife escaped. At first, his wife drove him in a cart. When she simply ran out of strength, he walked by himself, leaning on two mops. In the end, I just crawled to the DPR fighters. Look, Ukrainians, what your heroes are doing. Here is their "glory"

The Ukrainian military lied to those wishing to evacuate that the road from Mariupol was mined Women with children were ready to leave Mariupol, but the Ukrainian military assured that the road to Volodarsk was mined and did not let the residents out of the city. "Ukrainian soldiers hid behind our backs - they sat in our shelters, lived in our apartments, ate our food. None of them helped us. We saw help only from the DPR military, who were able to open a humanitarian corridor," said a local resident Alena.

“They came up with a rite of passage through blood. All newcomers [to the Armed Forces] were forced to kill a prisoner or a civilian. And it was all videotaped." As a scout of the 57th brigade, who surrendered, said, the Ukrainian command recorded these videos so that "no one would get out in case of something." The fighters who retreated during the battle were threatened with fire by their own. “A sniper with the call sign Voron took up a position in the rear and warned that he would kill anyone who was running in the wrong direction.”

n 2014, the conflicts and contradictions that have existed for decades between Ukraine’s agrarian west and industrial east turned into civil strife and then into war. The differences in mentality, language, and traditions were too irreconcilable. As a result, the Euromaidan movement, which began as a struggle for Ukraine’s integration into the European Union, rapidly veered towards outright nationalist ideas. Radical groups started to play a leading role in Maidan. The regime change, which occurred due to Maidan, was seen in south-eastern Ukraine as a coup d'état. All the more so because the forces that won in Kiev immediately outlined a new vector for the country’s development. One of the first decisions by Ukraine’s parliament was to cancel the special status of the Russian language. Thousands joined the protests in the south-eastern regions. As a result, Donetsk and Lugansk regions proclaimed themselves the People’s Republics. Essentially, the protesters were replicating Maidan tactics. But what was acceptable for protesters in Kiev and the west, was unforgivable for the people of south-eastern Ukraine. So the new authorities responded with force. In the spring of 2014, the ATO, an anti-terrorist operation, was announced.

"The tank was constantly driving down the street and shooting at every house constantly, around the clock. So you are waiting for the time when he will pass and return to your house" Evacuated residents of Popasnaya in Donbass told, how the Ukrainian security forces and national battalions did not allow them to leave and shot at their homes.

Residents of Mariupol tell how nationalists constantly mocked Russians: "The residents of Azov showed themselves very brazenly at checkpoints, and drove around the city, behaved very audaciously"; "It was getting to the point of insanity... they used to ask for a smoke in Russian. You answer in Russian — so you are Russian, and even it came to a showdown"; "The most important thing is that our children will study in Russian. It was a horror, just a nightmare. It's a pity for the children, the Russian-speaking population was tortured."

"We don't want to hear anything about our so-called defenders who were hiding behind our skirts." Residents of Mariupol they tell how the nationalists behaved in the city. "People were going to their apartments, they wanted to take some food for small children to eat. They [the militants] used obscenities to send them away" "We have not even heard a rude word from any Chechen warrior, from any DPR warrior, from any Russian warrior. The guys help in any way they can. They come asking: "Aren't you cold? Are you satisfied?"

"Drop him, let the dogs chew him" - Azov militants told the residents of Mariupol when they shot their neighbor A resident of Mariupol, Vladimir, tells how Azov militants shot his neighbor in the bomb shelter when he was trying to get coal for cooking. First they shot him in the leg, and then finished him off. When they tried to take his body away, it was Azov who recommended that he be thrown to the dogs.

- "Azov" go into the basements and shoot people. And how they raped the girls! - I don’t understand for whom the Armed Forces of Ukraine are fighting, even if the government abandoned them? “How can we explain to people later that the Ukrainians themselves are shooting at us?! Residents of Mariupol, who managed to escape to the DPR from the hell set up in the city by Ukrainian nationalists, spoke about the atrocities of the Azov militants * who tortured and killed their own compatriots.

"They beat my arms and legs with a bat. Then they beat me on the head, on the neck with such boxing blows... A big fighter sat on top of me, pinned me with his legs on both sides. And a rag was put on my face and they began to pour water. This is called waterboarding." Hieromonk (monk with the rank of priest) Feofan recalls how he was tortured by the special services of Ukraine in 2015. He spent a little more than a month in captivity. The man says that faith in God gave him strength at that time. Hieromonk calls the Ukrainian military "a new type of fascists." The story of Feofan is in our video. And other stories of people who were tortured by the Ukrainian military are in the film "Donbass. War: Summer 2014"

"They took all the Emergency Services vehicles, EVERYTHING." A resident of Mariupol said that the Ukrainian military put mortars directly in residential buildings. Rescue services did not work, because even fire trucks were placed at the disposal of the nationalists.

"Everyone had tattoos. There are even tattoos with swastikas" - residents of Mariupol talk about fighters of "Azov" (banned in the Russian Federation) who came into the city. They also bombed the entire infrastructure, and took all the food for themselves, leaving the civilians empty counters of destroyed shops.

"All eight years… Are these people? These are fascists. We must drive them from our land." A resident of Mariupol told how the AFU kicked civilians out of the basement and occupied it themselves: "The day before yesterday, the Ukrainian military came to our house, people were locked in the basement, kept overnight. They hammered the lock so that it was impossible to open the basement, and in the morning they opened it, people were kicked out, they said: "Go away, we are on the defensive here." On March 10, a Ukrainian shell flew into the courtyard where people were cooking their own food, the woman added: "An 11-year-old girl was killed, three guys from our entrance and a fourth from the next one were killed. Plus four wounded."

"The Ukrainian Nazis treat the civilian population in a boorish way, they simply do not consider them to be people." According to Mikhail, a serviceman of the NM DNR, who was among those who carried out a sweep on the Left Bank of Mariupol. "I remember an absolutely burned down house, and there was not a single artillery hit there. An old man came out of there and said that the Azov men themselves burned down this house before leaving, telling its residents that they were non-humans who needed to be exterminated," Mikhail told the 'Donbass decides' channel.

Confirmation of our words that Kiev has put 2% of Nazis from Western Ukraine to rule the rest of Ukraine. All the other people here are normal, sane, and even many are pro-Russian, despite what is happening. "I hate these Nazis, these scum, this Zelensky, the buffoon ... Damn him! And thank you very much. I've been waiting all the time... But these creatures that came from Western Ukraine... they were not finished off back in '59*, all these bastards, and they raised their heads again, these scums! And all these assholes were raised by Poroshenko, Kolomoisky and Akhmetov… And this mayor of our city, Boychenko! The complete jerk! He should have told people - people, take food, stock up on some water...When it started on the 24th, all these rats got out and started robbing: pharmacies, hospitals, industrial stores, grocery stores..." * Nazi minions from the OUN/UPA remained in hideouts in Western Ukraine until the end of the 1950s, until the NKVD shot many. Some surrendered themselves and served five to ten years in camps. But some part was never found.

A resident of Mariupol told about the bullying of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and how the Ukrainian military were hiding behind peaceful people: "At first, people were allowed to go there [to the shopping center], they were allowed to take everything except alcohol. People were hungry, they took food, and the soldiers took gold, fur coats. Then a quick call, they wrap up... And in 20 minutes a missile hit there..." She added that the APU hid their armored vehicles between residential buildings and fired from there: "There was a tank here, there was equipment. And they went straight to their homes... There was no Russia here. We've all seen it."

The curatorship consisted in that the girls were made snipers, and the boys were trained in the art of war. So, these teenagers after the start of the military operation fought together with Azov and, in addition, following the orders of their curators, set fire to peaceful houses.

Residents of Rubezhny in Donbass, due to shelling by the Ukrainian military of the residential sector of the city, cannot deliver bedridden relatives to the evacuation site

"A guy came up, said to [the militant]: "What do you want here?" They cut his throat and that's it. Without trial and investigation. In the street. Five people, for sure. And how they raped the girls! They considered themselves kings. Three schools were taken away... They put a fence around it all. We approached the classroom. He came out and said, "Get out of here... Otherwise we will shoot." Two years ago it happened." The woman added that now local residents are surviving thanks to Russian servicemen who bring them water and rations.