‘They sent tanks and planes here to fight whom? Ordinary citizens.’

‘We didn’t go to West Ukraine to fight with tanks and planes. They came to us, but we’re somehow to blame,’ says Yuri Filippov, head of sales at a bakery in Lugansk.

In 2014, the ukrainian terrorists shelled the bakery, it couldn’t operate for over a month. He cannot understand how the ukrainian forces could fire on civilians. ‘They sent tanks and planes here to fight whom? Ordinary citizens.’