‘It was the murder of people, genocide!

‘It was the murder of people, genocide! Azov did it, believe me, I'm telling you on camera, Azov did it.’ These are the words of Igor Popov, a resident of Mariupol.

The DPR and LPR have lived under shelling by the Ukrainian army for the past eight years. In 2014, they did not recognise the outcome of Maidan, and Kiev responded by firing on the region’s inhabitants.

As a result, people in Donbass became a human shield for Ukrainian nationalist battalions. Civilians could not leave their basements, being targets for snipers who occupied locals’ houses. While some punitive units drowned protests in blood, others kidnapped people for torture. The captives were taken to a secret prison in Mariupol, ‘the Library’.

See our short doc to find out what horrors people in Donbass have gone through over the past eight years.

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