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This has come to me from the independent Donbass region. The Western media provides nothing but disinformation about this area of the world as part of the ongoing demonization of Russia.I am surprised that Russian intelligence did not discover in advance the Obama regime's coup against the Ukrainian government. I continue to believe that the Russian government made a mistake refusing the breakaway republics requests to be re-incorporated into Russia like Crimea, but I understand that Putin was counting on his refusal to calm the fear of a "revanchist Russia" that Washington was infusing into Europeans. Putin's strategy made sense, but it failed because Europe hasn't the capability of foreign policy independence. Western Europe did not lose its independence to Nazi Germany. Europe lost its independence to Washington. It was the US that defeated Europe and reduced Europe to vassal states of Washington's empire.The links provided by Chopov below will give you English language reports from that part of the world where Washington, enabled by the EU, continues to provoke violence against Russian people.My name is Alexander Chopov and I am the founder of the Donbass Truth Channel. Our goal is to give the people of Donbass, Crimea and South-East Ukraine a voice in English. We don't just report the news, or show video reels of suffering.For example, in our very first videoBut that truth would have made it very hard for Western media to demonize them - after all that would mean that they share the same democratic and freedom-loving values as the people in the West.We currently have 15 videos and are working on new ones. They are from Donbass, Crimea and Moscow.Here is a link to our video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0STzxJ_Jw4 We also have lighter videos, like this one, where we, with hard-hitting facts, but light-heartedly, make fun of the demonization of Russia in Western media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezp5X2CWH7s So, I would like to ask you, and your organization to help share our work with your readers, followers and subscribers, so that together we can getSincerely, Alexander Chopov alexchopov@gmail.com +79150555058 https://www.facebook.com/DonbassTruth/?fref=ts