ESW Eurasia Editor: The Scars of Donetsk, 11 Years Under Siege
Donbass People of Hardened Steel
ESW Eurasia Editor Stanislav Krapivnik posted a video with his thoughts about the criminal shelling of civilians in Donetsk, the capital of the Donbass, over 11 years. The video was filmed the same weekend Stas visited the nearby war-torn city of Gorlovka on Sunday April 27, 2025, shortly after a NATO-provided Ukrainian artillery round attack on that city's marketplace killed one civilian and severely wounded his wife.
Stas' video also includes the 2022 Russian patriotic song Donbass is With Us (Russia is With Us and So is God).
See also: The Duran Discusses the Russian Summer Offensive with ESW Eurasia Editor Stanislav Krapivnik
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As the people of Moscow and across Russia today remember the price paid in millions of lives to defeat Nazism, we ask our readers to say a prayer for the civilians still suffering on both sides of the front lines in the Ukraine.