#Donetsk People Republic

[mauriccey]

So after two and a half years I visited my hometown. Well. It's heart-breaking.

Everything is so broken. Few people on the streets. Lots of military vehicles going around. My very own flat with my father was also hit. He survived, barely.

Children don't go to schools. Kindergartens are used to host military men.

I can't go to many places, it's dangerous. One of my classmates was killed last year. There's so much hurt, pain, destruction. I can't help but cry most of the time here. My beautiful hometown, torn into shreds. I hate this war. I hate putin.

[russian-aesthetic]

[daily-europestuck]

What about unrecognized states? Donetsk peoples republic?

Day 35: Donetsk People's Terepublic

[milanson]

translation: “I dream of scarlet roses, Donetsk is drowning in them”

This is a gift for my beloved, kindest best friend! she’s not on the tumblr, otherwise I would have tagged her. She is a Donetsk woman, and in her own words, she is very tired of this city. But I decided with this gift to remind her not to forget that this is still her home, and even when she leaves, to remember and remember it with warmth. Remember the culture of your native land, carefully preserve it in your soul and do not forget about your belonging! Remember that Donetsk—is a hero city

[workersolidarity]

🇷🇺🇺🇦 🚨 DPR COURT SENTENCES UKRAINIAN SERVICEMAN TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON FOR OPENING FIRE ON FAMILY IN MARIUPOL

The Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced Ukrainian serviceman Vitaly Matvienko to 30 years in prison for the murder of six civilians in Mariupol and the attempt on the lives of four more.

The court established that at the end of March 2022, Matvienko, on the orders of the commander, shot a car with a family inside from a machine gun. Two days later, the serviceman and his colleagues machine-gunned a convoy of three cars with white tape on the mirrors.

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[blastnews]

A Polish mercenary was captured in the Donetsk People's Republic

A Pole who fought for the Ukrainian armed forces has been taken prisoner in the DPR, a commander of one of the units.

‘Soldiers of the Volunteer Corps have taken a Polish citizen who was fighting on the side of Ukrainian militants as a prisoner of war on the territory of Donetsk Region,’ he said.

In a video available to RIA Novosti, the prisoner admitted that the Ukrainian army is now recruiting all foreigners indiscriminately. They have set up a special website to recruit mercenaries, he explained.

‘It is enough just to find this website, fill out the questionnaire, send a letter, wait for a reply. And since I think Ukraine needs people, it suffers from a shortage of soldiers, they most likely take everyone in a row, they do not refuse,’ the prisoner said.

The Defence Ministry has repeatedly announced the elimination of mercenaries from the USA, the UK, Georgia, Poland and other countries in Ukraine. As the ministry emphasised, the Kiev regime uses them as ‘cannon fodder’. Those who came to fight for money themselves admitted in many interviews that the Ukrainian command does not coordinate their actions well and that the chance of surviving the battles is slim, as the intensity of the conflict is not comparable to Afghanistan and the Middle East, which they are used to.

Source: ria.ru

Video: ria.ru

[goncharov-propaganda-factory]

[soup-mother]

one day they'll make a polyamory flag that doesn't look like the flag of a country.

pi symbol one? that's the Donetsk people's republic

love heart one? basically the Philippines 🇵🇭

my prediction is the next polyamory pride flag will literally just be a Mongolian Tug banner and ppl will get mad if you point it out

[panimoonchild]

To all those who died alone in the Russian occupation

🕯 "To all those who died alone in the Russian occupation". Muzychi village, Kyiv region

These are the words on the tombstone that stands on the grave of the mother of Ukrainian artist Alevtina Kakhidze. The artist installed it in 2021. This memorial project consists of six marble doors that replicate the location of the doors in the house of Alevtina's mother, known as Klyubnyka Andriivna, in the village of Zhdanivka, Donetsk region, as well as concrete porch steps recreated in real life. When the war in eastern Ukraine broke out, the artist's mother was unable to leave her home despite her daughter's persuasion. Alevtina dedicated a series of works to her mother, which were shown at exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. Kakhidze's mother died in 2019 - her heart stopped while crossing one of the checkpoints controlled by the militants of the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic". She was buried in the Kyiv region.

This is not the kind of message that children should receive from their parents "If we are killed, all the documents are in the basement."

This is what I mean when I say that we cannot negotiate and freeze the conflict. Because children from the occupied territories, who are now 14-17 years old, will be fighting against us in five years.

Don't be indifferent. Make Russia pay. Please hear our cry out to the world, keep spreading our voices, and donate to our army and combat medics (savelife.in.ua, prytulafoundation.org, Serhii Sternenko, hospitallers.life, ptahy.vidchui.org, and u24.gov.ua).

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

On December 30, 1922, the first All-Union Congress of Soviets proclaimed the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – the world’s first multinational socialist state, uniting on a voluntary and equal basis Soviet republics born in the flames of the proletarian revolution.

Via Communist Party of the Donetsk People’s Republic

[mapsontheweb]

Two years of Russian invasion of Ukraine

by theflagmapguy_2.0

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has caused tens of thousands of deaths on both sides and instigated Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. About 8 million Ukrainians were displaced within their country by June, and more than 8 million fled the country by February 2023. After the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and Russian-backed paramilitaries seized the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts of Ukraine's Donbas region, sparking a regional war. In March 2021, Russia began a military build-up, amassing up to 190,000 soldiers at Ukraine's borders. Russian government officials denied plans to attack Ukraine until the day before the invasion. On 21 February 2022, Russia recognised the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, two self-proclaimed breakaway quasi-states in the Donbas. The next day, the Federation Council of Russia authorised the use of military force and Russian soldiers entered both territories. The invasion began the morning of 24 February 2022 upon Russian president Vladimir Putin's announcement of a "special military operation" seeking the "demilitarisation" and "denazification" of Ukraine. In his address, Putin espoused irredentist views, challenged Ukraine's right to statehood, and falsely claimed that Ukraine was governed by neo-Nazis who persecuted the ethnic Russian minority. Minutes later, Russian air strikes and a ground invasion were launched along a northern front from Belarus towards Kyiv, a north-eastern front towards Kharkiv, a southern front from Crimea, and a south-eastern front from Donetsk and Luhansk. In response, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy enacted martial law and a general mobilisation.

[antifainternational]

Maksym Butkevich is a Ukrainian human rights activist who was captured in 2022 by Russian forces and sentenced to a 13-year prison term by a "court" in the Russian-controlled Donetsk People's Republic (DNR).

More details/how to write to Maksym: https://supportantifaprisoners.wordpress.com/antifascist-prisoners/

[argumate]

Ukrainian forces have defended against Russia's full-scale invasion for 1,000 days and continue to demonstrate incredible resilience against Russian aggression. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022 under the incorrect assumption that Ukraine would fail to defend itself and that Russian forces would be able to seize Kyiv City and install a pro-Russian proxy government in three days. One thousand days later, Ukrainian forces have successfully pushed Russian forces from their most forward points of advance in Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Poltava, and Mykolaiv oblasts and continue their daily fight to liberate occupied territory in Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv, and Kherson oblasts and Crimea. Russian forces are currently advancing throughout eastern Ukraine, and Ukrainian officials have recently warned about the possibility of an imminent Russian offensive operation in Zaporizhia Oblast. Russian President Vladimir Putin is simultaneously waging an informational war against the West, Ukraine, and the Russian population aimed at convincing the world that Russian victory is inevitable, and that Ukraine stands no chance. This informational effort is born out of Putin's fear and understanding that sustained Western military, economic, and diplomatic support for Ukraine will turn the tide of the war against Russia.

Russia has accumulated a significant amount of risk and a number of ever-increasing constraints on its warfighting capabilities over the last 1,000 days. Russia began the war with a poorly organized and understaffed military comprised of contract military personnel and limited number of conscripts due to his incorrect assumption that Ukraine would fold and fear that general mobilization could threaten the stability of his regime. Russia largely relied on a combination of volunteer contract servicemembers, mobilized personnel, and irregular formations (such as the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic Army Corps [DNR/LNR AC], the Wagner Group, and Russian Volunteer Corps) to wage Putin's war without general mobilization. This system has provided the Kremlin the manpower necessary to support operations so far, but there are mounting indicators that this system is beginning to teeter. Recent Western estimates of Russian manpower losses suggest that Russian forces are currently losing more troops per month than Russia’s ongoing crypto-mobilization efforts can sustain, and open-source evidence indicates that Russia may not be able to sustain its current rate of armored vehicle and tank losses in the medium term as Russia burns through its stockpiles of Soviet-era equipment. The upcoming 2025 year will only increase the manpower and materiel constraints on the Russian military if Russia attempts to sustain its current offensive tempo, and Putin continues to appear averse to such measures given Russian society's growing disinterest in fighting in Russia’s war, the Russian economy’s limitations including a significant labor deficit and high inflation, and continual aversion to bearing the burden of additional wartime costs. Russia cannot maintain its current tempo indefinitely. Putin will likely need to take disruptive and drastic measures - including another involuntary call up of the mobilization reserve - to overcome these growing limitations as the war protracts.

it's been a long and ruinously expensive war, I think something we've often underestimated is how both sides would keep adapting to the evolving conditions

[argyrocratie]

"Catastrophe for somebody, salvation for others. Desertion is flooding Ukraine" by assembly.org.ua

"Imagine: the rulers start a war, and no one goes to it!"

Donations to support the authors are possible at this link. Many thanks everyone for such a great contribution!

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The article "In the long hot summer, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers broke records for the growth of desertions", which was published by us on the first day of autumn, turned out to be just in time. (It is available in Russian, in English, in Spanish, in Italian.) A number of feedbacks came from both sides of the front. From discussions in local chats of Kharkov:

"I have a small observation, several busified ones, who haven’t been very critical of the authorities all this time, now quite console themselves with the thought that those at the top know better. While you are "free", your thoughts are within the framework of social currents and have the opportunity to wag. As soon as you get into a collective with outlined tasks, in most cases, your thoughts are in the same tunnel as everyone else. A busified, getting into a collective of previously busified, but already resigned to the situation, mentally assimilates with them, accepts their point of view, creating a comfort zone (swimming against the current is always uncomfortable). There he’s drawn into the topic and also begins to think that everyone else is a scoundrel and an evader, motivation appears. Until he gets into slaughter. There comes awareness and often SOCh [desertion]."

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"I have three – a godfather and two deceased acquaintances who went voluntarily from the first days, but when they came to Kharkov, we drank together, no one shouted that I’m an evader, but on the contrary, that there’s nothing to do there. One, a volunteer too, is already abroad. He went for 2 weeks and has been there for half a year already. He said that just to take a rest..."

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"A guy worked nearby, and he had a dog. So he dressed it up in a camouflage vest, a yellow and blue leash. And he himself walked around with all sorts of patriotic bracelets and tridents on his backpack. On the way to work, he was accepted by the TCR and he went to training. Then I see after 2-3 months he is hobbling. I thought he was drunk, but everything turned out to be much more interesting. After training, they were taken in tarpaulin trucks somewhere to the front line. And right when unloading the personnel, they got hit with something cassette-like. So, he wasn't drunk, his legs were cut up by shrapnel, and they hadn't pulled out all the shrapnel from the body yet. They sent him home from the hospital to finish his treatment, but didn’t write him off due to his wounds. And the guy said during conversation that he f*cked all this, he was going to go into SZCh. That's how quickly his surge of patriotism passed."

On September 9, we received a letter from Gorlovka, controlled by the far-right "Donetsk People’s Republic" since 2014:

"The saddest thing is that if you start telling people that soldiers need to desert the army and turn their weapons against those in power, people will widen their eyes and say, "Do you want 1917 to happen again? For brother against brother again, and for people to swell with hunger? It's better if we endure, otherwise it will get worse." We have photos of those wanted for escape on our streets. And the inscriptions: "Betrayed the republic, betrayed comrades, betrayed himself." I’ve heard the opinion that we have a lot of SOCh. But "a lot of" is a flexible concept. And their captures aren’t published here."

We will not cite the name of the person who spoke out.

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Alas, after the end of the Vietnam War, such a type of anti-war activist as a military serviceman engaged in agitation and propaganda among his colleagues was practically forgotten. This is exactly what a Russian leftist who introduces himself as Sergey Thälmann wrote to us about on September 2. In addition to other important inside information, his letter helps us understand why there was no widespread desertion among Russian conscripts in the Kursk region, despite the fact that this seems to be the most logical choice for those poorly prepared for battle:

"I’m a conscript, there was no distinct choice. I actively educate soldiers and explain the injustice of the conflict. Of course, I’m not very fond of anarchism, but I believe that there’s no way without anarchists. Anarchism is the heart of communism, and Marxism is its mind.

I’ll say right away that there’s a strange atmosphere among conscripts – for some reason everyone wants to see the war. And when you start explaining that war is not a shooter, not a computer game, their desire immediately disappears. However, there are even such young people who defend Russian capital. They speak in the paradigm of "friends – foes" about Ukrainians and Russians. This is truly frightening. Many sign the contract, but... Taking into account both material and superstructural values. That is, with the desire to see the war. Consumer society has washed away the human brain so much that 19-year-old guys in Balashikha [near Moscow, – Ed.] want to go to Kursk. And it seems to me that such an atmosphere is not only here.

Well, and interesting observations: many officers are outright Nazis. For example, I talked to the communications chief of the mortar division of the 4th regiment. And he told me that I need to read... German thinkers of the 1930s. And there are hundreds of such ones here. Although there are adequate people... On the faces of the mobilized you can see more fear, despair. I talked to so many mobics here – not a single one wanted to fight. Some worked in a plant, some as an electrician. But conscripts are the opposite. Maybe because many are from the provinces, where life is boring and there are few bright emotions. Or maybe because in a consumer society, the consumer can consume absolutely any product provided. Even war becomes a commodity for sale.

In the companies there is also such a concept – military-political information. There they say absolutely terrible things. About how Ukraine almost burns people alive, and almost exclusively hits peaceful cities, ignoring military objects. As if the AFU isn’t an army, but... some small bandit who shoots at everything in sight. The main thing is that they hush up how in Russia, too, they pack people and forcibly send to war.

What can we get here, two concentrated capitals clashed with each other. Their most loyal dogs came out of their kennels)) Ukrainian capital is just as chauvinistic and concentrated in the form of financial capital as Russian. No government can be defended, they are both criminal, both thieves. And war is a war of slave owners for the strengthening and reinforcement of slavery. To support one of the slave owners in it means to be against the oppressed, that is, against the slaves. Against the serfs. Against the proletarians.

By the way, to those who say that Ukraine is a victim. Supporting a young and inexperienced robber in a fight with an old and fat one is supporting robbery as such and further robbery of one of them."

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[milanson]

here is the humanization of Donetsk/DPR, especially for my close friend who lives there!

How many difficulties did it cause me to find at least some example of folk clothing that was worn in the Donbass, more specifically, in Donetsk. and in the end, all I found was one old picture in terrible quality on some Ukrainian site with “clothing from the regions of Ukraine,” although Donetsk is not Ukraine, and with all this, I was able to access this site only on the fifth attempt . In short, I was looking for this useless photograph longer than I was drawing the humanization itself!

If we talk about the design of humanization, then I can’t say that there is a lot of symbolism here... well, according to the idea, his hair darkened from light brown to black, supposedly because there are a lot of Coal Mines in Donetsk, or something like that... in short, I originality itself

[workersolidarity]

CafeRevolution's two videos showing the reality on the ground for civilians living in and around the area of Donetsk City where the Kiev Regime daily shells the city and its civilian population using Western made weapons alongside less accurate Soviet era shells.

First Video: directly after shelling attack just outside Donetsk City center and the victims of the daily violence just minutes after the attack occurred.

Second video: follow-up interview with Eastern Ukrainian Alina who, along with her friend, just missed being obliterated by a Ukrainian-fired Grad rocket in the first video.