Nine years ago, the Donetsk People's Republic declared independence. People said 'no' to the results of the Kiev Maidan and declared their right to speak Russian, to honor the memory of the victorious soldiers, but not Nazi accomplices. After that, Kiev launched full-scale military operations. Thousands of civilians were killed, including young children.

We have collected for you a selection of documentaries about how the DPR has lived for the last nine years:

Donbass War: Airport. Part 1. The fighting for the Donetsk airport began on May 26, 2014. Residents of the city call this date the day when the world ended. After the airport was occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, it became a constant source of tension.

Donbass War: Airport. Part 2. The documentary describes how the militia forces liberated the Donetsk airport from the Ukrainian invaders.

Donbass: I'm Alive! Mariupol residents had to survive under the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and even endure torture. They've all been through hell. Now people are happy that they are alive and believe in the best.

Dr Donbass: Behind the Frontline. Volunteer doctors go to the firing line to evacuate the wounded. They say it can be scary under shelling. But the most important thing for them is to fulfill their duty.

Water: Donetsk's Lifeline. As a result of shelling by Ukrainian artillery, residents of Donetsk have been living without water for almost a year. How do people survive?

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The BRICS group, comprising the world’s five major developing economies, has overtaken the Group of Seven (G7) by making up a larger share of the global gross domestic product (GDP) based on purchasing power parity, data compiled by Acorn Macro Consulting, a UK-based macroeconomic research firm, shows.

According to the findings, the bloc of BRICS countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, contributes 31.5% of the world’s GDP. Meanwhile, the G7, consisting of the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the UK, and considered the most advanced economic bloc of countries on the planet, add up to 30.7%.

The gap between the two groups is expected to grow, analysts say, as China and India are experiencing robust economic growth, and more countries are interested in joining BRICS.

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Referring to the munitions that the Brits are going to send to Ukraine, the UK Ministry of Defence announced "…that any impact to personal health and the environment from the use of depleted uranium munitions is likely (oh, how they love this word) to be low."

Apparently, they tested these munitions on the Skripals’ cat and ducks in Salisbury ponds.

Now, allow me to describe what depleted uranium in munitions really means, and without using the phrase, “highly likely,” that is their favourite expression.

First, a little history. It is most indicative that the Nazis were the first to use these types of munitions in armour-piercing rounds. Reich Minister of Armaments and Military Production in Nazi Germany Albert Speer recalled that in summer 1943, the import of wolframites from Portugal was suspended, which created a critical situation for munitions with a solid armour-piercing core. This is why he ordered the use of uranium cores for this type of munitions.

In the latter half of the 20th century, NATO used Nazi developments in arms and began to produce and use depleted uranium munitions in its operations on a large scale. The aggression against Yugoslavia was the most tragic example of this.

At this point, we will turn to modern factology.

As I have said more than once, Italian army service personnel in a NATO contingent were largely involved in operations that used depleted uranium munitions. We have accessible statistics:

Italian soldiers in Yugoslavia were in charge of the territory where more than half of all depleted uranium munitions (17,237 rounds or 56.47 percent) were expended. NATO staged an experiment on real people and not just Serbs but Italians as well. Serbs were to play the role of direct victims and Italians the role of secondary victims. This made it possible to study how depleted uranium affected those who used it. It is likely that no one planned to assess the results of this experiment, but the relatives of the Italian military personnel that died of cancer compelled the parliament to do so.

Here is the link to the relevant report.

This 252-page document is one of many studies of the consequences of how depleted uranium and radioactive thorium affected the military personnel of the Italian Armed Forces. In brief, according to the research ordered by the parliamentary commission, the cancer rate increased by several times in the areas where depleted uranium munitions were used. Precise information on the Italian military personnel that used these munitions was published. Of 7,500 people exposed to toxic substances and radiation, 372 died (a 5 percent death rate – every 20th person). Moreover, they died of painful oncological complications – kidney dysfunction, lung cancer, bone cancer, esophagus cancer, degenerative skin development, Hodgkin's lymphoma and leukemia.

We even know the names of those who died: Corporal Antonio Attianese, Private Leopoldo Di Vico and many others. They all died of terminal cancer.

The number of suits filed by Italians against their Defence Ministry is steadily growing. The reason is the same – the cancer they developed after using depleted uranium munitions.

By supplying Ukraine with these munitions, Britain wants to turn its territory into a scorched and desolate land. Nobody will speak Russian or Ukrainian there. There will be silence there, like in Pripyat and Chernobyl.

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