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“Bambini sbagliati". La risposta di Savenkova di Lugansk a Papa Francesco dal LuganskSono stati resi noti i risultati del referendum nel Donbass e nelle due regioni del sud-est ucraino: la popolazione ha deciso di uscire dall’Ucraina e aderire alla Russia con un plebiscito. Sanno bene chi li bombarda da 8 anni e il presidente Zelenskij inasprendo i bombardamenti dei civili ha dimostrato il vero valore del suo governo.

Tira le somme anche la giovane scrittrice del Donbass, Faina Savenkova di Lugansk.

Ecco la mia traduzione del suo testo:

“Bambini sbagliati"

Da tre anni racconto ciò che accade da noi a Lugansk. Della guerra nella quale vivo, dei dolori e delle gioie. Un anno fa, il sito "Mirotvorez" ha reso i miei dati personali di pubblico dominio.

Ho scritto molte lettere ai leader mondiali, a personaggi pubblici dei paesi occidentali chiedendo solo due cose: rimuovere i dati di tutti i bambini dal "Mirotvorez" e aiutare affinché i bambini del Donbass potessero riavere una vita pacifica, fare in modo che si smettesse di ucciderli. Quando è iniziato il confronto con il "Mirotvorez", i miei amici giornalisti ucraini mi hanno chiesto perché non ho scritto a Zelensky, ma l'ho solo menzionato nella mia intervista. Allora per me era difficile rispondere, ingenuamente credevo sempre che tra l’Ucraina e il Donbass fosse possibile la pace e che il Segretario Generale delle Nazioni Unite, Guterres e l'UNICEF, in qualità di famose organizzazioni internazionali, mi avrebbero aiutato.

Purtroppo mi sono sbagliata. Tutto ciò che ho chiesto è stato da loro ignorato e l'Ucraina aveva deciso che noi potevamo essere presi con la forza.

I miei sforzi e i miei sogni sono così rimasti sogni. L'unica cosa di cui sono contenta è che non ho scritto a Zelenskij. E ora capisco perché: non si può scrivere e chiedere di non uccidere i bambini a chi dà gli ordini di bombardare Donetsk, Gorlovka, Alcevsk e altre città. Non si può scrivere a un presidente che manda a morire i suoi soldati a migliaia senza alcuna pietà, che impartisce gli ordini di compiere atti terroristici e di assassinare i bambini. Non si può scrivere a un presidente che ha dato inizio a questo massacro e ha perso metà del suo paese. Non si può scrivere a un perdente. I bambini muoiono tutti i giorni nel Donbass, a Kherson e Zaporozhye.

E di questo ha colpa solo lui, un presidente che perderà tutto...E che dire dell'UNICEF, dell'ONU, di Amnesty International? Hanno forse detto qualcosa dei bambini uccisi dall'esercito ucraino? Ovviamente no. Così come con la storia del "Mirotvorez". Loro sanno. Ma rimangono in silenzio oppure esprimono preoccupazione. Tacciono sempre e ovunque. Come quando sono stati uccisi i bambini della Jugoslavia, Siria, Palestina, Afghanistan, Iraq e Libia. E se tali rispettose organizzazioni chiudono un occhio sui brutali omicidi dei bambini, possono mai dire qualcosa sulla storia del “Mirotvorez"? Penso di no. Perché secondo l'UNICEF e Amnesty International noi siamo “bambini sbagliati”, che sono nati e vivono nel posto sbagliato. In uno dei miei saggi ho scritto che i bambini della guerra sono silenziosi, perché gli adulti non li sentono. Così è. Purtroppo noi bambini a loro non interessiamo.Noi non siamo come loro. Secondo il loro parere, noi possiamo essere uccisi, dobbiamo essere uccisi in silenzio, così da non disturbare gli altri con le nostre grida di aiuto. Mi dispiace che stia succedendo questo.

Mi dispiace che il paese in cui io sono nata, stia bombardando e cercando di distruggere tutto ciò che mi è caro e che amo, con il sorriso di approvazione di chi può, ma non vuole fermare questa guerra. Purtroppo, tutti coloro che aiutano l'Ucraina non capiscono che la guerra arriverà da loro.

La gente comune negli Stati Uniti e in Europa il più delle volte non è a conoscenza delle brutalità dell'esercito ucraino, degli atroci bombardamenti e uccisioni dei civili. Là alla gente dicono che siamo noi che ci spariamo da soli oppure che è l'esercito russo che ci sta bombardando da 8 anni.Sarà per questo che abbiamo così tanto aspettato il suo arrivo nel 2022! Dipingono un’altra realtà.Ma sono sicura che non sarà per sempre così. La verità vincerà comunque. La cosa più difficile è non perdersi d'animo quando tutto quello che fai non porta i risultati. Non ti sentono. E quando già pensi che tutto sia stato inutile, accade un evento che ti aiuta a credere di nuovo che ciò che stai facendo, non lo stai facendo invano. Così è successo con la lettera del Papa.

Quando ero a Mosca, mi hanno trasmesso la risposta di papa Francesco.

Secondo i miei amici italiani, lui raramente risponde, ma lui mi ha proposto di pregare con lui per la pace. Non so se ha risposto egli stesso o se la risposta è stata scritta per lui, ma l'importante è che il Papa per la prima volta ha prestato attenzione alla richiesta di un bambino del Donbass e che ha voluto pregare insieme a chi è considerato un nemico in Ucraina. Ha proposto di pregare a me, bambina che non è considerata una persona in Ucraina. E io sicuramente pregherò con lui per le centinaia di bambini uccisi dall'Ucraina e per la vita pacifica di cui tutti abbiamo così bisogno.

Trad. Marinella Mondaini
https://www.lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-bambini_sbag..

There aren't a lot of people that truly impress me, but 13 Year Old Faina Savenkova certainly does! Her story is amazing, as she tells it in a shy and humble way. Her parents should be proud! While most 13 year old kids in America are worried about if their iPhone battery will last until the end of the school day, this 13 year old girl considers if she's going to be murdered before her school school day is over for speaking out against the Ukrainian bombings of women and Children in the Donbass.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMsjb9Hk_uI&t=1484s

https://thesaker.is/banderastan-sitrep-by-faina-saven..

Banderastan SITREP by Faina Savenkova
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by Faina Savenkova for the Saker blog

For three years now I have been telling you about what is happening in Lugansk. About the war in which I live, about sorrows and joys. A year ago, the Peacemaker website published my personal data. I have written many letters to world leaders and artists in Western countries. I had only two requests: to delete the personal data of all the children from the “Peacemaker” and to help the children of Donbass to find a peaceful life so that we would not be killed. When the confrontation with the “Peacemaker” began, my friends – Ukrainian journalists asked me why I did not write a letter to Zelensky, but only mentioned him in an interview. At that time it was difficult for me to answer; I still naively believed that there could be peace between Ukraine and Donbass and that UN Secretary-General Guterres and UNICEF, as world-renowned organizations, would help me. But, unfortunately, I was wrong. Everything I asked for was ignored by these organizations, and Ukraine decided that we could be captured by force. My efforts and dreams have remained dreams. The only thing I’m glad about is that I didn’t write to Zelensky at that time. And now I understand why: you can’t write and ask not to kill children to someone who gives orders to shell Donetsk, Gorlovka, Alchevsk and other cities. You cannot write to a president who sends thousands of his soldiers to their deaths without sparing them, gives orders for terrorist acts and the murder of children. You can’t write to the president who started this massacre and lost half of his country. You can’t write to a loser. Every day children die in the Donbas, Kherson and Zaporozhye. And he has only himself to blame. A president who will lose everything…

Well, what about UNICEF, the UN, Amnesty International? Did they say anything about the children killed by the Ukrainian army? No, of course not. They reacted the same way to the story of the Peacemaker. They know. But they remain silent or express “concern”. They are silent always and everywhere. When the children of Yugoslavia, Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya were killed, they were silent. And if such respected organizations turn a blind eye to the brutal murder of children, do they have anything to say about the story of the “Peacemaker”? I think not. After all, according to UNICEF and Amnesty International, we are the wrong children, born and living in the wrong place. One of my essays says that children of war behave quietly because adults do not hear them. They are. Unfortunately, we children are not interested in these adults. We are not like them. They seem to think it’s okay to kill us, they just need to do it quietly so as not to disturb others with our cries for help. I’m sorry this is happening. I am sorry that the country in which I was born is shelling and trying to destroy everything that is dear to me and everything that I love, under the approving smile of those who can, but do not want to stop this war. Unfortunately, all those who help Ukraine do not realize that the war is coming to them.

Ordinary people in the United States and Europe are mostly unaware of the atrocities of the Ukrainian army, the brutal shelling and killing of civilians. People are told that we are shooting at ourselves or that the Russian army has been shooting at us for eight years. Apparently, that’s why we expected Russia to come here in 2022, right? This is a different reality.

But I’m sure it won’t always be like this. The truth will win anyway.

„Falsche Kinder“

Seit drei Jahren berichte ich über die Geschehnisse in Lugansk. Über den Krieg, in dem ich lebe, meine Sorgen und Freuden. Vor einem Jahr hat die Internetseite 'myrotvorets.center' meine Daten veröffentlicht. Ich habe viele Briefe an führende Politiker und Kulturschaffende aus westlichen Ländern geschrieben. Ich hatte nur zwei Bitten: die Daten aller Kinder von myrotvorets.center zu löschen und den Kindern im Donbass zu helfen, ein friedliches Leben zu finden, damit wir nicht getötet werden.

Als die Konfrontation mit myrotvorets.center begann, wurde ich von meinen ukrainischen Journalistenfreunden gefragt, warum ich nicht an Zelenskyj geschrieben, sondern ihn nur in meinem Interview erwähnt habe. Damals fiel mir die Antwort schwer: Ich glaubte noch naiv, dass es Frieden zwischen der Ukraine und dem Donbass geben könnte und dass UN-Generalsekretär Guterres und UNICEF als international renommierte Organisationen mir helfen würden. Aber leider habe ich mich geirrt. Alles, was ich verlangte, wurde von diesen Organisationen ignoriert, und die Ukraine entschied, dass wir mit Gewalt übernommen werden könnten. Meine Bemühungen und Träume blieben Träume.

Das Einzige, worüber ich froh bin, ist, dass ich damals nicht an Zelenskyj geschrieben habe. Und jetzt verstehe ich auch, warum: Man kann demjenigen, der den Befehl zum Beschuss von Donezk, Gorlovka, Altschevsk und anderen Städten gibt, nicht schreiben und ihn bitten, keine Kinder zu töten. Man kann nicht an einen Präsidenten schreiben, der Tausende seiner Soldaten in den Tod schickt, sie nicht verschont und den Befehl gibt, Terroranschläge zu verüben und Kinder zu töten. Man kann nicht an den Präsidenten schreiben, der dieses Massaker begonnen und die Hälfte seines Landes verloren hat. Einem Verlierer kann man nicht schreiben. Jeden Tag sterben Kinder im Donbass, in Cherson und Saporoschje. Und daran ist nur er selbst schuld. Ein Präsident, der alles verlieren wird...

Und was ist mit UNICEF, der UNO, Amnesty International? Haben sie etwas über die Kinder gesagt, die von der ukrainischen Armee getötet wurden? Nein, natürlich nicht. Genau wie in der myrotvorets.center-Geschichte. Sie wissen es. Aber sie schweigen oder äußern sich besorgt. Sie sind immer und überall still. Als man die Kinder in Jugoslawien, Syrien, Palästina, Afghanistan, Irak und Libyen tötete. Und wenn solche angesehenen Organisationen die brutale Tötung von Kindern ignorieren, haben sie dann etwas zu und bei der myrotvorets.center-Geschichte zu sagen? Ich glaube nicht. Schließlich sind wir laut UNICEF und Amnesty International die falschen Kinder, die am falschen Ort geboren wurden und dort leben.

In einem meiner Aufsätze heißt es, dass Kriegskinder still seien, weil die Erwachsenen sie nicht hören. So ist es. Leider sind wir - die Kinder - nicht interessant für sie. Wir sind nicht wie sie. Sie scheinen zu glauben, dass wir getötet werden können, es soll nur leise geschehen, damit wir die anderen nicht mit unseren Hilferufen stören.

Es tut mir leid, dass dies geschieht. Es tut mir leid, dass das Land, in dem ich geboren wurde, alles, was mir lieb und teuer ist, beschießt und zu zerstören versucht, unter dem zustimmenden Lächeln derer, die diesen Krieg stoppen können, aber nicht wollen. Leider ist all jenen, die der Ukraine helfen, nicht klar, dass ein Krieg auf sie zukommt.

Die gewöhnlichen Menschen in den USA und in Europa wissen meist nichts von den Gräueltaten der ukrainischen Armee, dem brutalen Beschuss und der Tötung von Zivilisten. Man sagt uns, dass wir uns selbst beschießen oder dass die russische Armee seit acht Jahren auf uns schießen würde. Offenbar haben wir uns deshalb so sehr auf seine Ankunft im Jahr 2022 gefreut, ja. Eine andere Realität.

Aber ich bin sicher, dass das nicht immer so sein wird. Die Wahrheit wird trotzdem siegen. Das Schwierigste ist, sich nicht entmutigen zu lassen, wenn alles, was man tut, nicht zum Ziel führt. Man wird nicht gehört. Gerade wenn man denkt, es nützt nichts, passiert etwas, das einen wieder glauben lässt, dass man es nicht umsonst tut.

So war es auch mit dem Brief des Papstes. Als ich in Moskau war, erhielt ich eine Antwort von Papst Franziskus. Meinen italienischen Freunden zufolge antwortet er selten jemandem, aber er schlug vor, mit mir um Frieden zu beten. Ich weiß nicht, ob er selbst geantwortet hat oder ob die Antwort für ihn geschrieben wurde, aber wichtig ist, dass der Papst zum ersten Mal auf die Bitte eines Kindes aus dem Donbass eingegangen ist und gemeinsam mit jemandem beten wollte, der in der Ukraine als Feind betrachtet wird. Er bot mir an, für mich zu beten, ein Kind, das in der Ukraine nicht als Mensch angesehen wird. Und ich werde sicherlich mit ihm für die Hunderte von Kindern beten, die in der Ukraine getötet wurden, und für das friedliche Leben, das wir alle brauchen.

Faina Savenkova

Natalia Butko is super As always 😀 💜

ITREP Banderistão, por Faina Savenkova
Faina Savenkova – 26 de setembro de 2022

Há três anos venho falando sobre o que está acontecendo em Lugansk. Sobre a guerra em que vivo, sobre tristezas e alegrias. Há um ano, o site Peacemaker [em ucraniano Mirotvorets, que significa “Pacificador”. Basicamente uma lista da morte, trata-se de um site com dados de milhares de pessoas antipáticas ou opostas ao regime nazista de Kiev. Aparentemente hospedado por servidores instalados na “democrática” e “iluminista” Europa – nota do tradutor] publicou meus dados pessoais. Escrevi muitas cartas para líderes mundiais e artistas de países ocidentais. Eu tinha apenas dois pedidos: excluir os dados pessoais de todas as crianças do “Pacificador” e ajudar as crianças de Donbass a encontrar uma vida pacífica para que não fôssemos mortos. Quando o confronto com o “Pacificador” começou, meus amigos jornalistas ucranianos me perguntaram por que eu não escrevi uma carta para Zelensky, mas apenas o mencionei em uma entrevista. Naquela época era difícil para eu responder. Eu ainda acreditava ingenuamente que poderia haver paz entre a Ucrânia e Donbass e que o Secretário-Geral da ONU Guterres e a UNICEF, como organizações de renome mundial, me ajudariam. Mas, infelizmente, eu estava errada. Tudo o que pedi foi ignorado por essas organizações, e a Ucrânia decidiu que poderíamos ser capturados à força. Meus esforços e sonhos permaneceram sonhos. A única coisa que me deixa feliz é que não escrevi para Zelensky naquela época. E agora eu entendo o porquê: você não pode escrever e pedir para não matar crianças para alguém que dá ordens para bombardear Donetsk, Gorlovka, Alchevsk e outras cidades. Você não pode escrever para um presidente que envia milhares de seus soldados para a morte sem poupá-los, dá ordens para atos terroristas e o assassinato de crianças. Você não pode escrever para o presidente que começou este massacre e perdeu metade de seu país. Você não pode escrever para um perdedor. Todos os dias crianças morrem em Donbass, Kherson e Zaporozhye. E ele tem apenas a si mesmo para culpar. Um presidente que vai perder tudo…

Bem, e quanto à UNICEF, a ONU, e a Anistia Internacional? Eles disseram alguma coisa sobre as crianças mortas pelo exército ucraniano? Não, claro que não. Eles reagiram da mesma forma à história do Pacificador. Eles sabem. Mas eles permanecem em silêncio ou expressam “preocupação”. Eles estão em silêncio sempre e em todos os lugares. Quando os filhos da Iugoslávia, Síria, Palestina, Afeganistão, Iraque e Líbia foram mortos, eles ficaram em silêncio. E se essas respeitadas organizações fecham os olhos para o brutal assassinato de crianças, elas têm algo a dizer sobre a história do “Pacificador”? Eu acho que não. Afinal, segundo a UNICEF e a Anistia Internacional, somos as crianças erradas, nascidas e morando no lugar errado. Um dos meus ensaios diz que os filhos da guerra se comportam em silêncio porque os adultos não os ouvem. Eles são. Infelizmente, nós, crianças, não estamos interessados ​​nesses adultos. Nós não somos como eles. Eles parecem pensar que não há problema em nos matar, eles só precisam fazer isso em silêncio para não incomodar os outros com nossos gritos de socorro. Lamento que isso esteja acontecendo. Lamento que o país em que nasci esteja bombardeando e tentando destruir tudo o que me é caro e tudo o que amo, sob o sorriso de aprovação de quem pode, mas não quer parar esta guerra. Infelizmente, todos aqueles que ajudam a Ucrânia não percebem que a guerra está chegando até eles, mas não querem parar esta guerra.

A maioria das pessoas comuns nos Estados Unidos e na Europa desconhece as atrocidades do exército ucraniano, o bombardeio brutal e a morte de civis. As pessoas são informadas de que estamos atirando em nós mesmos ou que o exército russo está atirando em nós há oito anos. Aparentemente, é por isso que esperávamos que a Rússia viesse aqui em 2022, certo? Esta é uma realidade diferente.

Mas tenho certeza que nem sempre será assim. A verdade vai vencer de qualquer maneira.

Faina Savenkova tem 12 anos e mora em Lugansk, LNR (República Popular de Lugansk). Faina viveu mais da metade de sua vida durante uma guerra, metade de sua vida esperando pela paz. Ela quer que os filhos de Donbass sejam ouvidos por adultos.

Fonte: https://thesaker.is/banderastan-sitrep-by-faina-savenkova/http://sakerlatam.org/sitrep-banderistao-por-faina-savenkova/

Roger Waters added to Ukrainian govt-sponsored hit list
Deborah Armstrong·August 25, 2022Russian political analyst Daria Dugina, who was killed in a car bomb explosion in Moscow on Saturday, now appears as “liquidated” on the Ukrainian online hit list. The site was created under the watch of the Minister of Internal Affairs.

This article was originally published by Deborah L. Armstrong at Medium.com

Editor’s note: The IP address of Mirotvorets has been traced to a server in Brussels, Belgium.

I have written about the Ukrainian hit list known as Mirotvorets, or “Peacekeeper,” twice before. The first time was in this article about internet censorship, and the second time was when a 13-year-old Ukrainian girl, Faina Savenkova, was added to the list for publicly speaking out against Kiev’s bloody war on Russian-speaking civilians in the eastern part of Ukraine, a region known as the Donbass.
Screen shot of Faina Savenkova’s profile on Mirotvorets.
Screen shot of Faina Savenkova’s profile on Mirotvorets.

Mirotvorets is a database which lists thousands of journalists, activists, and anyone else who is declared an “Enemy of Ukraine.” Their personal information is published, such as the addresses of their homes, their phone numbers and bank account numbers; anything that can help them be easily located. When the people on this list are murdered, like Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli was, the word ЛИКВИДИРОВАН, “LIQUIDATED,” written in Ukrainian, is stamped across their picture in big red letters.

And, as of August 22, Daria Dugina, who was killed in a car bomb explosion in Moscow on Saturday, appears as “liquidated” on the website, adding more credibility to Russia’s assertion that she was assassinated by a Ukrainian nationalist who rented an apartment in the building where Daria lived in order to surveil her prior to her killing. It is believed that she was killed because her father, Alexander Dugin was referred to as “Putin’s brain” and “Putin’s spiritual guide” in western media, though these claims are really just more speculation.
Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli is listed as “liquidated” on Mirotvorets site.
Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli is listed as “liquidated” on Mirotvorets site.
Daria Dugina, Russian war correspondent, is listed as “liquidated” on Mirotvorets site.

It seems that almost anyone can be added to this kill list. Even Henry Kissinger’s name is on the list despite his long history of Russophobia. But since he dared to air his concerns about how the US is teetering toward war with Russia and China, Kissinger, who once suggested dropping nuclear bombs on Moscow, is now declared an “Enemy of Ukraine.”
Kissinger’s Mirotvorets profile.
Kissinger’s Mirotvorets profile.

Really, so many people have been added to this list that it has now become a badge of honor among those opposed to Ukraine’s regime, when they are included on the Mirotvorets site.
Filmaker Igor Lopatonok is targeted by Mirotvorets because of a film he worked on with Oliver Stone.
Filmaker Igor Lopatonok is targeted by Mirotvorets because of a film he worked on with Oliver Stone.

Why this site is allowed to operate is a good question. But you can access it easily, and even donate money to help the “cause” – if you are sympathetic to Nazis and think that assassinating people for their opinions is a wholesome way to support Ukraine.

Here is Roger Waters’ profile:
Roger Waters’ profile on Mirotvorets.

The co-founder of “Pink Floyd” is known for his support of imprisoned Wikileaks’ creator Julian Assange, and for his opposition to imperialism and war, as well as for his awesome music, loved by millions around the world.

Waters recently referred to Joe Biden as a “war criminal” on CNN, and said that Biden is “fueling the fire in Ukraine.”

“This war,” the musician stated, “is basically about the action and reaction of NATO pushing right up to the Russian border, which they promised they wouldn’t do when [Mikhail] Gorbachev negotiated the withdrawal of the USSR from the whole of Eastern Europe.”

Waters also said that Crimea belongs to Russia, because the majority of people living on the peninsula are Russian.

The rock star’s views have outraged the pro-NATO crowd and their Nazi friends, as well as the social justice warriors who froth at the mouth in support of whatever the mainstream media declares to be “the current thing.” Waters, who has always been something of a dissident and anti-war, the way all rock stars used to be when rock and roll was still real, is attacked mercilessly by the “woke” crowd, who are intolerant of all who are not in lockstep with their views.
Several screen prints of articles denouncing Roger Waters.
Social justice warriors to the rescue! Roger Waters is smeared for his dissident views.

An investigation by the Russian Foundation to Battle Injustice reveals the names of the individuals, corporations and government entities which are believed to be the “organizers, sponsors and curators of the Ukrainian nationalist website.” While Mirotvorets is easily accessible to anyone who likes that sort of thing, this Russian human rights organization is blocked on major social media platforms like Facebook.
Some of the faces behind Mirotvorets, according to the Foundation to Battle Injustice
Some of the faces behind Mirotvorets named by the Foundation to Battle Injustice

Investigators say that the hitlist, which was created in 2014, is supervised by the public organization “Mirotvorets Center,” which is headed by Roman Zaitsev, a former employee of Ukrainian special services, and by the public organization, “People’s Rear,” headed by George Tuka, a Ukrainian statesman and public figure. The site is also controlled by the Security Service of Ukraine and was created on the initiative of Anton Gerashchenko, the advisor to Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs. Gerashchenko faces charges of terrorism in the Russian Federation for his creation of the hitlist.
Anton Gerashchenko, creator of Mirotvorets. Photo: Foundation to Battle Injustice

In its early days, Mirotvorets published the names of so-called “Russian separatists” (residents of eastern Ukraine) who oppose the Maidan coup and believe it was economically unwise to break off relations with Russia. But later on, the site began publishing the personal data of public figures, journalists, activists and even children.

Mirotvorets became infamous following the murders of two Ukrainian public figures in 2015, whose private information was published on the website. Oles Buzina, a 45-year-old writer and journalist, and Oleg Kalashnikov, a 52-year-old deputy of Ukrainian parliament, were killed just a few days after the publication of their home addresses.

In May of 2016, Mirotvorets publicized the personal data of more than 4,500 journalists and media representatives from around the world who had received permission to work in the territory of Donbass. Investigators say that Mirotvorets’ administrators hacked the database of the Ministry of State Security of the Donetsk People’s Republic and gathered the phone numbers, email addresses and home addresses of foreign journalists whom Mirotvorets accuses of “collaborating with terrorists” because they are covering the war from territories not under Ukrainian control.

The journalists began receiving threatening phone calls and emails and experienced an increase in cyber-bullying and harassment on social networks. The government of Ukraine issued a statement that it had found no violations of the law in Mirotvorets’ actions, even though the human rights organization, “Committee to Protect Journalists,” condemned the site’s doxing of thousands of journalists working in eastern Ukraine.