Donbass (2016) [1:01:15]

Anne-Laure Bonnel, jeune réalisatrice et mère de famille française, décide d’accompagner Alexandre, un père de famille d’origine ukrainienne, dans la région du Donbass, à l’est de l’Ukraine en zone pro-russe. Au cœur de la guerre, elle capte les images terribles d’un conflit meurtrier et d’un désastre humanitaire sans précédent. #Donbass est un road-movie immersif, un film documentaire saisissant dans un pays déchiré

https://youtu.be/6Oh-IE2zmJc

#french

..To examine that question, however, one must be able and willing to engage in a fact-based discussion of Russian motives. The main problem with this approach is that the narrative which would emerge is not convenient for those who espouse the Western dogma of “Putinism,”..

..The issue of NATO expansion and the threat it posed to Russian national security is dismissed with the throw-away notion that #NATO is a defensive alliance and as such could pose no threat to Russia or its leader. The issue of the presence of the cancer of neo-#Nazi ideology in the heart of the Ukrainian government and national identity is countered with the “fact” that #Ukraine’s current president is himself a Jew. The eight-year suffering of the Russian-speaking citizens of the #Donbass, who lived and died under the incessant bombardment brought on by the Ukrainian military, is simply ignored as if it never happened..

Pity the Nation – Consortium News – https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/07/pity-the-nation/

#Russia #US #Europe