

The people who actually live there changed that fact. It was the Luhansk and Donetsk Peoples Republics before it was Russia.
I don’t know why it’s so surprising about the children. Former Eastern Ukraine was mostly ethnic Russian. Russia has accepted more war refugees than any other nation. Orphans have a very good chance that’s where their closest family lives.
Russia has returned many children West. This is all well known, if under-reported.
The rest is fanciful imagination and misplaced atrocities of Banderites themselves. You’ll believe anything because you want to believe anything.















Banderites are not the pinnacles of honesty. They say lots of stuff.
Why would Russia do that, the inherent evil that lurks in the hearts of all Russians? Give me a break.
The only reason civilians would be so close to the front line is that they’re what the Banderites call “waiters”, people who are waiting for the Russians and refuse to evacuate West. Mariupol was also full of waiters, including in the Opera House.