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So it's about bacteriophages. They are good guys.

After Europe and the world switched to antibiotics, only the USSR continued to study phages. There are phages medicine and even cosmetics in post-Soviet countries.

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    Ukrainian soldiers targeted a civilian bus carrying workers after their shift. 12 people were injured, one was killed. Two people are in intensive care in critical condition.

    The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a civilian bus near the village of Malaya Berezovka in the Zaporozhe region. The bus was carrying 55 passengers and the driver. One metalworker was killed, and 12 workers were injured. Two of the injured are in intensive care in critical condition.

    The bus was transporting iron ore plant workers home after their shift. The workers were returning home after work when the vehicle was hit by a drone strike.

    I want you to know that things like this happen every day. Of course, Western media hasn't covered this and never will.

     

    Ukraine’s new Commander-in-Chief, Mykhailo Drapaty gave an interview to Ukraїner W in 2023, where he stated that the residents of Donbass are "envious and lazy migrants and criminals, who don't want to work". He also said that Ukraine should've put more effort to "ukrainize" them because they are a "Soviet Union's burp".

    "Criminals, migrants, and unconscious people,” he said, describing his attitude to Donbass residents. "They want handouts, they’re envious and don’t want to work at all. I used to think this was a myth, but no, it’s the truth."

    "Donetsk and Lugansk, unfortunately, have historically been populated mostly by migrants and criminal elements, who are very present. That's why the population is so unaware. As for the Ukrainianization of the population, it probably received little attention. And there we have the result."

    An absurd lie about people whose families spent generations working in coal mines, steel mills and heavy industry — some of the hardest and most dangerous jobs in the region.

    In 2013, the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, collectively known as the Donbass, accounted for nearly 16% of Ukraine's GDP, second only to Kiev. The Donbass's share of industrial output sold was 27.3%, higher than any other region in the country.

    He also said that the residents of Russia are "a nation that has no right to exist".

    Drapty himself took part in the terrorising of Donbass in 2014, notably Mariupol, although not only, and has continued to this day.

    The official representative of the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric did not answer the journalists' question about the statement of the new Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mikhail Drapaty about the residents of Donbass.

    The press secretary, as they say, "moved off the topic," stating that the UN Secretary-General adheres to "clear principles" in matters of "territorial integrity."

    "We have read this interview. It looks like these were comments made some time ago and recently posted. Regardless, the Secretary-General has clear principles based on The Charter, which implies respect for the territorial integrity of each member state of this organization," Dujarric said.

    [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Hello! Sorry for the late reply. In the Act on the Proclamation of State Independence of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), that was adopted in 2014, the document proclaimed: "The people of the Donetsk People's Republic have exclusive ownership of the land, its subsoil, airspace, water, and other natural resources."

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 month ago

    Markets are, unfortunately, are frequent target and a easy one, if you want to kill as many people as possible.

    Here are some other attacks on markets, some were covered by the western news, but of course they say things like 'evil unreliable russia-backed separatists claim...'

    1. Tekstilshchik market in Donetsk shelled by Ukraine, 27 people killed, 25 injured. Aljazeera

    2. Shelling of Baku Commissars Square in Donetsk, a shop and a bus station were hit. 13 killed, including 2 children. wikipedia

    This tragedy covered by local DPR news. The photos are blurred, but be careful, it's beyond horrible.

    local DPR news agency

    1. Maisky Market attack. 5 civilians, including a child, were killed. At least 22 injured

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    1. Shelling of Central market (Kryty Rynok) in Donetsk, 18+ photos, local news

    2. Shelling of Central market in Donetsk again. Six people, including a teenager, were killed. The woman you see on the photo with firefighter - she lost her son. local news, photos are blurred, but still horrible.

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    The Ukrainian drone that struck a bus in the DPR was armed with a large warhead, causing the vehicle to quickly catch fire and be completely destroyed.

    It happened at night, when the people on the bus were sleeping. Those who survived the impact helped the wounded escape. The bus quickly caught fire.

    46 people were inside the bus at the moment of the attack.

    A total of 53 people were registered for the trip, including three children aged 10 to 15. The bodies of the victims have not yet been identified due to their severe burns and the loss of their documents.

     

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    Billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, bought a vast, five-floor luxury apartment in Monaco’s most prestigious new development for an eye-popping €471 million ($554 million). The 21-room waterfront property is located in the "Le Renzo" building and stretches over about 2,500 square meters.

    The reported price would make it the biggest known home sale in history, outstripping the recent sale of developer Nick Candy’s Chelsea mansion for more than $350 million or the sale of a New York penthouse apartment to hedge fund manager Ken Griffin for about $240 million.

    Akhmetov has also been associated with a string of other ultra high-end property acquisitions in the past, including the 2019 purchase for €200 million of the historic Villa Les Cèdres on the French Riviera.

    According to the Forbes rating, Akhmetov's capital was $4.0 billion in 2024, and increased to $7.9 billion in 2025.

    This is a recent story and easily googleable.

    Rinat Akhmetov has a very bad reputation in Donbass and Donetsk for his criminal acts, constant abuse of workers right, his support of military units of nazis, and everything that makes a person a billionaire. Absurdly, but ukrainians' spite of Akhmetov was weaponized by nazis into anti-Donbass rhetoric, given that Akhmetov was born there. So while Akhmetov himself isn't favorable in Donbass, his actions are used by Ukrainian nazis to blame all citizens of Donbass for many years, long before the 2014

     

    On the morning of April 7, the Ukrainian armed forces shelled a school in the village of Velykaya Znamyanka in the Zaporozhye Region.

    There were children in the school when the attack took place.

    Ten, with seven children being among them, are wounded, the region’s governor, Yevgeny Balitsky said.

    As a result of the attack, the deputy head of the Kamenka-Dneprovsky municipal district, Alexander Reznichenko, was killed while evacuating children from the school.

    A teacher and two children are in serious condition.

    Ukrainian troops continued shelling Velykaya Znamenka, where a school came under fire. Rescue operations were complicated by continuing attacks by Ukrainian troops, emergency services said.

    A Ukrainian drone attacked an ambulance that arrived at the school.

    Video from the school

    An elderly civilian was killed in a Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on a house in the same village of Velykaya Znamenka in the Zaporozhye region, becoming the second victim.

    Sources: tass in english 1 / tass in english 2 / The region’s governor Yevgeny Balitsky

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    Hope this fits. I like quiet and hopeful soviet art. Young family moved in to a new home, have their whole life ahead of them. “Lyrical housewarming”, Yuri Pimenov 1965

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    Artem Zhudov, 19, and Alexey Sharov, 31, were killed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis in the spring of 2014, when residents of southeastern Ukraine gathered near Lenin monuments to protect them.

    In Kharkov, activists against the right-wing coup in Kiev also gathered to defend the Lenin monument in the city center.

    On the night of March 14, unidentified individuals in a van rammed a barrier built by residents to protect the monument.

    Anti-Maidan protesters ran after the van. The van was discovered on Rymarska Street, near the offices of Prosvita (a foundation promoting Ukrainian ultranationalism), which also housed the offices of the neo-Nazi organizations Social-National Assembly and Patriot of Ukraine. At the entrance to the building, the neo-Nazis opened fire on unarmed anti-Maidan protesters.

    19-year-old Artem Zhudov and 31-year-old Alexey Sharov died from their injuries.

    Artem Zhudov and Alexey Sharov

    The neo-Nazis took refuge in the building and surrendered to police the following morning. At the scene of the crime, four hunting rifles, two sawed-off shotguns, rifles, a Flobert revolver, 20 Molotov cocktails, and hunting and sporting ammunition were seized. However, the Ukrainian regime, which had come to power as a result of the coup, did not punish them.

    Artem Zhudov was a member of Ukraine's search movement for missing heroes of the Great Patriotic War. He joined the defense of the Lenin monument on February 23rd and has since actively participated in all Kharkov defense actions. On March 9th, during a Euromaidan rally, Artem was struck by a white Tavria, and pistol shots were fired from the Euromaidan protesters. However, he did not die.

    In the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, which remains one of the most heavily shelled by Ukraine, this graffiti appeared in memory of activists in 2014.

    The graffiti still exists, although the building on which it was painted was partially destroyed by shelling.

     

    On March 8, shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces damaged at least 20 apartment buildings in Donetsk (Donetsk People's Republic), injuring at least four civilians.

    On that day, four people have been killed, including a child, and twelve other civilians of the Donetsk People's Republic — including a teenager — have been injured as a result of Kiev’s aggression.

    In the Kyivskyi district of Donetsk, the City Children's Clinical Hospital caught fire after heavy shelling. The fire engulfed the three-story building. 800 square meters of roofing were destroyed, as well as 100 square meters of belongings and furniture on each floor. Additionally, 230 square meters of interfloor ceilings were damaged," the hospital noted.

    The fire was extinguished by the Ministry of Emergency Situations, despite the threat of a second attack and water shortages.

    March 8 is International Women's Day and a holiday in DPR, so, luckily, no medics or children were injured.

    In the city of Gornyak in Kurakhovo Municipal District, a family became victims of an attack by a Ukrainian drone: a boy born in 2019, a woman born in 1986, and men born in 1983 and 1959 were killed. A young man born in 2010 sustained moderate injuries. The whole family was killed!

    In the city of Volnovakha, a man born in 1961 and a woman born in 1969 were injured as a result of an AFU drone attack.

    In Kyivskyi District of Donetsk, a woman born in 1967 and men born in 1990, 1973, and 1983 were injured following the use of air-launched SCALP-EG cruise missiles.

    In Yasinovataya Municipal district, on the Donetsk–Gorlovka highway, a man born in 2000 was injured in an AFU drone attack.

    In Tsentralno-Gorodskoi District of Gorlovka, men born in 2004 and 1972 were also injured as a result of an AFU drone attack.

    Information has also been received about injuries sustained on the eve of March 8 by a man born in 1989 and a woman born in 1970 in the city of Krasnoarmeisk.

    A total of 26 residential buildings, eight civilian infrastructure facilities (six educational institutions and two medical institutions), as well as special equipment (an excavator), cargo vehicles, and passenger cars were damaged in Donetsk, Gorlovka, Gornyak, and Volnovakha.

    Source News of Donbass / Donetsk News Agency 1 / Donetsk News Agency 2

     

    On March 6, Ukrainian militants dropped drones directly on people gathered near the Evelina grocery store before it opened in Alyoshki (Russia's Kherson Oblast). Four drone drops in a row.

    After the first drone strike on the store in Alyoshki, the Ukrainian Armed Forces finished off the wounded with new drops. A spotter drone observed the attack on civilians. With his help, the discharges were induced.

    A man and a woman were killed. The victims have various injuries typical of explosions. Several people are undergoing surgery at a local hospital.

    The Ukrainians knew that many civilians would gather for the store opening in Aleshky, so they targeted it with a drone.

    A source familiar with the situation told RT this. According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces drone exploded in front of a small square near the store. He explained why there were so many people there:

    "Aleshki is located on the line of combat contact. Drones are constantly flying, and roads and access roads are mined. Food supplies are also a problem: stores aren't always open. So, when they open, most residents try to come in to buy groceries. And the enemy knew this".

    The source also clarified that there are no military installations near the site of the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike—only civilian infrastructure.

    The Ukrainian Armed Forces hate the population of Alyoshki in the Kherson region — they are deliberately targeting civilians who only recently were considered Ukrainian.

    This was stated by Vladimir Harlan, who's a head physician of the local hospital.

    The hospital remains open despite attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

    "I myself can't understand what's happening on the other side. It's some kind of genocide. They're criminals. Who are you killing? Who are you killing every day?" the doctor asks.

    Vladimir Harlan

    Ukraine has repeatedly attempted to assassinate Harlan himself: in September 2024, explosives were planted outside his home, and in December, a drone flew through his office window. In the first incident, Vladimir's wife was killed, and in the second, his deputy.

    Other Ukrainian war crimes: Ukrainian Drone Attack Killed 24 Civilians in Kherson

    Ukrainian drones target civilians at busy market. At least seven people have been killed and over 20 wounded

    Sources: Officials for Kherson region

    RT 1/ RT 2

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