AFU still shelling residential areas in Donetsk - Kirovsky district, today
What strikes me the most when I see footage from Donetsk is how the people are... used to this. Everyone knows what to do when they hear artillery, "duck & cover", fire brigades move swiftly on muscle memory. 16-year-olds have lived half their lives like this.
In mid-February I started reading local Donetsk group chats to keep track of what's going on, teenagers discussing the shelling, afraid to go to sleep, talking about which districts are getting hit, how they haven't stayed up this late in forever, trying to joke through it
No one will talk about this now, but around February 17th Ukrainain shelling of Donetsk intensified to 2014 levels and no one gave a damn about it. People dying, left without water and electricity, hiding in basements. It's sad that it's happening to other civilians now, but...
... Kiev's actions have made sure that it would happen sooner or later. “It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.”
Several civilians killed in Donetsk just today. No military utility to these strikes, pure terror tactics and spite. No idea why people thought this could just go on forever.
Crazy to contemplate how easily this war could have been avoided. If the Maidan government hadn't insisted on passing a bunch of anti-Russian laws immediately after taking power. If they had compromised on regional autonomy (within Ukraine!) for Donbass. If they adhered to Minsk.
Four people killed, five wounded. Rocket artillery fired straight at the city center, a children's hospital, cluster munitions. You have heard this phrase very often now, but think about what it really means - this has been going on for over EIGHT YEARS 
All of it is being recorded.
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