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This kept repeating itself all summer. Just outside Dolzshanski within a few kilometers of the border itself the Ukrainian 95 th Air-mobile brigade came in. They set up a tent on the side of the road and put up a Russian flag. The 95 th flagged cars down hoping to catch refugees heading for the border and shot everyone that stopped. There is little left there now except this car body. The officer that took me out to the site was in the raid that destroyed the 95 th air-mobile brigade. Because of 95 th murdering people trying to flee, none of the 95 th was spared when the Donbass army moved in.


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The number of refugees murdered trying to make it across the border this way remains uninvestigated at this point. The same goes for Ukrainian battalions murdered that were trying to surrender or retreat- killed by the medalled Ukrainian punisher battalions.

The common element of these and other stories I have written (or had to leave unwritten) is simple: you cannot get much closer to me without coming inside my own doors. These are as local as local can get. This is what every person in Donbass lived with through the summer. Writing it was very difficult. Give to much information and they know where to find the witnesses you are talking to. They know who to torture.

While in Ukraine controlled our areas, it was almost impossible to get the real information about events without endangering innocent people. Everything written had to be looked at in light of identifying neighbors, officials, and even Ukrainian officers (story for a different day).

For ourselves, I waited for my own wife to come to the conclusion that safety and quiet were luxuries we could no longer afford before speaking openly about this. I have been trying to get her to leave. She won't. I have not met many men in America who are as courageous or ferocious as she is for simple justice for people. This is her home. Even after surviving three heart attacks, she has sworn she won't leave and will help people every way she can. She is no different than any other woman that lives here.

We have lived in both West and East Ukraine and our ties to so many people are familial (community). They are not nazis. These are her (our) people especially in Donbass where she grew up. They are all her family (ours) and her friends (ours). You see, my wife is a true Donbass girl.

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Zelenopolea is a farming village directly next to us. When the Ukrainian army, national guard, foreign mercenaries, and punisher battalions controlled our area. they set up camp there. A punisher camp took up over twenty acres by itself in the middle of hundreds of acres of farmland. Zelenopolea is also definitive proof that Russia never attacked. The farthest treeline in the photo above is the real Russian border.


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That's how close thousands of Ukrainian troops, Pravy Sektor, mercs, and punisher battalions were to Russia. While they were there almost all summer western media kept reporting about Russian troops and tanks attacking Ukraine. Look at the photo above again. If Russia was attacking, Zelenopolea would have been the place to do it. All the forces Russia would have trgeted were all in one place, this place, at one time.

It is so close, Russia could have saved on fuel costs by having their army walk across the short distance that separated them. Tanks and artillery could have lined up and simply fired. None of this happened.

When you look at the photo above which shows that same border treeline, you can also see how close my town was to the camp. That treeline is in my town.

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George Eliason is an American journalist that lives and works in Donbass. He has been interviewed by and provided analysis for RT, the BBC, and Press-TV. His articles have been published in the Security Assistance Monitor, Washingtons Blog, (more...)
 

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