As Russian authorities confirm 17 dead due to the Nova Kakhovka dam collapse, Tatiana Savitskaya, an aid worker who has been to the affected region, tells me some died because they were hiding in basements from shelling, when the water came.

As once again Europeans are slaughtering eachother in brutal trench warfare, a field of poppies grows around a line of trenches in Donbass.

▶️ Donetsk residents react to counteroffensive by Ukraine

@JohnnyJamesMiller reports from Donetsk.

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“I lived quite well during Ukrainian rule and I live well now.”

As fiercely pro Rus or pro Ukr voices dominate debate, outside distinctly pro Russian cities like Donetsk and Mariupol, this young man’s perspective may even be the most prominent in the ‘four regions.’

▶️ People in Mariupol want peace not Ukrainian ‘liberation’

@johnnyjamesmiller reports from Donbass.

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“Where is that Ukraine? It no longer exists. They are fascists.”

How many times can these Donbass lady’s apartment block be hit, and they still don’t leave the frontline areas? They seem to be impervious to the terror of artillery. I spoke to them a few days ago.

I’ve spent enough time in Donbass and on the frontlines to know that people here and most Russian soldiers, care more about Ukrainian soldiers than NATO policy makers do. #counteroffensive #proxywar

There is an historic hatred of Russia in British elite society which plays into the misguided and self defeating policy on Ukraine. Irrational and racist hatred leads to disastrous policy.

▶️ Press TV Correspondent in Donetsk, @JohnnyJamesMiller, says Kiev’s counteroffensive has been unsuccessful until now, and their frontline assaults have not yet succeeded.

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