https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/1d1f0a52-be58-440a-807d-9a198e79f762 28 April 2014 was the last pro-Ukrainian march in Donetsk, defying the popular Russian narrative that “Donbas overwhelmingly dreamed of Russian occupation”. It was the last, because out of nowhere, in the presence of riot police, group of masked men wearing Russian military and police camouflage appeared and stated beating the hell out of the participants of the march, including many women and children. For context, at that time Slovyansk was already controlled by the Girkin commandos who conducted extrajudicial executions on civilians suspected of having pro-Ukrainian views. Please especially note participants of the pro-Ukrainian marches interviewed are speaking almost exclusively Russian and they say - in Russian - they "don't want to live in Russia". This defies the Moscow narrative that the conflict broke out of fictious "Russian language bans" (which were never introduced in Ukraine) and the right to speak Russian (which no law ever limited). The Russian-speaking people in Ukraine very rationally opposed Russian nationalism which denied their sovereignty and forced them into the role of serfs of Putin by mere fact of speaking Russian language. Mon, 04 May 2026 10:04:24 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.echelon.pl https://video.echelon.pl/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://video.echelon.pl/videos/watch/1d1f0a52-be58-440a-807d-9a198e79f762 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.echelon.pl/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.