Death And Ruins: Ukrainians Recall Horrors Of Russian Occupation In Lyman And Yampil

Ukrainian troops liberated the towns of Lyman and Yampil in the Donetsk region in early October. Russian forces had controlled the area since May. Locals told RFE/RL journalists what life was like during Russian occupation and about the difficulties they face now that their towns are in ruins.
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[@imaginemetoo]

So sickened by the mentality of people who excuse this outrageous war just as much as the perpetrators ! GLORY TO UKRAINE! SLAVA UKRAINI!🇺🇦🇺🇦💙💛

[@johnwayne3085]

Were you sickened by the Ukrainian shelling in Crimea for the last 8 years?

[@imaginemetoo]

@@johnwayne3085 Was aware what was going on , were you, think not ! Subjugation much?

[@cetaepsilon]

@@johnwayne3085 were you sickened by Russia shelling Chechnya for 10 years ?

[@phild3936]

@@johnwayne3085 If you want to be a good troll/bot you should at least use the correct ruSSian propaganda lies. It's the 'Donbas' Ukraine is supposed to have shelled for eight years, not Crimea.

[@vladimir6542]

@@cetaepsilon Were you sick of the fact that barbarians from the United States and their vassals shelled Serbia, killed more than a million people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, have I forgotten anyone? Destroyed these states. And as for Chechnya, you two-faced animal, the Chechens are now in the front ranks fighting with us. Akhmat is a force! And it's so funny that you remembered Chechnya, when the situation in Chechnya then completely repeats what Ukraine has been doing with Donbass for the last 8 years. What is the difference or is it something else?

[@annndddrre]

Poor people.. It breaks my heart..

[@titusgeorge6318]

Brave Ukraine people . Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@MERISI001]

The dignity and decency of Ukrainians is a powerful weapon. Something Russia is only now starting to learn about.

[@Jafmanz]

I’m not sure a woman surrounded by trees morning about having no firewood is decent or dignified.

[@ioannisargyratos6024]

Great Ukrainian People Respect!!!🇺🇦❤️🇬🇷

[@gregmulligan2878]

God bless the freedom loving people of Ukraine, and damn those who started this war.

[@terence2678]

Imagine if they put this on the Russian TV news instead of the made up stuff they watch.

[@mpingo91]

The Russians would only conclude that some group of Ukrainian or Western saboteurs has taken over the TV station and is spreading vile propaganda. Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, a Polish writer who survived the Gulag, describes in his book how on his way to the mobilization point (he was released from the camp so that he could join the Polish army under an agreement forced by the West) met a group of Russian women on a train. They were young communist workers, full of enthusiasm for the system. When he mentioned that he had come out of the gulag, describing the drastic details of life (and death!) there, they didn't believe him. That's not true. There are no such places in Russia - they declared.

[@beb5816]

Yes. I agree. Its a propaganda war. So don't believe anyone, but watch everyone.

[@iberiano-ls2rv]

Russians will know the truth , all is documented. They will know that they are partners in crime, as they are morally responsible for the obliteration of a country. They support this war so they are guilty. History is being written.

[@LittleMelianna]

Russians won't believe

[@rodneyws1977]

I think those people are too far gone. The propaganda machine has warped their minds. It's easy to draw parallels to something similar in America.

[@bron1292]

This war has promoted total loathing of all things russian. The cruel barbarity shown to other human beings will never be forgotten. Glory and peace for Ukrainians. 🇺🇦

[@alonsocushing2263]

That sort of behaviour is part of the DNA of Russia.

[@vladimir6542]

@@alonsocushing2263 And what is part of your DNA? Congenital dementia? Since you and your kind believe in all these lies that they show and tell you about Russia.

[@alonsocushing2263]

@@vladimir6542 Tell me what the truth about Russia is then.

[@telviet8871]

Khốn kiếp bọn phát xít!!!

[@vladimir6542]

@@alonsocushing2263 The truth is that Russia is protecting its people. No need to lie and turn everything the other way around.

[@kathleenreilly7657]

Poor people what they endured , what for? Glory to Ukraine from Ireland 🇮🇪.

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

Ireland endured something similar. And endured. 🙏🇺🇸🫂🇮🇪

[@brandonhoszkiw9395]

Thank you, for the time and energy you all put into covering this horrible War..

[@becky8571]

I hope TIME magazine names Ukrainians “People of the Year”. They deserve it.

[@dianawoods6991]

Save our friends of Ukraine 💗🎽👍

[@kathrinekerns8398]

😣😣😣so very sad. My heart goes out to these people.

[@suigeneris3909]

Вечный позор России 😢

[@tra757200]

instead of asking what will they do this winter, why not ask them what they need. I don't mean the war ending, but a blanket, cloths, heater, generator, etc. Tell then world what they need to survive the winter.

[@georgewashington7312]

Most of them look a bit thin, so I imagine they could use some hi carb vegetables, and pork with plenty of fat that they could render and use for later.

[@tra757200]

@Fire Marshal Bill Did I say send them direct? Donating is assumed, but in their position, would you rather someone asks "what are you going to do" or "what do you need help with"and then a one liner about how to help.

[@EMvanLoon]

It still feels strange for me to 'like'/thumbs up videos like this... but this must be seen for the world.

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

I know, But the more likes the more it gets seen by others because of how the algorithm works. Liking and commenting helps more to see it brother. I get the same feeling as you when I like a tragic video of something I wish never happened

[@jeanneromaine3146]

I was disrespectful to a pro Kremlin war monger here trolling I'm sorry. 😂🤣. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦♥. May God protect these beautiful people, and their children and grandchildren.

[@phil20_20]

You should respect their trolling on KZbin. Soon, they won't even have that left!

[@monirakhan5118]

Ameen

[@c.erine78]

You don't have to worry, we all have tangled with a Troll a time or two. Most of us just call them bots and ignore them now. No one will be angry at you. ❤

[@dirkdenvlaming6583]

Bes strong !💙💛 🙏🤞

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

Bes... From the happy Monday's?

[@denisep1997]

😢😢😢god help these poor people, please let there be peace soon. 🙏

[@KuopassaTv]

Hire someone to drive firewood to the vill

[@samanthav8728]

Whoa, this never ceases to pull on my heart-strings seeing and hearing how The Ukrainians survive this onslaught of hatred. I am so sorry Ukraine for your sufferings. May God be there with you and see you all through this. 💛💪🏼🔱💙

[@brianc.1149]

@@MrMoses86 Ukraine is a sovereign country, and does NOT have to abide by anything the Russian Federation tells them to. On the other hand, the Kremlin is the head of a sovereign state as well, and will have to accept its destruction when the west gets off their asses and realizes this is a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, not a political issue.

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

RuZZia has zero rights to tell Ukraine it can't join a defensive alliance. NATO did not invade Ukraine or Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine. NATO gets invited. What are you, retarded? Is it inbreeding? Do you only marry your cousins? What caused your mental weakness that you can't see the obvious here...🤔

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

Plus, Ukraine didn't ask to join NATO until "AFTER" RuZZia invaded... So RuZZia attacked because Ukraine "might" join NATO? You are incredibly stupid or extremely brainwashed. Try looking at the facts. Just the facts. Who invaded who? Who is bombing civilians in a neighbors country? Who is saying do what I say or get bombed? Russia is... Not NATO.... NATO is not even in this war yet.

[@dorotazapolnik234]

@@MrMoses86 Are you still repeating outdated Kremlin’s propaganda nobody in possession of theirs fool faculties believes anymore ? Why don’t you start looking for the next name, next flag , next dictator for the next version of Mother Russia ? This fascist regime with it’s geriatric ex Soviet spy is collapsing fast .

[@johnwayne3085]

Maybe Ukraine should have not bombed Crimea for the last 8 years, or threatened to join NATO. Or the US involvement in Zelensky being president.

[@Adv-vr1uh]

Pay attention that most of the people in this video answers in Ukrainian rather than in russian. Before the war, Donetsk was considered a russian-speaking region. The fact that they switched to Ukrainian can tell you about how russians treated them more than anything else.

[@pakde8002]

I saw a video of a Russian speaking Jew fighting for Ukraine. He promised after the war he'll be taking classes in Ukrainian. He no longer wants anything to do with Russian culture.

[@aljo5]

Poor people, how can we help them, its so complicated.

[@Vusha100]

When I watch these sad pictures, I can tell how humanity has evolved very little since WW2

[@minoguirguis4517]

Yup.... at least, how the Russians, have evolved very little since their "victory" over the Nazis and they themselves are fascists now and they were fascists then!

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

Humanity has not evolved. Technology has. Turn off the electricity for 6 months and you will see how much we have evolved

[@cwalker2741]

Pure Savages…Glory to Ukraine❤

[@maverick4177]

🇺🇦 🙏🏻

[@nurseSean]

Horrible and sad but still more examples of the Ukrainian resilience and strength of character. Слава Україні

[@choppering]

My heart is bleeding for Ukraina. Slava Ukraini.

[@ebonihaynes3387]

The Russian are heartless. Very soon Russia will have no people living in their country

[@nataliiateteruk585]

They need now - today and just currently blankets, gloves, firewood, water (or the means to clean lakewater) and powerbank!

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

Giant circus tents with bunkbeds n heaters would be easier to do fast....

[@HAPninKEN]

LONG LIVE UKRAINE

[@beverleykorte1536]

SLAVA FOR ALL OF UKRAINE 💙💛 Powerful and Strong GO GO GO Ukraine Love peace harmony Joy Faith 💙💛 😢😢😢😢😢🙏🙏💙💛🇧🇧🇺🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦💕💕💕💕

[@elizabethfraser3270]

No words can describe these atrocities. I still can’t get my mind round it to start to understand.

[@gloriagavaneli9862]

May God and all the saints protect the people of Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@jaydibernardo4320]

If only ordinary Russians were able to watch videos like this they'd come to the realization of the horror of war & how unnecessary it is. Perhaps then they could rise up & end this nightmare.

[@cskvision]

It's time for all Kremlin buildings and Putler's $1.4 billion palace to match the look of these homes

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

Yep

[@williambrooks639]

These folks are the true meaning of badass!!!! God bless America and Slava Ukraine 👍

[@riparianlife97701]

It never occurred to Russia to try to make it look like the people they "liberated" were well off.

[@josimpson7999]

So very sad for the poor people of Ukraine. Their resilience and determination to keep fighting is a powerful lesson to us all. Russia take note!

[@tomitabratu4422]

😥😥😥

[@sineirsnapic]

Poor people :(

[@verlindaallen3335]

These beautiful innocent people have lived lives in these villages growing food for everyone in their communities. Look puppy's and kitten's were born. They are elderly and stuck to live in this hell. It's sickening. Shame on poopin for doing this and Shame to his military.

[@soreeyez]

Thank u, America government for sponsoring "Radio Free Europe". 😘

[@fairstnaimelastenaime1346]

It's raining here in WA like, cold as F, and I can imagine the misery of being subjected to those elements 24/7....where's bill gates and the billionaires to help where gov't apparently won't?

[@heikelinnemann-muller2622]

GOD BLESS THIS BRAVE UKRAINIEN PEOPLE ✌️ 🇺🇦 ♥️🐕🐈‍⬛✌️🇺🇦🇺🇦🙏🇺🇦❤️💙💛THE UKRAINIEN BRAVE SOLDIERS ARE HEROS 🇺🇦🇺🇦🙏🙏❤️❤️💙💛🇺🇦GLORY TO TJE UKRAINE 🇺🇦✌️🙏🇺🇦❤️💙💛✌️❤️❤️🇺🇦

[@solodad7999]

Be strong people of Ukraine and thank czarina puti for your suffering.

[@peter9180]

Tough people, good luck.

[@tinitus23]

Relevant quotes from Voltaire: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities'...'War turns into wild beasts, those who were meant to live as brothers'.

[@u.h.h4915]

❤️‍🩹💙💛❤️‍🩹🫂🫂🫂♥️🙏🏻♥️✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

[@madmax5841]

Shout out to the equal and brave 6 million Ukrainian women who fled and left behind their sons and husbands

[@letshavepie]

There are many Ukrainian women also fighting or serving in logistical roles. The women who fled, especially those who fled with children, have made it easier for the soldiers to concentrate on the battle, knowing that their families are safe and can return once the Russians have been pushed back.

[@madmax5841]

@@letshavepie There are less than 300k soldiers and additional 100k volunteers in the armed forces, so over 5 million women actually had civilian sons and husbands

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

Shout out to them for keeping their children safe while their husband's can kill the ork invaders without worrying about their childrens safety from russian terrorism. Shout out to the 60,000 Ukrainian women who are in actual combat roles killing cowardly orks.., Sexy and Snipers. Shout out to the russian wifes of conscripted fodderites who turned to prostitution because russia sent their husband's to die but will not pay the family mortages and bills... Shout out to the 59 year old diabetic conscript freezing in a shallow foxhole with no food, water or ammunition whose commanders abandoned him a week ago with a rusty mohsin and a tampon...

[@letshavepie]

@@madmax5841 So? If invaders come into your country, what are you going to do? Run or fight? Most men will fight because most of them aren't cowards. And they will get their wives, mothers, and children the hell out of the way if they can, because family is important. If your response is "seeeee, women and men are different!", yeah, that's true. Different and equally important and not all the same from person to person. Grow up.

[@srccde]

@@letshavepie You just agreed with him without even realising it. You said "Most men will fight because most of them aren't cowards" which, in turn, means that anyone who flees is a coward, including all the women - which is precisely what the original comment claimed. Point is: men are *expected* to die fighting while everyone's fine with women just leaving. That's a fucked up logic. Either everyone's in it together in the same way, or no one is.

[@stormbytes]

Just so heartbreaking

[@ajrlima2659]

Horrible 😞💔

[@paudsmcmack3117]

Before the place looked like crap, now it looks like hell...

[@pakde8002]

Why can't we do more to end this genocide? It's so heartbreaking I almost want to throw my phone in the trash because it's too much seeing in real time a tragedy and knowing it could happen to anyone and no one would dare to help if it's a superpower doing the destruction. It's just pure evil and all we can think to do is send some weapons.

[@BlueSky-go4rb]

Tyrants and dictatorships are worst things on earth 👎👎👎 They caused so much pain and lives 👎👎👎

[@Victor-kq5ti]

To the lady who said “ feel for us” we do feel a lot for you. America is with Ukraine. I’ve donated myself and hope others do the same ( verify the charity)

[@AdamWaltersPDX]

Alright. Give them more HIMARS.

[@hansericsson7058]

We absolutly must do more for this people! Evacuate the ones who want that and help the others with warm clothes and some shelter and food.

[@javiermartinezjr8849]

Wow a person's town and whole lives memories and all around day to to day life was destroyed and is only growing colder and darker literally and figurituvly but she still wishes that although "impossible" people would come to the table..... Such is the heart of the ukranians woman and people, but the men I do not seeing ever forgiving them and fighting till the last drop of blood or atleast although Mexican is how my father always taught me in case we were ever attacked.god bless the world

[@morg444]

The world needs to tariff everything Russian to pay for fixing Ukraine!

[@aeonsbeyond]

They will never pay

[@papwithanhatchet902]

I feel for you, Ukraine. Slava Ukraini!

[@AVESTON]

It's horrible

[@piconano]

This is why aliens come here and never land before leaving. I don't blame them one bit.

[@righteousbyfaithinChrist]

Rparations is due! Putin crimes are horrifying t witness. Victory to Ukraine. God bless Ukraine.Young, old, families, singles have all suffered....

[@phil20_20]

They need Federal 000 Power-Shok Buckshot for drones. Maybe kerosene heaters help. They make stoves too, and there are small generators that run off burning wood, enough to charge a phone battery. 🔋

[@robertbrooks6167]

RFE/RL Ukraine needs your help. Ukraine needs you to recruit over the radio waves for drone operators within Russia.

[@AVESTON]

I can't believe humans did this

[@michunel7022]

4:10 She said not russian soldiers shoot at her but “buryats”, it is a mongolic ethnic group living in russia. Strange mistake…

[@TomorrowWeLive]

yeah they want to conceal the true nature of the Eurasian Neo-Bolshevik horde

[@larsfinlay7325]

let's do away with Russia like they did away with Prussia

[@bellbookcandle3051]

Lol Well, I have close ancestors from Prussia... but I get your point! 😏👍

[@user-lw2kn9qx6h]

когда войска РФ были в этом городе-кто по ним стрелял?чья артиллерия?

[@cs5414]

As a non-Russian who spoke enough Russian to be able to communicate, I lived in Kazakhstan and travelled alone by train and bus throughout the former Soviet Union from 1995 to 2007. I taught English in several different schools. Many people thought I was from the "pre-Baltic" countries. The ordinary people that I met in the open air markets, busses and trains were emotionally normal despite generations of brutality and devastating wars. Please do not abhor and hate people who have never had any control over their lives and have endured so much suffering. Please do not blame powerless people for the evils of their tyrant rulers whose only rule is "might is right." These tyrants do have equally brutal supporters who gain power from their allegiance to brutality. Right now, and for many future years, Ukrainians need all the help that the rest of the world can provide. However, do not hate all Russians when only a minority are responsible for past, present and future evil. Hatred only begets more and more hatred.

[@MrDopug]

While I understand your statement, the problem is that they have allowed their country to be governed by dictators and tyrants due to their inaction. I am sorry, but seeing all the devastation caused by their rulers, why should the Ukrainians have bear the brunt of their totally corrupt society. Maybe if their lights are cut off, they have no electricity to heat their homes, they have no food to eat....maybe then they will rise up against their oppressors. I have no sympathy for them. They are complicit in their inaction.

[@edurivera2219]

Señor por los niños, civiles y mascotas que termine todo esto y se largue Rusia de una vez

[@zebramike100]

These people and the solders need sleeping bags that are rated for forty below zero right now,I would be glad to give to that cause.Can anyone cite A honest charity to have this place

[@michaelhernandez3041]

The more putin tries to break these people the stronger and more resolved he seems to make them Russian people are already tired of the war they started and they haven't been subjected to the brutality that the Ukrainians have had dropped on them.

[@juhahuovio3548]

kasakka minna venakko

[@obsidianjane4413]

So sad. And its unlikely that the Russians will ever be made to pay reparations for all the mindless destruction they've caused.

[@c.erine78]

The only thing I would like to say is this (I am not trying to nasty, I hope no one takes it as so) If there is no firewood, find a saw and get out into those woods or a house that was wooden and start gathering wood, do it now before it is too cold to move, surely there are people who can help with that? I would organize the village for winter instead of waiting for it to come to me..

[@kkpenney444]

You don't know they're not doing that. But by all means let the 'only thing you have to say' be a judgement on people who have been through horrors you couldn't even imagine.

[@cs5414]

The majority of the Ukrainians who stayed in villages during months of occupation are elderly. All housing, schools, health care, power and water facilities are destroyed. Anything useful and portable has been stolen. People sleep in the one or two sets of clothing they have. Food packets are brought by volunteers. Murdered relatives and friends are buried in gardens or missing. Is it reasonable to expect these people, in winter weather, to scavenge tools and then chop down trees for wet firewood and logs for cabins?

[@tessietesoro7407]

It would take 20 years to rebuild Ukraine when war ends, depends if Russia will pay for rebuilding.

[@user-oi3yb7mm7h]

While in the human realm, train your heart to be compassionate so that you can return to heaven. If you still harbour greed, hatred and delusion, you will not achieve any level of spirituality in this life.

[@djpomare]

Day 253: Russia still targeting Ukrainian grain, power and water supplies in Europe's boring war. America are still the only monsters to have used nuclear weapons against Japan 77 years ago.

[@mariegarcia2856]

God bless every soul in Ukraine, especially in the thick of putos war. I wish puto would disappear never to return with his oligarchs. Take the wanna be dictator of the USA with these Republican wanna be oligarchs. Rid all of them. Ship them out to Sea all together never to return ever, keep the world a little safer.

[@neilfletcher4951]

Areas they shelled....

[@nluke8930]

Continue the proxy war!!! Just people / civilians are suffering coz of politics.

[@the-ugly-truth9653]

🇷🇺❤️🇷🇺🇷🇺 support all our COMRADES

[@David.Anderson]

Like I said Russians, fighting Russians, the US needs to stay out of this war stop spending the American people‘s money on this war.

[@HaremScarem1776]

CIA-founded so fake

[@vonFisch]

You are fake

[@HaremScarem1776]

@@vonFisch 😂

[@sorvit]

boo-boo. Reporter - whose technique is this? Grandma is the Russians who came to kill me.... Fucked up, and there's an armored car with the symbols of Ukraine!!!!! Aren't you ashamed there at all? 😂😂

[@namur-iq6ih]

When the West criticize Russia of alleged war crimes in Ukraine, remember the bombing of Tokyo. Tokyo residents who lost their homes as a result of the U.S. bombings, March 10, 1945. The Operation Meetinghouse air raid of 9-10 March 1945 was later estimated to be the single most destructive bombing raid in history. Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, only 38 years old at the time, made one of the most consequential decisions of the war. As head of the 21st Bomber Command on Guam, LeMay chose to abandon America's longtime strategy of daylight high-altitude precision attacks in favor of burning Japanese cities in low-level nighttime raids. For his inaugural strike on the night of March 9, 1945, he set his sights on Tokyo. LeMay's 12-square-mile target area, which was 87.4 percent residential, had an average population density of 103,000 people per square mile, meaning the bombs fell largely on the kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms of the Japanese capital's working-class civilians. LeMay justified the decision because many such homes doubled as small factories, a vital cottage industry that fed parts to Japan's ravenous war machine. LeMay's incendiary bombs targeted an area that was 87% residential, with 103,000 people per square mile. He deliberately attacked the homes of Tokyo's working-class civilians. The general likewise knew that incendiary bombs did not discriminate. The fires his bombers ignited would consume everything and everyone in their path, from factory and armaments workers to artists, teachers and housewives. "We knew we were going to kill a lot of women and kids when we burned that town," he later wrote. "Had to be done." To his aides, LeMay was even more blunt. "If we lose," he warned, "we'll be tried as war criminals." At 12:07 a.m., his first bomber unloaded on the Japanese capital. For the next 142 minutes, nearly 300 planes dropped 1,665 tons of incendiaries. These napalm-filled explosives were designed to punch through the metal and tile roofs of shops and homes, spraying flaming jellied gasoline on walls, furniture and bedding. Hundreds of blazes soon erupted, ultimately melding into a massive tidal wave of fire that rolled across the city. Temperatures amid the conflagration soared as high as 2,800°F., hot enough to melt concrete, liquefy asphalt and fuse coins together. "The town was a blazing hell," recalled survivor Sumi Ogawa, "lit by the swirling and roiling flames." American airmen in the skies overhead inhaled the acrid aroma of the dying city, including the sickening stench of burnt flesh, from dogs and horses to mothers and fathers. "It was," remembered pilot Charles Phillips, "the smell of death." The sun rose the next morning to reveal an apocalyptic wasteland. The attack incinerated 16 square miles of Tokyo and killed 105,000 men, women and children. Another 40,000 people suffered injuries and a million were left homeless. "There was still a light wind blowing," one reporter observed, "and some of the bodies, reduced to ashes, were scattering like sand." Back in Washington, officials monitored the nation's editorial pages and radio broadcasts for evidence that the killing of civilians might spark outrage among the American public. Those fears, however, proved unfounded. "Properly kindled," Time magazine declared, "Japanese cities will burn like autumn leaves." The lack of any public outcry served as a green light for LeMay, who over the next five months proceeded to burn dozens of Japanese cities. His initial focus on urban industrial areas, like Tokyo, where home factories contributed to the war effort, faded as the attacks continued and his list of cities dwindled. In the latter raids, as the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey noted, the No. 1 factor driving target selection was a city's "combustibility." America, in short, was waging war against Japan's civilians. "The preponderant purpose appears to have been to secure the heaviest possible morale and shock effect by widespread attack upon the Japanese civilian population," the Strategic Bombing Survey concluded. "Certain of the cities attacked had virtually no industrial importance." In the 177 days from his strike on Tokyo until the Japanese surrender on board the USS Missouri, LeMay torched 66 Japanese cities, leveling 178 square miles. Of all those operations, LeMay's raid on Tokyo proved one of the deadliest, rivaled only by the fatalities caused by the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the waning days of the war. All told, America's bombing campaign against the Japanese homeland killed 330,000 people, injured nearly a half million more, and left 8.5 million homeless. "Curtis LeMay," observed his biographer Warren Kozak, "ordered the deaths of more civilians than any other man in U.S. history. No one else comes close, not William Tecumseh Sherman, not George S. Patton - no one."

[@bastion4311]

Hay bro 1 BMP and a group of Ukrainian soldiers hit by a mine bang bang were killed and destroyed awww, 150 Ukrainian mercenaries bang bang were killed in orlyanka. Dozens of Ukrainian tanks were destroyed in donbas wkwkwk and a convoy of Ukrainian tanks in bakhmut bang bang crushed like nuts.. Uraaaaaa

[@cdechirume2979]

Viva Russia think of Palestine before u think of these naz8s led by a 🤡

[@dollarisinsanicus9256]

Putin = The Insane The Nuevo MAD DOG, evil to the bone, Dude, just suck it up Dude, just suck it up Russia doesn't have an Army, it has a Horde all dogs and other animals are cursing Russia "Russians" are Not Citizens of a Country,they are People on the Territory, that is like animals on the farm

[@John_1.1]

Not many left in the Cheer for Russia Club: Just North Korea, Syria and Belarus and that Chechen warlord. Nice bunch of friends you have there.

[@dollarisinsanicus9256]

@@John_1.1 Zenga Zenga Chibre Chibre Dar Dar Bit Bit Zanga Zanga

[@PradeepKumar-ww1xu]

Well done Russia 🇷🇺 👏 👍

[@iramehra2774]

Karma is a beech

[@kingdomofgeorgia1751]

@@iramehra2774 Don't be surprised. Historically, India is pro-Russians, and so are majority of Indians. But they are all over in the world for money 😊

[@TomorrowWeLive]

hope Pakistan decides to liberate you soon. With nukes.

[@iramehra2774]

@@kingdomofgeorgia1751 They are all in London now, i thought they would move to russia

[@kingdomofgeorgia1751]

@@iramehra2774 They are everywhere. Medical school with Indians in Georgia, and many bad experiences with them. They have two legs. One leg is in progressive country to make money. The other leg is in totalitarian state.

[@rodneyagesa1851]

I guess we will hear different stories once the Russians liberate those places in the near future.

[@brianc.1149]

WAKE UP! Sorry, I think you are having an unrealistic dream. Your military can't get it done so now you're out recruiting from equally despicable countries to fight your war!

[@sigmaputin6888]

Hands up if you support the special military operation 🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️😌

[@no-oneinparticular7264]

Grow up

[@yisakii8397]

@@no-oneinparticular7264 and you wake up

[@thomashedeby8460]

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@PapaGringo1]

K.................U............R..................W............A.................ruZZia. We are Slaves just like our UkrainI brothers and sisters. But we choose to kill them. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@rainerallacher4907]

😂🤦‍♂️

[@aeonsbeyond]

Ey i love Ukraians but come on Grandmother YOU CANT LIVE IN RUINS ALL WINTER LIKE ANIMALS, you should go west, you have to go, there is only death in the ruins in winter

[@redegeldunit420]

Beautiful art of propaganda by Ukraine.

[@builderman7979]

Have you also written furiously about the American occupation of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq?

[@builderman7979]

@Hans-Martin Balz kzbin.info/www/bejne/m37Fp3eLi9Bom5Y

[@vladimir6542]

What interesting subtitles are here. Grandfather at 3:17 says about the shelling from the plane, but does not say whose it was, but the authors wrote for grandfather that the plane was Russian. Grandma at 4:00 says that the vehicle is from the "Katsaps", not the Russians. Do you also translate to the USA? If someone calls a black person a "nigger", will you also translate as "American"? And why didn't you show those people who met the Russian soldiers as their own and didn't have time to leave with them during the retreat, and now the SBU has taken them to an unknown direction and where they are nobody knows and what awaits them now. "Ukropatriots" killed "collaborators", and how many of the same "collaborators" were in the city when the Russians came there, also show, you are the media, not propaganda, right?

[@chas721]

So the Russian fascists destroyed (in the most literal sense of the word) this village and you take umbrage at the use of the word 'Katsap'? ROTFLMAO. Over centuries, Russia has shown itself without peer when it comes to destroying people (to include its own) and what is happening in Ukraine is not unexpected behavior.

[@vladimir6542]

@@chas721 Russia occupied Liman back in May, there was no fierce fighting then, Ukraine retreated and blew up the bridge. After that, ordinary life was restored in the city. Since then, Ukraine has regularly tried to recapture the city, so who, you Nazi scum, destroyed the city, tell me? And don't make me laugh about the history. I will smear you in this matter to the nines. Most of all people in the entire history of mankind, if we take real facts, and not your fantasies, it was the Anglo-Saxons who destroyed them. This is a historical fact, do you want to talk about it, lying nazi trash?

[@Victorseafog]

What a worthless load of BS

[@vladimir6542]

@@Victorseafog worthless load of BS in your head, victim of propaganda

[@chas721]

@@vladimir6542 Moscalii - enjoy the HIMARS raining down on the Russian fascists occupying Ukraine. Russia does one thing well and that is filll zinkys to send back to the motherland. 😆