On the Ground In Donbas: Ukraine, Russia & ‘Unworthy Victims,’ w/ Fergie Chambers

When most people in the West think of the war in Ukraine, they think of February 24, 2022 when Russia bombed Kiev. But for 8 years prior, there had been a war raging in the eastern part of the country that received little attention because its reality was inconvenient for mainstream Western narratives.
In the Donbas region, an estimated 15,000 people had died following what many there described as a US-backed coup in 2014 that gave rise to an anti-Russia government and helped empower far-right sentiments across Ukraine.
To discuss the war in the Donbas, Rania Khalek was joined by Fergie Chambers of Berkshire Communists and a journalist who recently published a piece in Globetrotter about his time in the Donbas, titled “A Donbas Diary: Looking Back at Early Stages of Conflict in Ukraine.”
Fergie’s article discussed in this episode: www.newsclick.in/donbas-diary...
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[@TheSteve8rox]

rena is short for renal

[@golden-heartcity3852]

Donbus Johnny didn't know USSR "victory" was ussr invading Poland in 1939 then carma hitting them in the ass.. this pod cast is a joke

[@dBoogieNights]

the entire territory of the modern state of Ukraine was captured by the Mongols in 1240, Batu Khan burned Kiev. BUT... There has never been a Mongol invasion on the vast territories of the Novgorod and Pskov Russian principalities! and these are the territories of modern Russia.

[@robertharneis9506]

An extremely lucid and convincing interview about the Donbass and Moldavia and what is really going on there.

[@CinCee-]

Eva K Bartlett has done excellent on the ground reporting on The Donbas

[@user-fg6vm8hq6i]

There was also one hot french Anne-Laure Bonnelle, but as I remember, she was canceled

[@conormcelroy1898]

Bonnel made the doc called "Donbass" - it's a harrowing must watch

[@samaval9920]

There are also Alina Papp from Germany (in German), Alejandro Kirk (from ?? with S American TeleSUR), Earl Grey (England, Mike Jones), Patrick Lancaster (US, resident of Donbas), Graham Philips (England), at least 1 Italian man-??, etc.

[@sophiabahantka5594]

Proaganding on the Donbas

[@samibayeh9017]

Thank you guys for seeking the truth. Greetings from Lebanon 🇱🇧. Excellent channel

[@MsOceanstar]

Thanks for Rania for this episode! Great to hear someone who was in Donbass in person. About time more people are educated properly re this war!

[@klauskinski5969]

problem is it doesnt change anything. this channel itself is the perfect example. so far i know he isnt the first guest talking about ukraine attacking civilians the last 8 years and yet the channel and all host take the position that putin was wrong and should seek even more diplomatic talks to find a solution, despite all the admits that the counterparts wherent interested in any diplomatic solution. this channel is a joke. its slightly better then msm, but like them, they dont learn from their guests.

[@MsOceanstar]

Yes, I am aware. They all need our support and more audience.

[@EHed-kv2wb]

How when he lied about 15,000 "civilians" dead during the 8 years when the UN report is only above 3,000.

[@rashmigupta9]

Very clear headed guest with a great way of presenting his thoughts. Wishing him success in extracting his family's hoarded wealth for better use 😆 Great discussion 👍

[@lawistruth]

Very!

[@jeffbguarino]

The guy is an idiot and has almost everything wrong about Russia speakers in Ukraine.

[@jessiejb4684]

The NGO’s in Eastern Europe are huge. Very interesting topic

[@Lionfish5656]

Also, its the older people in these countries that are more sympathetic to Russia. In addition, Slovakia, Bulgaria & Hungary are the EU members whose populations are the most sympathetic to/pro Russia & they were ex Warsaw Pact nations. That is very rarely pointed out. Instead, we largely hear a rather Polish-centric narrative about life in the Warsaw Pact countries & about Russia that is parroted en masse in the Baltics, Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic & Croatia, all of which, including Poland collaborated with the NAZIs except for the Czechs.

[@djape1977]

Majority of NGOs in eastern Europe are directly NWO, CIA and Soros funded

[@kenhart8771]

Why? Soros NGOs are ruining Europe

[@kenhart8771]

@@Lionfish5656Are from Europe and did live here during the Cold War?

[@Lionfish5656]

@@kenhart8771 Nope, I got it from reading.

[@tatianaaust8827]

Thanks for inviting Fergie Chambers! He gave very insightful and accurate assessment of the situation in Donbas! Красава!

[@user-nf5ut9g1y]

Indeed!

[@EHed-kv2wb]

How when he lied about 15,000 "civilians" dead during the 8 years when the UN report is only above 3,000.

[@steved1387]

Fabulous and enlightening conversation, Rania. Thanks so much to you and Fergie.

[@HK-zf7op]

he is wrong on some basic facts

[@aarondizor1069]

​@@HK-zf7op How wrong? Because it doesn't conform with the west narrative? You are an obvious victim of west propaganda and believe in their lies!!!

[@EHed-kv2wb]

How when he lied about 15,000 "civilians" dead during the 8 years when the UN report is only above 3,000.

[@ivflash6363]

@@HK-zf7op which ones, could you elaborate please?

[@HK-zf7op]

For 1. There were not 15,000 civilian dead between 2014-2021 the facts are public only 3400 civilians killed about 1/3 from separatist shelling, 6500 militia soldiers & 4500 Ukr army & 500 Russian soldiers. The story of 8 yrs of shelling is russian propaganda only 7 civilians died in 2021 with 79 Ukr army killed along the contact line. most deaths occurred between 2014-15 before Minsk agreements. Public health care did not shut down in 2014 neither did universities, neither was austerity "imposed",as Ukraine defaulted on foreign currency debt and restructured, its budget was also under stain as Russian no longer paid for the Crimean naval base, reduced gas transit fees and wasn't bailing out the corrupt Yanukoych regime with a 12bn loan. It also lost large tax revenues from large industrial/mining companies in Donbass which was about 25% of GDP. It was not a civil war what he doesn't say is how the Russian GRU stoked fears of the Kyiv government from 2004 onwards and look up all the initial leaders of the rebellion they were all Russian citizens not locals (Alexandr Borodai, Girkin aka Strelkov , Akyansov in Crimea a criminal non entity who ran as a Russian funded independence party who no one voted for in the last free Ukr elections). He says many people fled to Russia from Donbass Fact: UN displaced people report 1.5m fled to Ukraine 0,5m to Russia. I have done business in both Russian and Ukraine and know quite a few "Russian" Ukrainians who fled westwards as they were lucky enough to be well educated and could work elsewhere who wanted nothing to do with a bunch of criminals imposed and funded by Russia. Its funny how these commentators understand nothing about how the anti Russian and nationalist sentiment has grown because of the Russian invasion in 2014. Look up the long history of the Russification of Ukraine since Tzarist times.

[@liliyakisliuk6497]

Just , big thank you very much for this interview and discussion of the so many aspects ,and subjects especially on socialistic way of living,Donbass , and etc. Just bravo! Thanks!

[@leslierodricks2701]

Fantastic interview! Very educative! Thank you both!

[@oldfan1963]

Thanks for this interview. Really enlightening. Will forward to my acquaintances who still believe "my country, right or wrong."

[@klauskinski5969]

the problem is, rania khalek and her channel have literally the attitude of unworthy victims. rewatch their videos about the conflict. they never sided with russia.

[@samaval9920]

Actually, Western corporate capitalist empire’s country-- who is “ours”/we? Princeton University did a survey that showed that over 90% of bills in US Congress are pro private corporate capitalist, almost nothing for majority of American workers + others.

[@guytouquet]

Something people used to say that they don't say anymore: "It's a free country."

[@benbo7042]

You are absolutely right.

[@evelynread3156]

I still say it but now they freeze bank accounts for it.🇨🇦

[@galanis38]

One thing Fergie gets wrong at the beginning is on the history of the Donbas: All the major cities of eastern and southern Ukraine were founded in the late 1700s by Catherine the Great. By the time the Soviet Union came about, this was already the industrial heartland of Ukraine. For the rest, thanks Rania and Fergie for a very informative talk.

[@ovidiudraghici9941]

Not the only thing he got wrong, but still pretty well informed for a Westerner.

[@jillfryer6699]

Founded in the time of Cath the Great, can't see her going in to dig foundations and footings but, question is, what was there before then? WHO was there before imperial Cath's city builders arrived? Are their descendants still there? What are their ideas on this matter?

[@galanis38]

@@jillfryer6699 The region was sparsely populated steppe before these cities were built under the aegis of Catherine. Before being taken over by Russia much of the region was part of the Ottoman Empire. One pre-existing ethnic group there were the Crimean Tatars, a Turkic group -- many of these left for Turkey and Central Asian areas when Russia took over from the Turks. Another group, slighly west of the Donbas and north of Crimea, were the Zaporizhian Cossacks -- some consider these among the "original" Ukrainians though they allied themselves with Imperial Russia against the Ottomans to the south and the Poles who occupied what is now western Ukraine. Catherine's city builders included European industrialists and architects many of whom brought their own workers from their countries, who ended up permanent residents in these cities. Odessa became an international city with lots of Greek, Italian, Jewish, and other emigres making up its growing population along with Russians and Ukrainians. What are the current people's of these areas ideas on the matter now? By all accounts the Crimeans are overwhelmingly Russian or pro-Russian and in great majority favored re-incorporation into Russia after the Maidan events in 2014. Sentiments are more divided in the other regions of eastern and southern Ukraine, but quite arguably more Russian-leaning than Kiev leaning.

[@bulldrumm]

Ukraina is a slavic word meaning " border land" military border land . Border land of russian empire.

[@ianstobie]

​@@jillfryer6699 it's worth reading up on this because it is not obvious. Before Peter the Great, his daughter the Empress Elizabeth and finally Catherine the Great eventually, over a long extended effort, militarily conquered the area, it was basically uninhabitable. This was because of extensive annual slaving raids conducted from the Crimean Khanate, which was a vassal state of the Ottoman empire. The slaves, sometimes tens of thousands of them a year, were sold to the Ottomans or died in transit. This pattern wasn't entirely novel - Byzantium too was a slave society, and the hard to defend steppe land to the north of the Black Sea was also a source of slaves to them. Indeed, even earlier the Roman poet Ovid vividly describes how people in the fields further south in modern-day Romania roughly 2,000 years ago had to run to the shelter of the city walls to escape marauding horse nomads keen to carry them off. This was at the start of each winter, when the Danube froze and raiders from the steppe were able to get across to raid south around Tomis, the small greek Black Sea trading post he'd been exiled to by Octavian (Caesar Augustus). So on the whole northern edge of the Black Sea and well inland, in what became southern Ukraine and southern Russia, settled agriculture and industrial activities such as mining were not possible until the slaving threat was removed. The workforce would simply be kidnapped. But some limited militarised settlement was possible along the wide rivers, and on the river islands, where Cossacks - who had their own horse warrior defensive system, were frontier pioneers from perhaps the late 15th century. They had a complex relationship with the tsars because they were themselves often outlaws and fugitives, but they could and did extend Russian or at least Slavic Christian influence into this very dangerous region. Peter the Great started the serious push into what became known at the time (and right up until 1917) as Novorossiya, "new Russia". He conscripted serfs from around Russia to build a Black Sea fleet once suitable ports were established at the river mouths. But he had to pull back to deal with the serious threat from Sweden in the north and concentrate on defending his gains on the Baltic, including Narva and St Petersburg. Catherine's forces later completed the conquest of the Novorossiya region and definitively ended the great slave raids. The region was then systematically repopulated, drawing in settlers from not just Tsarist ruled lands but in smaller numbers from further west, to pull in mining and industrial skills. Typical of the scholarly Catherine, the cities founded or refounded under her rule from the 1780s often have names derived from Greek - Odessa, Sevastopol and even Kherson. This was part of a wider strategic objective to establish or re-establish Greek orthodox Christian culture in the area and retake Constantinople. This last bit obviously didn't happen, partly because of British and French intervention in the next century to assist the Ottomans.

[@PikachooUpYou]

Wow Fergie is so excellent. I had never heard of him til now. I wish you could do regular discussion segments with him.

[@NuisanceMan]

Yeah, I hadn't heard of him either. He explains things so clearly and correctly. Such a great class traitor! He must be Jessica Mitford reborn.

[@GIVI727]

me too..ive been following this war since 2014 but never heard of him,i know Patrick lancaster and a lot more but fergie this the first time that i saw him

[@MC-in8mc]

@@NuisanceMan What do you mean by that? 🤔

[@kaushikbasu3778]

@@NuisanceMan Great comment! But then , after WW1 and the destruction of Imperial Europe, many of the left-leaning people were from the upper crust of the society. And yet, if one considers that two of her sisters were dedicated fascists, and the family was related by marriage to Winston C., then, indeed, Jessica Mitford was a class and family traitor.

[@GETJUSTICE4U]

​@@MC-in8mc Ignore these absurd quips. They are almost certainly mischievous trolls.

[@magnacarta9364]

48 people were killed on that day in Odessa, all while the police stood down and watched people who had jumped from the windows were beaten to death or actually shot by the thugs from western Ukr & Kiev.

[@rdsc.455]

All was recorded on news cameras. Some were telecasting live kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHa6hnR6oN58n6M kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKWod6CanqigbJo But TRAGIC JUSTICE kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3-smWeenap2opI

[@magnacarta9364]

@@rdsc.455 Notice the west uses propanda in its reporting. This was after a bloody coup hyjacked by the far right elements who are simply real Natsees. They were not pro Russian sepretist they just refused to except the fascist government take over.

[@HK-zf7op]

What about the pro Russian thugs that shot and killed a pro maiden activist at the pro Maiden camp earlier in the day? It was football holigans from Dnipro in Eastern part of Ukraine (not kiev or western ukr) who were in town for a match who stepped in to support the pro maiden activists who were being attacked while the police stood by doing nothing

[@christinehomer2185]

​​@@HK-zf7opFootball hooligans were Azov.I watched a young boy in the window watching people being beaten to death if they got out the windows by Azov thugs.The police stood by and watched that happening.

[@HK-zf7op]

@@christinehomer2185 They were ultras from Dnipro who were playing Odesa that day , as far as i know no Azov were actually involved that day the question remains though What about the pro Russian thugs that shot and killed a pro maiden activist at the pro Maiden camp earlier in the day that sparked the conflict? The shooter and the head of the local police escaped to Russia.

[@darleneshriver3270]

A lot of people still see think Russia is communistic and is still the Soviet Union Western countries the United States Canada has always tried to protect a portray it to its people.

[@andreasvictorious3991]

Why does Chambers support Russia then? As well as most communists?

[@artemg9753]

this conflict was established from the first days of the existence of modern Ukraine. Part of the population wanted independence, part wanted to preserve the union. Later, the first ones became pro-Western, the second - pro-Russian. Over time, this rift only worsened, because politicians constantly speculated on these topics, instead of consolidating society around unifying ideas. All this is reflected in electoral statistics of Ukrainian elections and other sociological studies. In the 14th year, the most radical pro-Western part of Ukrainian politics decided to stage a coup and the conflict entered an open phase. Funny fact - Ukrainians call the ousted Yanukovych pro-Russian because he refused to sign the European Association. However, it was Yanukovych who prepared it and refused at the last moment, because the European Union set unfavorable conditions for the Ukrainian economy. Simply put, he was not pro-Russian, he just knew how to count.)

[@yingxu7908]

in all front money，mafia，educations，political，religion…like the chinese example 1989 then lately hongkng，in the Russia case navalny ……

[@jonirischx8925]

This ls such an important point. People don't seem to understand that disbanding the USSR led to an insane amounts of reactionary nationalism in all the former people's republics. A lot of revisionist history and unfounded myth-making became commonplace in all of Eastern Europe, which escalates ethnic tensions, and pits peoples, who before could cooperate around common goals, against each other. Also, from the very beginning of contemporary Ukraine's formation, USAID and other so-called 'NGOs' established their foothold there, to work toward 'democratic goals'. Which apparently means making the country into a western debt-colony. Much democracy, very freedom, yes...

[@mackone8035]

Ying Xu Navalny is in the what now?

[@jokerwick]

Yeah Yanukovych was not even strictly pro-russian as you pointed out. He wanted favourable relations with both Russia and the EU and wanted Ukraine to trade with both.

[@aural_supremacy]

You totally ignored the the well known fact of genocidal fascist militia and the fact that the US planned that coup so I can help with the first Fascism in Ukraine kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmjap4GFlKt5hqc Shelling of Donbas civilians before they claimed independence 2014 CNN international kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGmchq2Gi9V9e68

[@ESuccessMasters]

The history economical , cultural and political ignorance in the collective west is Atrocious by design through MSM 🤣 Thanks Rania fir bringing great interviews and discussions

[@wandameadows5736]

So your ok with Russia's 2014 Invasion of Ukraine.

[@evelynread3156]

Are you ok with the US coup in 2014?? Are you okay with the slaughter of ethnic Russians by the Ukraine for 8 straight years??

[@phoebeampm4794]

@@wandameadows5736 Are you ok with the US invasions of Iraq, Lybia, Syria, Afghanistan and now backing Ukraine both financially and weaponry and all training ?

[@MC-in8mc]

@@wandameadows5736 Troll.😝 or or just stupid, you choose. This programme is for Adults and intelligentsia not MSM propaganda fed backward people.

[@jillfryer6699]

@@wandameadows5736 If it was me I'd have gone in a decade or more before! but Russians are smarter than me and got well provisioned first! OK?

[@20luzer52]

Great insights on the reality of Eastern Ukraine.

[@randyviray902]

Great conversation Rania w/Fergie! Hope we can have him back again to illuminate us on the socio-political conditions in US which are basically being micro-managed/manipulated by the ruling Elite class to advance the so-called Globalist Agenda. His actual life experiences, personal insights & family's ties with the Establishment/ Corporateism brings to the fore the underlying reason why America & the whole world is in turmoil now. Fergie's insights on how things happen & move around is truly remarkable & rare. Couldn't get them from other sources. Excellent interview & hoping to watch your next episode. Godspeed!

[@hercbos8704]

He’s knowledge about the roots of the conflict is better than those self named experts from State Department

[@fifi23o5]

They know damn well what is going on, they caused it, they are just playing stupid.

[@DomAtaGlance]

No it isn't. He doesn't even know that the 15k killed in the donbas only consist of 3l civilians

[@TwilightOfMoore1]

@dominic if you meant 'only' 3k civilians. I would happily trade your life for theirs. With your logic and brain function it would be great deal for those dead people of Donbass.

[@karrithebestlira3085]

if those on the Donbas didn't like Ukraine and loved Russia so much why didn't they just move to Russia? it was only a couple hundred miles away? I think people recognize a slum lord when they see one and Russia looks like a slum with poorly and cheaply built buildings and unimproved infrastructure.

[@karrithebestlira3085]

​@@DomAtaGlancewhat were the others ? I bet they were civilians in 2008. where do You think soldiers come from do you think they are grown on trees?

[@stevewbolanz3539]

Thank you for telling the truth.

[@kirillsegkov1544]

Hello to everyone from Crimea, Russia. Very honest conversation, thanks guys.

[@r.w.emersonii3501]

Terrific interview! Great host! Good chemistry. Solid information. The harm done by the U.S. Empire in eastern Europe is shocking.

[@tokachinter1]

My first time to listen to one of your podcasts and what a huge impression it has made on me. I was aware of what has happened in the Donbass since 2014, but there is nothing like hearing first hand from an articulate person like Fergie how the situation is on the ground there. Keep up the excellent work!

[@naturebc]

It's not a separatist sentiment. Most people in Ukraine could never imagine living separate from Russia. Donbass is Russia. They had to swallow breakup of Soviet Union and they went along with that, but they would never go along with turning Ukraine into anti-Russia.

[@HK-zf7op]

they voted overwhelmingly for independence in 1991

[@almitrondecepticon2091]

@@HK-zf7op Even Russia voted for independence. Even has its own independence day.

[@ovidiudraghici9941]

@@HK-zf7op you missed the main point, that they were not anti Russian

[@yvonneyork1263]

Fascinating guest. Knowledgeable and independent minded - truly a voice from the left. Enjoyed the spontaneity and energy of the exchange.

[@tigading2177]

truth doesn't care if you're right or left. it is a mistake to create boxes left or right, commie vs capitalist, one should look at the result, the outcomes.

[@A1488Christian]

Thank you for speaking in this. The Donbas people are exercising the spirit of 1776 and those who believe in democracy have to support them

[@rksocal2828]

The ironic part is this guy doesn't even believe in democracy, he's a self proclaimed "communist"...

[@hajtomjones4077]

Hear hear

[@damonw3838]

Are you joking? They want a communist dictatorship to restore itself to its former glory and conquest sovereign nations

[@dutchschultz3076]

Did hear from the beginning she said he Belongs to a communist group. Youve seen what happens to people who try to oppose putin. Communism/ bolsheviks are the biggest murderers on a mass scale since 1900.

[@Olegstuff21986]

Yep, but they were called vatniks, colorads, terrorists for it and the US separatists are portrayed aa heroes.

[@steveennever9905]

Remarkable interview. Great chemistry.

[@77Bardem]

A great, spontanous and very informative interview!! Thanks Rhania and Fergie 👍

[@ronburgandy1475]

What an intelligent interview! Proof you can't judge a book by it's cover. I was expecting Fergie to be the typical "rebellious rich boy" (his family is worth 30+ billion). But I was absolutely pleased to see a smart well spoken "self seeking" educationed, young man with real intellectual power. Kudos! Great interview and even right down to how at&t cut out in the eastern half of Ukraine. I can imagine much of his family would be "disappointed" or "semi hate" him and what he stands for but ironically it would be at their own ignorance of understand the everyday person and real world majority issues.

[@su2471]

How do you know? Who is his family?

[@TheDisinformationProjectNz]

​@@su2471 ya mom

[@ronburgandy1475]

@@su2471 my friend there's a really easy way to find out if what I said was true... 1 listen to him speak about his family. 2. Look them up! They aren't exactly hard to find.

[@acetabularia03]

@@su2471 He goes into it a bit during this interview kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJvdXpRqeZdjsJY

[@lawistruth]

​@acetabularia03 thank you!

[@tanyaluhrs8750]

Thank you for the interesting and informative conversation. It is nice to see there are young people who understand the concepts of the old ideology.

[@dudester415SR]

The US is more tied to disaster capitalism. It doesn’t mind destroying a place because in the end it just becomes an opportunity for the private contractors and big corporations to get contracts to rebuild and seize lands dealing with a desperate populace. So it all works out for them.

[@James-hd6ez]

And George Harrison warned us in 1966 in his classic song "Taxman " which he wrote with the Beatles " they'll tax your feet " ...coming soon to a western country near you!

[@tigading2177]

U$ is corporate vulture capitalism masquerading as a democracy.

[@bruceelniski]

Thanks for your great journalism! This canadian stands with Putin and Russia. I have been following Eva Bartlett, Patrick Lancaster and other brave souls willing to face the wrath of western media for their honest coverage of Ukraine and Syria. Cheers from Canada!!

[@201beatrice]

Wonderful interview Rania! I hope we will see you and Fergie on Jimmy Dore soon.

[@bruceelniski]

This canadian has great respect for jimmy Dore. Cheers from lethbridge alberta canada!!

[@frankcarlyle.liverpool]

Wow, first time I’ve ever seen Break Through News. What have I been missing.. The American journalist Fergie’s first class with his analytical assessment of the SMO and what the Liberation of Donbass meant to the people. Thank you Fergie for your truthfulness and thank you Breakthrough News and Rania for highlighting everything wrong with Kiev’s Regime under Zelensky. What a show!!!

[@LynnT6904]

It’s all bullshit and full of ruZZian propaganda! Try watching the war for yourself through satellite imagery and also educate yourself on ruZZian propaganda. You will see that ruZZia lies and it is ruzzia who has been shelling the Donbas region for 9+ years. 🤷‍♀️

[@barneydhokwani7328]

Make no mistakes guys Africa is Listening and is tired of America war narrative in the world we"re with Russia for the new world order

[@larserichermanson4644]

This was one of the most interesting conversations I have ever seen and heard. Thank you.

[@olgastubbs6594]

Thank you, guys! ❤

[@yuglesstube]

A really excellent interview. Both make superb contributions. Insightful.

[@mladensirar334]

Great interview. You like this guy verry much i can see 😊

[@liamporter1137]

Thanks for sharing and surfacing the truth. 👏👍

[@lesterquintrell4844]

More people need to hear this .. thank you.

[@thejbo777]

FERGIE IS THE MAN!

[@danl5592]

Keep telling the truth 👌

[@redross8518]

Neo Nazi battalions in Ukraine 1)Azov battalion 2) Tornado battalion 3) Trident battalion 4)Aidar battalion 5)Dniper battalion 6)Donbas battalion 7)C14 militia 8)Kharkov Police battalion 9)Shakhtar Police battalion 10)Centurial battalion 11) Kraken Unit Just to name a few

[@michaelharvey75]

Don't use the nickname - nazi. . Use National Socialists. .

[@ytgfy]

Also Misanthropic division

[@piked261]

Fascists trained and armed by the West.

[@sigmasix3719]

@@michaelharvey75 they are Nazis mate evil psychopath mass murderers

[@alenaself9520]

Fergie, when you speak of the events on Odessa, please include in your statement that ukros lit the building on fire while there were many people inside and blocked the doors. Many people were burnt alive by n democratic ukros

[@carletonchristensen9971]

Excellent discussion, Comrades!

[@aoeu256]

Dude russia isn't communist anymore; aren't they anti-gays?

[@lawistruth]

Great interview Rania is. One of those with long but very tolerable questioning! Great guest Fergie is too!

[@marjendemhare5892]

You should do an interview with Patrick Lancaster and Fergie .

[@minime1721]

Terrific interview of a very bright young man who is a world traveler. Glad you were able to bring him on and here an unbaised truthful perspective of the truth in this region..most all of my personal friends are so stupidly brainwashed in Westen MSM and have zero clue on the truth and refuse to even listen to these interviews from actual real journalists who stay true to the core values of true journalism. My God protect you on your travels and keep you safe. God Bless you young man. Im American and my sister lived 25 yrs in Russia. She obtained her masters degree @ the University of Moscow in Languistics and became an interpreter. Traveled all over the Soviet union before it was dismantled and left in 2010 for family reasons back home. She absolutely loved the Russian people, was fine w/ their government and accepted their way of life even though sometimes harsh @ times. She is absolutely disgusted as am in what our US Government is doing.

[@claudermiller]

One point about immigrant labor in Poland etc. Right now the fed is trying to reduce inflation by increasing unemployment. The same goes for European countries. An influx of desperate people means employers have leverage against their native workers. If I'm a polish laborer I could easily be replaced by a Ukrainian willing to accept 75% of what I'm getting. Another opportunity for the rentier class to push down working people.

[@kp6215]

Exactly read Professor Michael Hudson.

[@donaldking1027]

Love this program

[@headsails]

Great interview. This fills in a lot of gaps and details.

[@johnperniciaro785]

I appreciate your work (both). I want to emphasize that this war is a war on "Soviet-ness". (as well as war on history). Donbass, and adjacent Rostov Oblast (Russia) were in a way more emblematic of the USSR than Moscow itself.. definitely a part of the backbone of the Soviet Union. People came here to work from all over the Soviet Union ---this is why the people there are hated by the "right"---they & their way of being with each other is to be destroyed and this history erased....

[@DinoCism]

It's also why they'll win

[@MarStoryTime]

Yeah, there was an article in the bourgeois press (NYT, I think) that called Donbas the last holdout of the USSR.

[@bennym5244]

Yet we have a so called left wing government in America. The left is defending the right. Proves there's just a permanent government in Washington.

[@pertpesc7058]

It's funny how Ukraina actually is created by USSR. Most of it's territory is territorys occupied by the USSR. Land taken from Polen Hungary Slovenia Romania. Whit people who see them self the same today and not Ukrainien. And at least 50% of todays Ukraina , have been Russia for from 250 to 500 years.

[@ovidiudraghici9941]

Absolutely right!

[@fefyespinosa4688]

Thank you all for the información.

[@theedoctar]

This guy is a gem!

[@juditharnett3356]

FANTASTIC program. Thank you.

[@khunmikeon858]

Wonderful that Fergie has had the strength of character to go in a different direction than his oligarch Cox family members. 👏👏👏. Respect from Ireland. 🇮🇪💚☘️

[@denazify]

Thanks for this excellent video giving the context of the war which is never discussed in US mainstream news

[@christinehomer2185]

It used to be.BBC even made a documentary about it that I watched that disappeared when they wanted their proxy war with Russia.

[@1k20a]

It is very much discussed and these very same talking points that the Russians continue to say have been proven wrong. It is almost like the Russians don't care about being wrong if they can just hold on to a few dummies

[@michstockholm1164]

Why don't I get more recommendations about your programs? I bet its algorithmically suppressed. 😢

[@zvonkobarisic1470]

Someone said that the truth is like a diamond ,if we want to see it we have to look at both sides! Thanks for interview!👍

[@jeandurand3092]

Churchill said "the truth is so precious it must be protected by an army of lies"

[@tigading2177]

that is the brilliance of western powers, they are so good at playing with words, they could literally turn satanic actions into virtues simply by incorporating words like freedom and democracy. LOL@@jeandurand3092

[@Xy13]

Professionally done,reporting and finally viewing situation from eastern side of the country.

[@hanssauseng6354]

Very interesting guest on your show. Brilliant insight in the workings of US domestic and international tyranny on both the legal and military front.

[@douglasmacdonald2617]

The death toll in the Union building was 49 including a pregnant woman, many who jumpt from the upper floors were beaten to death.

[@christinehomer2185]

There were children in there looking out the windows it was heart breaking.

[@naturebc]

That's a great picture. Everything that musicians, athletes put together, politicians destroy in an instant.

[@olivieryeung398]

There's a reportage made by Anne Laure Bonnel, very good one Actually , donbass 2017. It shows. Everything that's bbeen happening since 2016 although media didn't cover... the whole US nice work there

[@relaxinolrelax6090]

What great interview we need more truth like this for Western World

[@1k20a]

Yea the truth that has been disproven multiple times. The same lies said over and over by new people.

[@garrycompton7214]

Great interview - Privat from Crimea.

[@elenitsigante3256]

Very good description of the NGO complex in eastern Europe!

[@ErwinHofmann]

... very good talk but please, please, please stop call Russia's intervention in Ukraine's civil war an invasion because it was not, Russia was invited by (initially) Ukrainan citizens in the east of Ukraine to defend against a planned attack of the region by the Ukraine's (NATO trained, financed and weaponized) regular army ... also, Russia's military didn't not actively interven and support the Donbass people and its militias, who sought more independence (not separation) in Ukraine (as confirmed by The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and documented by Jacques Baud, who was on the ground in Ukraine in 2014 working for NATO) also the Donbass people are mainly ethnic Russians and not just Russian speaker, besides, until the illegal coup d'etat in Ukraine, most Ukrainian's (84%) spoke Russian as their day-to-day language ...

[@ovidiudraghici9941]

Right on!

[@1k20a]

Yea Russians game plan is to flood the area with Russians then these Russian claim to want Russian help. If Russia had the same amount of proof the Ukrainians have against the Russians maybe these lies would be believed. The Russians have been exposed and they are now paying for it

[@RB3565]

Thank you for this piece❤

[@ronaldgreene5733]

Long ago Putin offered for Russia to join NATO in cooperation rather than to restart another cold war in the future. He was denied without cause, while every effort has been on the part of the west to do exactly that and treat Russia as our enemy and promote that sentiment.

[@ismailmukooza2005]

Great🎉show This my first time watching. But I only hear truthfully 🎉🎉🎉

[@anandsamuel1978]

Spot on!

[@NuisanceMan]

Fergie Chambers is great.

[@EHed-kv2wb]

How when he lied about 15,000 "civilians" dead during the 8 years when the UN report is only above 3,000.

[@edwardpi9852]

The covid pandemic started in USA with closing of Fort Detrick bioweapons lab. Next two pandemics with US patents and has to do with food birds and rats.

[@kp6215]

Worse shall be revealed because the Capitalists since '66 complaining about over population thus need a way to cull the herd that a murder trial has debatable doubts with plausible deniability when these evil people decided amongst the few in the room to use humans for profit commodity .

[@DavidImpatief]

Good morning Ed. Regards England

[@mirosawsiemieniuk9582]

Very informative. Thank you!

[@kingsqueensrecordsbarbados9746]

Great interview. I respect his stance on the Atlanta issue as very independent, and not supporting shit because his family is involved.💪🏾

[@philipreed387]

Fergie, have you ever meet with Graham Phillips or Patrick Lancaster?

[@ekaterinahag516]

Wau, what a knowledge of the region and situation in Donbass, thank you for sharing!

[@terryoneilp1421]

Well done young fella for getting the truth out.

[@user-of7td9oo7d]

Thank you for the words of truth and reason. ❤

[@fallenswan1670]

This kind of "class traitors" are great help for humanity!!

[@rdsc.455]

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[@davidcanatella4279]

Amazing load of information

[@norasalehbusiness9478]

Ranis we are proud keep the good work .

[@msjoanofthearc]

Thank you a brilliant presentation!

[@manmohanmehta5697]

Fantastic such a great detailed explanation of types of social differences all over Eastern Europe and Ukraine. A very knowledgeable Guest .All in all such a stimulating conversation. Rania what penetrating questions. Many thanks.Any book that may be suggested.

[@Tommy6860]

This may be the best and most comprehensive talks on dispatches I have watched covering the US proxy war, ancillary movements in eastern europe (Moldova) and that fascist police push in Atlanta.

[@dannydenison6253]

A new perspective thanks for sharing

[@immortalideas-fi6kj]

I love you, Rania. ❤❤❤

[@concernedcitizen1984]

Grateful for journalists who inhabit and visit your channel ❤

[@olgatarasova-chelpanova1109]

I so much enjoyed this conversation! Thank you, Rania. Double thanks, Fergie! Greetings from Moscow!

[@naturebc]

Great show and great guest!

[@johnperniciaro785]

Fergie ---better to emphasize the Soviet aspect of the culture there--- I have spent considerable time with people from the region spanning from Dniepro to Rostov oblast and never get a sense that their "ethnicity" is/was central to who they are. This bit about Ukrainian & Russian ethnicities is way over-blown, practically a product of Western re-education programming/ propaganda---Camaraderie was far & away stronger than any antipathy....

[@spartan5921]

The US stated that from the fall of the USSR, they were involved in the Ukraine and looking at ways to gain a foothold within the country due to the Anti Russian attitude of the USA. Much like Taiwan, until the US interference in 2014, there was more than likely a common normal relationship between the people as the country seemed to function without US interference. Bring in the Coup in 2014, where it is well known that the USA did force a change of government, a diplomatic elected government, which by any normal standards would have supporters and non supporters. Be that as it may, people live on until the next election and vote again. Imagine if Ukraine went to the USA and was going around like Victoria Nuland citing the KKK, or BLM to assist with the regime change in the USA. You would not last five minutes and yet, she, Biden and the ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt worked hard to eject Yanokovic, with her famous telephone call stating who to put in place and how the EU can go F themselves. Now the original Army that was built up over that period from 2014 till 2021, has been wiped out. A second Army made up of the reserves and territorial army with the experienced officers became the replacement. They showed great ability and steadfast determination to defend their country, but there was certain battalions such as AZOV and other similar branded types who the majority of the world will not tolerate. Yet the USA, NATO and Western nations who fought against this regime in WWII are now willingly supporting this disgusting type of group. Ukraine is now at the point of building a third Army, however the truth does come out and video footage of 15/16 year old boys and girls are being forced to join the military. After a week of bare training they are sent to the worst place on earth to fight in a situation of little chance of survival. There is troops revolting and refusing to fight, complaining of lack of food, clothes and ammunition, just as the basics. Being asked to go to a place where they have lost three hundred people and there is only fifteen of them left, exhausted and tired. They refuse and argue, just sitting down and not moving. This is not war, these are war crimes and murder, but who is responsible? USA for pushing the Ukrainian Govt for results? Ukraine Govt for being zealots? NATO for being a demanding ally? It is at a point now where Neither NATO or the USA can accept the loss. The USA is 5 for 5 since WWII in losses, NATO is guilty of war crimes in Serbia in 1999, but not even the UN will hold either one responsible for the crimes they are committing. I do not support the Western Ukraine government in any way or form, but I do not sanction the needless loss of life nor the ruination of a country for the benefits of another or the leader of the country. Peace is preferred, and I see that what the USA and Zelensky want are nothing but a pipe dream. Face the facts and understand that the people of these regions have voted freely for their allegiance to the RF. The UN should have no trouble in acknowledging this and this is the end of the story. If Taiwan people should vote to unify with mainland, peacefully before the years end. Will the UN acknowledge this, and will the USA deny them this right?

[@marcomongke3116]

As a Mongolian, i feel so segregated to hear people openly and casually talking about having our blood as something to be despised of. Modern nazis seem just as despicable and doomed to fail like in the past.

[@nickfontano9890]

Western people have a mostly admirable view of the Mongolians based on tons of deep historical programs and dram series based on Genghis and Kubla. Ancient Mongols are cool in America, at least. Very bad ass

[@ivydark9741]

​@@nickfontano9890till they mixed with Russians. )

[@nickfontano9890]

@@ivydark9741 Americans don't hate Russians they're just getting too rowdy needa knock it off settle down now for a minute. Russia needs Mongolia.and it's neighbors cuz they aren't having enough kids to sustain the economy in 8 years

[@georgekos8492]

I didn't know about Serbian settlements in Ukraine ! Historically, Bakhmut was the capital of Slavo-Serbia (1753-1764), which was established by settlers of Serb and other ethnicities. In 1920-1924, the city was an administrative center of the newly created Donets Governorate of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.