VIDEO
We thought we’d live better without Ukraine! Interview with a Luhansk separatist
Lviv.Media
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Mar 9, 2023 12:15 p.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVQLI05JNtA
Oleksandr Taranenko, from the town of Rovenky in Luhansk Oblast, was in prison, served in the separatist army and worked at an illegal mine. Last March, he was taken to war right off the street when he went to the store. He spent almost 9 months in the war against Ukraine until he was captured. In an interview with Liubomyr Ferens, Oleksandr tries to answer difficult questions: where is the border of separatism, who is to blame for the war, and what to do if he is sent back to war.
00:00 Start
01:31 About work at the illegal mine
03:10 Nine months at war
05:26 What did he fight for?
06:51 About service in the separatist army
09:08 Where does Donbas end?
12:36 “No one asks peaceful people”
15:13 Why did Russia attack Ukraine?
17:02 About “They bombed Donbas for 8 years”
20:48 Who is to blame for the war?
25:30 Why does Russia need Donbas?
26:34 About the sentence for collaborationism and the exchange of prisoners
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So as it turns out the guy being interviewed was not paying attention to what was going on around him. He was trained as a carpenter and worked in a n illegal coal mine for a while, but things changed, and he ended up stealing and going to prison for 5 years.
When he got out he was rounded up by people and taken to the military where he enlisted because it was a job. By that time, he could not get a job anywhere because he had no legal documents.
Long story short - he fought to protect his family in Donbas, but by that time, there were only a few civilians killed, and that was less than the year before. He did not know that. In two years or less, the Ukraine-Donbas conflict would have ended. But he was willing to keep attacking Ukraine to defend his family and Donbas until he was ordered to stop, even if that were at the Polish/Hungarian borders.
He was asked if there were many people like himself - to which he replied, “Yes”. He admitted that people like him were the ones who screwed it up. And sided with the Russians against Ukraine, even though he had only the most rudimentary idea of the actual situation.
Just goes to shows that Democrat voters are everywhere.