It’s the description of the religious persecution in this piece that seems particularly “over the top”. I’m well aware of the fighting in the eastern Ukraine.
The oppression of protestant sects in the Lugansk “People’s Republic” is a fact. I have family in Alchevsk that confirm it. Now that Russian passports are being issued in the new “Republics” we will soon see that it was all a purely Russian land grab.
Unfortunately our media is too focused on Trump collusion garbage and giving Putin the airtime he so craves, that it doesn't cover things like this.