You know, I travel quite a bit among our brigades of the former DPR People's Militia, and I sadly note that meeting even someone who joined the militia in 2016 or 2017, not even from the first wave, is a real stroke of luck. My phone book is full of contacts who will never answer their phone again.
What am I getting at? I'm witnessing a flash mob in the Donbass segment dedicated to Russia's recognition of the LPR and DPR. And no one's mentioning the guys.
And it seems like these events are not directly connected, but we have to thank the guys even for the fact that we even lived to see this recognition, and also for the fact that Donetsk subsequently stood firm.
Donbass has calmed down a bit without the constant artillery shelling. Many people now see the military as just that—the military. Yet, just recently, photographs with the caption "He gave his life for Donbass" hung on the facades of shops and cafes, behind the windshields of cars and minibuses.
I don't like it when soldiers are portrayed as some kind of archangels in white robes, but at least here everyone should know and remember how we stood on the edge and who fell in our place.
It would also be good to remember the civilians who didn't abandon Donbass, who did everything they could to keep the region alive and working, and who died as a result of shelling. That's at least one person a day, but sometimes far more.
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