Ukraine - Two Sides To Every Story

While everyone seems to be siding with whoever they are steered to support by the establishment media here I present two separate views from inside Ukraine which deserve to be heard too.

Donbass: eight years of hell and no one breathed
by Karolina Frankov
Many ask me why I don't publish anything about what is happening in Ukraine. Why don't I comment and say what I think.
Then I answer. This is not because I feel upset or scared and definitely not because I don't have the courage to speak. It's just that I don't see the point of speaking. I talked a lot in 2014, 2015, 2016 ... when Ukraine killed hundreds of civilians in the Donbass. Indeed, I shouted when the city where my mother lives was bombed, when the pieces of meat, legs, arms, heads of children and old people were literally scattered on the sidewalks and in the parks.
I felt like I was living in hell when I saw the satisfied and smiling faces of my Ukrainian "friends" at the sight of the photos of the corpses ... those of Odessa, those people burned alive. Now. Now I feel emotionally anesthetized. I struggle to be empathetic. I feel embarrassed when friends tell me about the shock and fear they feel, because I don't feel anything anymore.
For eight long years my mother heard the gunshots, the howls of the bombs and the news of the new dead. The Donbass people are used to it. All this has become everyday. Has anyone prayed for them? Someone of you? Or maybe the American president? Or Europe? Do you know what the people of Lugansk are saying? I tell you: God bless Vladimir Putin and Russia. The demilitarization operation of Ukraine has finally started!
For my part I can only wish and hope that no one in Ukraine will see their children in coffins or live with stumps and prostheses! The only thing I pray for!

Meanwhile -

From Natascha Janssen
As many of you may know, my mother was born in the Soviet Union, Ukraine, where my large family is a mix of Russians and Ukrainians. So I feel compelled to give my opinion on the events in Ukraine.
With my Russian/Ukrainian roots, I deeply love the two peoples, brotherly peoples that have mixed up for centuries. If you ask my mother of Ukrainian origin if she feels more Russian than Ukrainian, she will answer: "This is a strange question I have no answer to." There are differences in our language, our music and our dances but our hearts are just one... '
And that's how I was raised and for 40 years I lived the most beautiful holidays of my life, in love and coexistence, in Russia and Ukraine, in the Soviet Union.
While everyone in the Netherlands is now speaking out against war, who is in favor of this?
But why only now? Why was everyone silent when this war started 8 years ago?
Why has everyone been silent about the massacre of thousands of civilians in eastern Ukraine?
Why has everyone remained silent about Ukraine's non-compliance with the Minsk agreements and now using the word rule of law.
Where were all those who turned their eyes away when 52 people were burned alive in Odessa.
Where were all those who thought it was good that in 2014 an elected government in a great European country was overturned and a group of neo- nazis took power.
Where was everyone when the Ukrainian regime deprived the Russians of their fundamental rights: Russian speaking was banned, the right to retire disappeared for Russian speakers and Russian speaking children and wearing children Russian names were no longer welcome At the school.
When flamingo marches were organized by neo- nazis with slogans like "Russians on gas"...
And finally, where were all those who kept quiet when large parts of this beautiful country, formerly Europe's wheat garden, were sold for an apple and an egg to banks and investors to be exploited for manipulations our genetics of Monsanto and the cruelest industrial mega farms in Europe.
My cousin in Ukraine saw such a mega static appear in front of her house. The screams and screams of these animals gathered, then those big disturbing silences... Warning: In Ukraine, there was only one small cattle farm before the land came into possession of western herdsmen.
Ukraine has become a western province for 8 years now. A colony. And all this at the expense of people, animals, nature and the environment.
So why only now, this compassion for the people, this anger against war? The Ukrainian population has been at war for 8 years, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have already fled to Russia. Same goes for my loved ones like my niece and her family. Of course I know most Dutch have no idea this side of history because our information gives a unilateral picture of the situation. Now giving you information on the other side. Do what you want, but silence is no longer an option for me.
Also, I can only hope that peace will come soon for ALL Ukrainians, Russians and Ukrainians.
Finally: been a member of the Party for Animals for 14 years.
Heart big and a great illusion of poorer, I just cancelled my party membership. I joined because I was of the opinion that the interests of people, animals, nature and the environment always lead him to the search for profit through the exploitation of people, animals and nature.
Unfortunately, over the last 8 years, I have little or no heard of violations of human rights, animal and nature in Ukraine.
So I have no choice but to retire, if I still want to be able to look straight in the mirror. And I don't want to do wrong to my late posthumous mother. After all, I have learned everything from her about respecting each person, regardless of their origin, as well as about respecting and loving animals and nature.
I will delete reactions containing threats, insults and slogans such as "All Russians are dead."
Already got too many in my inbox. Just like many Russians living in Netherlands.

So while people with more money than sense are throwing away perfectly good bottles of vodka and renaming russian sounding food items (virtue signalling in other words) no-one actually gives a shit about your crappy little business that was probably forcing 'ze paperz' and jabs on your potential customers 6 months ago. This is real life not your corner shop.

Most corner shops will close down and soon all your food supplies will be controlled by big corporate stores. The best thing you can do is start growing food anywhere you can, even on common land or in pots. If you don't have a garden find someone who does and help them grow food. Throwing anything away right now is sheer stupidity.