Nikolay Mitrokhin

mitrokhin@uni-bremen.de
Articles by Nikolay Mitrokhin

“For Eight Years They Sat There in Cellars Under Fire!” — On One False Narrative About Ukraine

Some of my Russian Facebook friends are seriously discussing the Putin narrative that claims that, over the past eight years, the Ukrainian military has subjected civilian populations in the so-called Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics to constant shelling. Some of those discussing Putin’s line that “For eight years they sat there in cellars under fire!” were not yet old enough to follow politics as of 2014. Others seem to have forgotten a few key facts.

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