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‘We’re full of hope for Russia. Let them not leave us; let them take us to them soon so that we can all be with them.’ Lyubov Cherkas, a resident of Krasnaya Polyana, described how her family currently lives. Her village is located on the border with the Zaporozhsky region of Ukraine, close to the front line.
For a long time, locals were without electricity. The stores in the village are empty, and there is nowhere to get food. The residents say the Ukrainian military looted. Russian Armed Forces have now taken control of the village. Charities delivered humanitarian aid from Russia to Krasnaya Polyana for the first time in a long time. Nobody had done it before.
The stories of Krasnaya Polyana residents will be included in our new film. It’s about volunteers and those who deliver humanitarian aid. The premiere is coming soon.
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After starting the special operation in Ukraine, new sanctions against Russia were seen every day. Russia is the most sanctioned country globally, with some 6,000 in place. Although designed to harm Russian individuals, companies and organisations, these sanctions have had adverse effects on Europe and America just as much. Why did it happen?
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Donbass. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow takes a look back at events that unfolded before the start of the crisis in 2014. Historians and journalists share their views on the conflict, players and motives, while ordinary citizens from the Donetsk and Lugansk regions describe the horrors of war.
There are mass graves scattered across Donbass, from which bodies of civilians are regularly exhumed. Yet, while the shelling and killings continued, Western media remained silent. According to UN estimates, over 13,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
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Young girls come to Europe from Nigeria to find a good job and a better life. People who present themselves as travel agents tell them relocation can help their families. These girls can work as babysitters, become housemaids or hairdressers. They say, “Don’t worry about the money. Once you are there, you’ll earn enough to pay back”.
Instead of jobs and cushy lives, the girls are exploited and raped. But the girls can’t go anywhere, let alone return home. Aside from being ashamed of showing up empty-handed, they are scared to die.
The thing is, they have taken a voodoo oath. This gruesome ritual includes smearing animal blood on the body and eating raw chicken liver. The girls are convinced breaking the oath would kill them.
Tune in for the premiere of Voodoo, Money, and Sex Slaves on RT Documentary!
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Do you know the American Russell Bentley @TXDPR came to Donbass in 2014 to protect the locals? Now he’s taking people out of Mariupol and other dangerous places. Watch it in our video.
Russell loves his country, but hates the U.S. government and considers it as the ‘Fourth Reich’. We told Russell's story in the documentary, Donbass. Yesterday, today, tomorrow.
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‘They tied me with tape to a post and said: ‘If you break free, we’ll shoot you.’’ This is how 78-year-old Viktor, a local historian in Donbass, was treated for participating in rallies in 2014 supporting Russia. He said he was saved from being tortured and wasn’t transferred to Azov* by chance: ‘A police patrol was passing, and they let me go.’
Victor’s phone was taken away, so he was out of touch with his relatives living in Russia. We gave his video message to his family: ‘To my relatives, my daughter Marina - I’m alive.’
The apartment, where he lived for more than half a century, is completely burned down: ‘It is terrible to get used to the fact that being 78 years old I do not have my own place’.
‘Almost everyone around me is waiting for the DNR troops to come as liberators. Everyone considers Russia their native land and the DNR as part of it.’ But, he says, ‘it is necessary to endure’, and peace will come.
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‘The most common is probably plastic bags over the head. So that a person cannot breathe.’ A former officer of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasily Prozorov, told RT Documentary about torture at a secret Ukrainian prison. ‘The Library’ was in a restaurant at Mariupol airport: ‘They are just two refrigerators. Thick iron doors that were closed. And rooms padded with iron’. According to Prozorov, the torture chamber appeared in June 2014, when the Azov* battalion was mopping up DNR supporters in Mariupol.
An interview with Vasily Prozorov, where he talks about the ‘Library’ in detail, will be included in a new RT Documentary film. Will you be watching it?
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"It sucks. We’re suffering the price for something that’s happening in another country."
Sanctions were imposed on Russia, but Europe and America felt the adverse effects just as much. Why did it happen?
Russia is the most sanctioned country in the world. Russia is currently under 6,000 sanctions, well ahead of Iran’s 3,600. Switzerland leads with a total of 824 sanctions imposed on Russia. Though most of them are personal, hundreds of companies were sanctioned, too. It takes a toll on the vulnerable categories of the population. But it also threatens the world economy.
Our video contains excerpts from our documentary, which presents a thorough analysis of the current political and economic situation, as leading economists, political scientists and scholars express their views and account for what is happening. They will dwell on the boomerang effect sanctions have and where this policy the West is pursuing will lead.
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The pro-choice community in the United States has been outraged by the recent decision of Texas Governor Greg Abbott to sign one of the strictest abortion laws in the US, the Heartbeat Act, which prohibits abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy. Protests swept across America, and even celebrities like Billie Eilish and Uma Thurman joined in.
However, not everyone was on the same page. For example, Claire survived a late-term abortion, and her twin brother didn’t. For that reason, she has been an advocate of the pro-life position all her life. She is not alone. Many women hold the same opinion and have reasons for that, which are hard to ignore.
Doctors warn that a total abortion ban may increase illegal procedures, as was the case before they were legalised in 1973. Who is right, and what turn will this discussion take?
Tune in for the Abortion: America’s Divide on RT Documentary.
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‘They don’t let anyone out because they say: ‘We are the last to leave, and you are our protection, you are our shields.’ So they hide in our yards, sit in the yard and shoot.’ This is how the residents of Mariupol describe what the Azov* battalion fighters were doing.
Our camera crew talked to those still in the city. Svetlana came up and asked to record an appeal to the president of Ukraine. She was in the deepest despair: ‘Greetings to Zelensky, personally... What have you done? What have you done, you bastard? How many people, how many orphans, how many... It’s horrible.’.
Another woman led our film crew to the grave of her 27-year-old daughter, who was killed in the shelling. ‘I buried her in front of the window’. Now she is caring for her wounded sister, diagnosed with diabetes. Medicine is scarce, and the days are running out. There are many elderly people left in the city, many of them wounded.
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‘It’s all over, Valechka, you’re already here. It's all over now.’ American Russell Bentley fighting in Donbass and an RT Documentary team helped reunite a family.
Stanislav and Valentina, both 70, and their 50-year-old daughter Irina were taken from Mariupol. Stanislav’s sister Larisa asked for help to have her relatives brought to Donetsk. It eventually took a few days, and they even got to bring their cat Terra with them.
On the way, everyone was crying, even Russell, who came from the United States eight years ago to defend the Donbass. You can find his story in the movie Donbass. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.
‘We were brought up. I thought you would leave us,’ said Valentina. The family still doesn't believe that they managed to meet.
This story will be in a new RT Documentary film. Don't miss the premiere!
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‘People are being kicked out into the square, Ukrainian soldiers are occupying flats, and they are shooting from the windows...’ This is what Mariupol residents whose apartment buildings have been half destroyed by shells told us. Entire families fled the city center and settled in a building on the outskirts, hoping it would be safer there.
There is no heating in the building, people sleep in warm clothes because it gets very cold at night, and they cook outside. The explosions and rumbling never stop. Natalya, the mother of ten-year-old Sveta, says the girl ‘even flinches in her sleep, she’s really afraid.’ But most of the adults don't notice the explosions and say they’re already used to it.
Mariupol residents say some people have been intimidated by Ukrainian volunteers: ‘They said that people are sent to Siberia, to the Urals, that passports and phones are taken away, and you’ll be left with only document saying you’re a displaced person.’
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