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#video#Ukraine ‘Thanks to your entire team, my mum is now with me in the warm’. These are the words of Viktoria Forkavets. Our film crew helped her find her mother, Natalya Angeleva. Natalya is a mother-heroine, she has five children, and Viktoria is the second. Viktoria couldn’t contact her mother for almost a month. She only knew mum was in Volnovakha, with no water, food, light or gas. She didn’t even know if she was alive. Finally, Viktoria turned to RT Documentary for help. We managed to arrange their meeting. There were many tears and hugs. Natalya, like other residents, hid in the basement. She said the Ukrainian authorities reported no humanitarian corridors. The girl took her mother home to Khartsyzsk. And she can hug her grandchildren again. The story of Viktoria and her mother, Natalia, is included in the film Donbass: Under Fire. It has stories of relatives who found each other and those who reunite families, risking their lives. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Ukraine ‘Zelensky is a puppet and a very stupid one, I would add. And it’s obvious he’s taking the Ukrainian people down the road of suicide’. Former US Army Officer and Counterterrorism Analyst Scott Bennett says the Ukrainian government is being led by the United States, and President Zelensky was chosen as less competent and easily manageable. He also says provocation from NATO countries is a ‘bluff because one thing this conflict has revealed is that NATO and the Western countries are incapable of fighting a land war against the professional Russian army’. According to the expert, the only war they can make is informational as they’re afraid of direct conflict with Russia. The methods and why the United States and NATO are waging an information war against Russia are described in our film Russians Cancelled. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#photo#Japan The virtual wife of the Japanese man stopped talking to him. The real drama came as her love ended with software support. Despite the setback, Akihiko will not leave his wife and look for a real girl. Instead, he carries a life-size copy of her with him: ‘My love for Miku has not changed. I arranged the wedding ceremony because I thought I could be with her forever’. Akihiko fell in love with Mika in 2008, and almost ten years later, a device for communicating with virtual characters appeared on the market. Akihiko bought it for $2,700 and got married. But relatives didn’t understand. His mother wishes Akihiko would marry a real girl. See the story of Akihiko Kondo and his virtual wife in the film I Married a Hologram. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

The Russia Beyond project published footage of Kimzha, one of the north’s most beautiful and ancient places. Learn the story of the place that retained its primordial state for hundreds of years. https://t.me/russiabeyond/880

#video#Vietnam The Vietnam War ended 47 years ago, and the consequences are still being felt by the people of the country. Children are born with genetic diseases. And all because of the poison Agent Orange, which the Americans sprayed on the forests where the partisans were. The Agent Orange Victims Association president, retired General Nguyen Van Rin, says: ‘The Americans knew from the very beginning of the consequences, although they constantly lied that the ‘agent’ is not dangerous to people, but only destroys the jungle’. Watch the stories of those who suffered from U.S. chemical weapons in our video and film Vietnam: My Orange Pain. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Donbass ‘Take shelter! Go on, quickly, go, go, go….’ Alexey Smirnov from the Angel humanitarian battalion asks Mariupol residents to run to a shelter quickly. Seconds earlier, a shell explodes near the residential block where humanitarian aid is handed out. All members of the humanitarian battalion know how to behave in a combat zone. Before departure, Alexey gives instructions. He reminds Azov* members may be among civilians coming to get food. This is why the humanitarian battalion is armed. See the fragment of our documentary Donbass: I’m Aliveto learn more. *recognised in Russia as extremist and banned Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Albania We are sharing the moving story of one of Albania’s heroines. Lali was a beautiful girl who changed genders to become her family’s male protector, according to ancient Albanian tradition. She took a vow to be a burrnesha or sworn virgin. Check out our video to meet this extraordinary person. Find out more about the ancient tradition in the film The Virgins. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

We recommend you to follow Vasily Prozorov channel He is a former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine. He has created his own Investigation Center, where he exposes the crimes and lies of the Ukrainian authorities who seized power after the Maidan events. On his channel you will find many exclusive materials made in Donbas. Footage of militant bases, interrogations of prisoners of war, secret documents, as well as international investigations - all this is already in the UKRLEAKS channel. Here is the link - https://t.me/ukr_leaks_eng

#premiere#Ukraine ‘First and foremost, they appealed to schoolchildren, who are still open-minded and susceptible to all kinds of things. For them, they drew parallels between SS death squads and Soviet liberators and defenders’. Military historian Nikita Buranov talks about what children are taught in Ukraine. They are given shell casings that killed their compatriots in the Donbass as souvenirs. In Ukraine, children are taught history differently. Schoolchildren are introduced to the biography of the national hero Bandera. He is one of the founders of the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army). During the Great Patriotic War, about 100,000 civilians and 15,000 Soviet soldiers were its victims. In our post - a video from Ukrainian children’s camps. Teenagers there learn the ‘real’ truth. This is a clip from the film Fast Forward to Fascism. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Ukraine “I hear before from Azov*, like prisoners, who I speak with, they tell me if they wanted to surrender or desert, like, Azov would shoot them.” A British mercenary from the Ukrainian military tells about Azov militants’ treatment of prisoners. Aiden Eslin came to Ukraine four years ago and served in the Ukrainian army. When the Russian special military operation in Ukraine began, Aiden was in Mariupol. Surrounded by Russian troops, he surrendered. In an exclusive interview with RT Documentary, he admits he decided to fight on the Ukrainian side because he was confused. *recognised in Russia as extremist and banned Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Donbass ‘I regret nothing’ (Non, je ne regrette rien). This line is from an Edith Piaf song which has become the manifesto of French volunteer François Mauld d’Aymée. He came to Donbass from Champagne in 2015. At home, he studied at the military academy. He says the LPR and DPR people are defending their land, so he took their side and joined the international Pyatnashka brigade. The Frenchman served in Pyatnashka for six months and then stayed in Donetsk, teaching French and singing with the Donetsk Philharmonic. After that, he recorded a video for the song ‘Non, je ne regrette rien’ in October 2021. In February 2022, François returned to action. Mobilization began in the Donbass, and many of his colleagues from the Philharmonic were called up. Now he is in positions near the Azovstal plant. François Mauld d’Aymée is one of the characters in our future film about volunteers from different countries who came to protect the people of Donbass. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#India A love wedding in India can be deadly. Parents forbid taking a member of another caste as a wife. Here it is considered a disgrace. And if you disobey, they can kill you. In our post - the story of a girl whose lover lost his life for forbidden love. She herself was injured. The attackers were not even stopped by the fact that at that moment the girl was eight months pregnant. In 1955, the Indian Parliament had already passed a law prohibiting discrimination based on caste. However, the locals still adhere to the ‘law of honor’. Those who violated it are forced to hide from the closest people. Watch the film Love Commandos. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary