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#video#Donbass ‘The first night, the children were waiting for the bombing. They were under constant stress that soon they would have to run somewhere to hide,’ Father Alexandr talks about the evacuated children from Donbass. Eventually, they were accepted in a church in a village in the Rostov region. The refugees were given shelter, and they are safe. This is footage from our film ‘Ukraine: Heading East’.Watch the full documentary here. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Ukraine ‘[The sexton's] wife jumped out with a white rag. She screamed that he was bleeding. They [the Ukrainian military] fired at her with machine guns’. A woman hiding with her family in the Intercession Church in Mariupol recalls how the Ukrainian military did not allow a church sexton to call for medical help and herded people back into the basement. When they arrived, Ukrainian troops were there. The woman showed the RT Documentary film crew how they live now: ‘We are afraid to leave the temple because the walls are about a metre thick. It's safe here’. These shots will be included in the new RT Documentary film about foreign volunteers who went to defend Donbass. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Bolivia Bolivia has unusual battles – women dressed in heavy, multi-layered skirts fight each other. They’re known as Cholitas, and they pride themselves on looking their best in the ring. Outside the ring, they’re regular women: wives, mothers, business owners and even schoolgirls. But fighting is another social empowerment of indigenous women. Watch our the video to learn why women take part in such fights. Watch more Bolivian Cholita fighting in the full film The Good, the Bad and the Loco. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#documentaries Hi, everyone! Last Friday, our subscribers got our first newsletter and told us how much they enjoyed our playlist. So if you want to join them, please get in touch with us at [email protected], and we’ll add your email address to our mailing list. We have many more documentaries in store that will make you think, laugh, or gasp. Our next newsletter will be about the plight of refugees who were forced to leave their homes and families. You will witness the dark sides of this phenomenon and see how hardships can bring out the best in people. Till next Friday! Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#premiere#Donbass 'Everything was destroyed only by our Ukrainians, only them… They destroyed everything.' Residents of Mariupol tell how the Ukrainian military kicked them out of their homes. They say they had to hide in basements while Ukrainian tanks fired on high-rise buildings. More than 400,000 people went underground as they could not leave the city. The Ukrainian military did not let them out. This is a clip of our new film Donbass: I’m Alive!Watch the premiere here. An RT Documentary team has just returned from Mariupol and documented what locals told them. Hear the stories of people who managed to survive Ukrainian shelling and those who brought them humanitarian aid, risking their lives. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Donbass ‘I’m from the Republic of Serbia, the city of Šabac. I came here in January 2015, when I knew a civil war against nationalists was starting here’. Serb Bojan Dzhaferovich, with the callsign Jaeger, had been fighting for Donbass for seven years. The Ukrainian situation reminds him of the collapse of his native Yugoslavia: ‘civilians started an uprising. They did not want to be with them [nationalists], as we did in 1999’. At an abandoned Ukrainian position, Bojan saw NATO weapons. The Serbian volunteer recalls how NATO troops invaded his country and turned it into ruins. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Indonesia The Citarum River is the primary Indonesian waterway. It’s being used as the source of drinking water and for rice field irrigation. But local textile factories dumping hazardous waste made it one of the world’s most polluted rivers. As a result, the Citarum suffers from piles of plastic garbage, and locals do their best to clean it up. Watch our video to learn how people live near one of the world’s most polluted rivers. The whole story of Citarum pollution is in the RT Documentary film Deadly Waters. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Ukraine ‘In all the hospitals… all the vehicles were taken away, and only the ammunition was taken out’. Aleksandr, an employee of a medical institution in Mariupol, said ambulances and food trucks were loaded with shells by the Ukrainian military, and ‘children’ or ‘people’ were written on the vehicles. In addition, they confiscated personal vehicles from the city’s residents. ‘We arrived, instructed the driver, get out of the car’, the man recalls. How the fighting began in the south-east of Ukraine can be seen in our film Donbass: Battle of Debaltsevo. The film tells about the events of the Donbass war that took place in Debaltsevo. This critical strategic point became the centre of fierce fighting between the militias and government troops. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Ukraine ‘Suddenly I heard they commenced bombarding the airport. Of course, I was so frightened! So much! I dropped the hose, I dropped it all! I run for my life. Didn’t think about anything’. In 2014, Abbess Mikhail (Shevchenko) and her assistant Yulia suddenly found themselves in the centre of the battles for Donetsk airport. The militias fought Ukrainian forces, which had seized control. The main characters talk about their lives under shelling. So why didn't they leave the monastery? What tests awaited them? See the post. These shots are from the film Portaitissa of Donetsk, directed by Natalya Batraeva, who submitted it to the aRTel.doc dokkino competition. The entire movie has been uploaded to our telegram channel. Watch the full film here. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Indonesia One tradition from Java allows young boys to be legally exploited by much older men. The boys are called Gemblaks. Their old masters are known as Waroks. Waroks are revered shaman-like figures who are believed to have magical powers. Their gift comes at a price - they can’t be involved with women since they can strip them of their abilities. But Waroks can ‘rent out’ young boys. Young servants help their Waroks around the house, assist in rituals, … and more. Since children are expected to show unquestioning obedience, they are often told to sleep with their masters. Pak Dirman used to serve a Warok, when he was little. Hear his story and learn more about this ancient tradition in the full documentary on @documentaryplanet Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Ukraine The Russian Ministry of Defense published footage of the combat work of the Iskander operational-tactical missile systems. As part of the special military operation, high-precision missiles were launched at the important military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Iskander crews got the intelligence data and operatively got the position to make the launch. After that, the position was changed and the missile system was disguised. Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

#video#Donbass ‘We haven’t had any bread in a month. No water’, says a resident of Mariupol during the distribution of humanitarian aid. A huge queue lined up for the vehicle that brought the products. People talk about spending days in the basements, where the Azov* Battalion drove them. They could not get out. There were snipers in the houses shooting at civilians. Now Mariupol residents cannot contain their emotions: ‘It was a murder, a murder, a straight-out murder of people. Genocide!’. The stories of these people will be included in the new RT Documentary film Donbass: I'm Alive! In the meantime, watch ‘Donbass War: Airport. Part 2’. In it, residents of Donbass shared their memories and told how they had to hide from shelling and about the struggle for the Donetsk airport. *Recognized as extremist and banned in Russia Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary