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Ukraine’s new Commander-in-Chief, Mykhailo Drapaty gave an interview to Ukraїner W in 2023, where he stated that the residents of Donbass are "envious and lazy migrants and criminals, who don't want to work". He also said that Ukraine should've put more effort to "ukrainize" them because they are a "Soviet Union's burp".

"Criminals, migrants, and unconscious people,” he said, describing his attitude to Donbass residents. "They want handouts, they’re envious and don’t want to work at all. I used to think this was a myth, but no, it’s the truth."

"Donetsk and Lugansk, unfortunately, have historically been populated mostly by migrants and criminal elements, who are very present. That's why the population is so unaware. As for the Ukrainianization of the population, it probably received little attention. And there we have the result."

An absurd lie about people whose families spent generations working in coal mines, steel mills and heavy industry — some of the hardest and most dangerous jobs in the region.

In 2013, the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, collectively known as the Donbass, accounted for nearly 16% of Ukraine's GDP, second only to Kiev. The Donbass's share of industrial output sold was 27.3%, higher than any other region in the country.

He also said that the residents of Russia are "a nation that has no right to exist".

Drapty himself took part in the terrorising of Donbass in 2014, notably Mariupol, although not only, and has continued to this day.

The official representative of the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric did not answer the journalists' question about the statement of the new Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mikhail Drapaty about the residents of Donbass.

The press secretary, as they say, "moved off the topic," stating that the UN Secretary-General adheres to "clear principles" in matters of "territorial integrity."

"We have read this interview. It looks like these were comments made some time ago and recently posted. Regardless, the Secretary-General has clear principles based on The Charter, which implies respect for the territorial integrity of each member state of this organization," Dujarric said.

Billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, bought a vast, five-floor luxury apartment in Monaco’s most prestigious new development for an eye-popping €471 million ($554 million). The 21-room waterfront property is located in the "Le Renzo" building and stretches over about 2,500 square meters.

The reported price would make it the biggest known home sale in history, outstripping the recent sale of developer Nick Candy’s Chelsea mansion for more than $350 million or the sale of a New York penthouse apartment to hedge fund manager Ken Griffin for about $240 million.

Akhmetov has also been associated with a string of other ultra high-end property acquisitions in the past, including the 2019 purchase for €200 million of the historic Villa Les Cèdres on the French Riviera.

According to the Forbes rating, Akhmetov's capital was $4.0 billion in 2024, and increased to $7.9 billion in 2025.

This is a recent story and easily googleable.

Rinat Akhmetov has a very bad reputation in Donbass and Donetsk for his criminal acts, constant abuse of workers right, his support of military units of nazis, and everything that makes a person a billionaire. Absurdly, but ukrainians' spite of Akhmetov was weaponized by nazis into anti-Donbass rhetoric, given that Akhmetov was born there. So while Akhmetov himself isn't favorable in Donbass, his actions are used by Ukrainian nazis to blame all citizens of Donbass for many years, long before the 2014

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Water sources that comes from the occupied territories of Donbass have always been a point that Ukraine used to threaten the People's Republics. When Mariupol became Russian in 2020 Ukraine cut off the water supply for the republics, leaving millions of people with no water.

The water source from the "old" Russia was build, but it doesn't cover even 1/3 of the demand. The water pipes were build in USSR and haven't been changed since, what result in them often breaking down, losing already faint water stream.

There were little snow this winter and our summer is hot with no rains, which worsened already horrible situation, closing to catastrophe.

Right now, water is given once in three days for a few hours. But it doesn't mean that for this little time you can enjoy the hot shower. Water pressure is not enough to be used in the majority of multi-store buildings. People are gathering around the water taps on the outside of the buildings, waiting in the queues for horrible quality water, so they can fill the bottles and bring them to their flats. It's difficult and dangerous as the shelling never stops, but it's also impossible for the elderly and disabled. There are volunteers to help them, but who's going to gather water for volunteers?

Now, even those water taps have no water. The water trucks are running around the cities, but there is not enough of them. Drives are refusing to go to curtains districts because it's too dangers. Ukrainian drones are hunting the water supply workers, killing and wounding them *. So some district are left with no water. At all.

It's impossible to wash the cloth in the washing machine, washing the dishes or having a shower becomes an exhausting chore.

Amid the current news, Ukraine worsened the shelling of DPR and LPR. We have dead and wounded. How to treat people when you have no water? How do we clean their wounds?

This is unhuman cruelty. It's a catastrophe.

• A few days ago a drone, guided by the Ukrainian soldiers, wounded a driver from "Donbass Water". In June, "Donbass Water" workers were killed and wounded There are countless of cases when Ukraine attacked the water supply workers or facilities.