Ukrainian Voices

With a Foreword by Olexy Haran

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• Publisher: ibidem
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9783838276809
• Edition: 0

In Eastern Ukraine, unfathomable human dramas have unfolded since 2014. Thousands died in the fighting. The homes of tens of thousands were destroyed. Many were captured and tortured, millions ousted from their homes. The lives of many were broken. Volunteers started to collect food, clothes and even weapons for the frontline. Charity organizations transferred donations to the Donets' Basin (Donbas). Priests became chaplains for soldiers. Journalists and photographers flooded into the war-zone and sometimes became involved in the events.A Hungarian and Ukrainian journalist, Eperjesi and Kachura had the opportunity to meet and talk to many of these characters. The book provides a tableau of the emblematic figures of the war in the Donbas. It not only presents tragedies, but also human moments and noble deeds. The two journalists show how the lives of ordinary people have changed as a result of the horrors of war. They also spoke to pro-Russian militiamen and even with a Russian military officer captured in Ukraine. Shreds of War is one of the few authentic books with on-the-spot coverage, interviews, and dramatic photos documenting the war in Eastern Ukraine.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Postscriptum
• Preface by Ildi Eperjesi
• Preface by Oleksandr Kachura
• 1 Counterpropaganda Ukrainian Style: The Sound of Trembits Will Be Heard Even in Donetsk
• 2 Food Comes from Volunteers, and the Ammunition Comes from the Ukrainian Army
• 3 How Volunteers in Western Ukraine Help the Army and the Refugees
• 4 Avdiivka: Russia, Enough Is Enough Don’t Shell Us. We Do Not Want to Join the “DPR”
• 5 In the Gray Zone You Are Either Abandoned or Live in the Crossfire
• 6 The Lugansk Banana Republic How Is It Different from Donetsk and Why the Zolote Checkpoint Will Never Be Opened
• 7 “I Only Call It Forced Deportation”
• 8 What Made Putin Drop Dead
• 9 “Our Blood Is Like Water for Them”
• 10 “Life Has Changed Dramatically but No One Cares about It.” The Man before Whose Eyes the War Took Place Told Us What It Looks Like
• 11 “Donetsk Is the Same and the People Are the Same but the Situation Is Distressing”
• 12 An Icon on the Bulletproof Vest, Black Cat and Puppies What Helps Ukrainian Troops Survive under Avdiivka
• 13 Nine Myths about Shirokino Ranging from Ghostlike Local Residents to the “Objective” Observers of the OSCE
• 14 A Militant of “DPR”: The Ukrainians Are Worse than the Chechens and the Taliban! They Pray to Their Bandera Portrait and Push Us to Moscow
• 15 “Ravlik” Bogdan Chaban: The Terrorists Do Everything So That the Residents of Donetsk Become Partisans
• 16 “I Am Not Sorry about the Civilians as They Are Guilty Themselves.” A “Militiaman” Told Us about the Hazing, and the Desire to Give Up
• 17 “I Presented the War in Its Reality”
• 18 Paramedic “Spring”: It Is Not Scary to Save People under Fire. It Is Scary to Sit at Home and Watch the News
• 19 “The Moscow Patriarchate Is Convinced That Ukrainian Priests Are Schismatic”
• 20 “We Do Not Need Peace on Russian Terms”
• 21 “It Is the Personal War of Putin and Russia Doesn’t Need It”
• 22 “I’m Often Threatened Because I Am Ukrainian.”
• 23 “The Local Residents Were Sitting in the Cellar. They Were Afraid That We Would Eat Them.”
• 24 “There Are So Many Shattered Human Lives in the Donbas”
• 25 “Just for Spite—This Is the Mentality of the Residents of Transcarpathia. It Is Helpful in the Fights in the Donbas”
• 26 “My Helmet Caught the Bullet Meant for Me. It Remained in the Kevlar”
• 27 “Although War Is War, Ethnic Hungarian Soldiers Slaughtered a Pig on the Frontline”
• 28 “History Taught Us That You Just Cannot Get Separated from Russia Peacefully. Russia Is Russia”
• 29 “Unless Ukraine and Georgia Should Combine Forces, It Is Unlikely We Can Win This War”
• 30 “If the Russians Occupy Ukraine, Then the Next Countries to Be Occupied Will Be Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic”
• 31 “People Have Discovered the Donbas for Themselves Anew”
• 32 “Children Were Born Even during the World War”
• 33 “I Buried My Whole Family”
• 34 Why Do Hungarians Fight in the Donbas?
• 35 “Russia Has Forsaken Us. Nobody Needs Us”
• 36 “The Grenade Exploded at Eye Level. The Time of the Explosion Was Written with My Blood”
• 37 “In Donetsk, Everyone Knows Where the Russian Military Intelligence Lives and Where the FSB, the Federal Security Service Is”
• 38 “We See How People May Change When They Are United. We Understand Now That We Can Assert Our Rights and Our Human Dignity.”