Watch this documentary by French journalist Anne-Laure Bonnel to understand what Ukraine has done to the people of Donbass and to better grasp the desire of this region to either be independent or to belong to Russia.
The war in the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas began in 2014, lasted eight years and has killed over 13,000 people, displaced millions, and led to the worst rupture in relations between the Russian Federation and the West since the end of the Cold War.
The war was caused by inherent cleavages in Ukrainian society, combined with clumsy and self-interested intervention by outside powers.
The war’s effects on Ukraine have been profound: the collapse of the post-Soviet Ukrainian political elite; billions of dollars in direct and indirect losses to the Ukrainian economy; a wholesale restructuring of the Ukrainian armed forces; social dislocation and psychological trauma; and unprecedented environmental damage.
Declaring the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR, respectively), armed Russian-backed separatist groups seized government buildings throughout the Donbas, leading to armed conflict with the Ukrainian government forces.
You can see how Ukrainians behaved in the Donbass in this documentary.
Back in 2015, Anne-Laure Bonnel, a young director, and mother of a French family decides to accompany Alexander, a father of a Ukrainian family, to the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine in a pro-Russian zone.
At the heart of the war, she captures the terrible images of a deadly conflict and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.
观看这部由法国记者Anne-Laure Bonnel拍摄的纪录片，了解乌克兰对顿巴斯人民所做的一切，并更好地把握这一地区希望独立或归属俄罗斯的愿望。
被称为顿巴斯的乌克兰东部地区的战争始于2014年，持续了8年，已造成超过13000人死亡，数百万人流离失所，并导致了自冷战结束以来俄罗斯联邦和西方之间最严重的关系破裂。
这场战争是由乌克兰社会固有的裂痕造成的，再加上外部势力笨拙而利己的干预。
这场战争对乌克兰的影响是深远的：后苏联时期的乌克兰政治精英崩溃；乌克兰经济直接和间接损失数十亿美元；乌克兰武装部队全面改组；社会混乱和心理创伤；以及前所未有的环境破坏。
宣布成立顿涅茨克人民共和国和卢甘斯克人民共和国（分别为DPR和LPR），俄罗斯支持的武装分离主义团体夺取了整个顿巴斯地区的政府大楼，导致了与乌克兰政府军的武装冲突。
你可以在这部纪录片中看到乌克兰人在顿巴斯的表现。
早在2015年，年轻的导演Anne-Laure Bonnel，一个法国家庭的母亲，决定陪同乌克兰家庭的父亲Alexander，前往乌克兰东部亲俄地区的顿巴斯地区。
在战争的中心地带，她捕捉到了一场致命冲突的可怕画面和一场前所未有的人道主义灾难。