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Bentley has lived in the Donbas for over a decade, so he knows the reality on the ground. And through him we confirm that, while Russian geopolitical goals surely play a role in the war, there is also a very real humanitarian issue for Donetsk civilian areas, under constant Ukrainian artillery fire for the last 9 years.

Thanks for sharing this. The pro-Nazi zeepers here (like Berlin above) desperately deny every reference to the anti-civilian terrorism practiced by Ukraine since 2014, but personal reports like this are an important reminder of what has been going on.

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Bentley is one of the people who started the fighting. His viewpoint is about as unbiased as that of the Hamas PR department.

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" He has been there from the start, and served in Vostok Battalion and XAH Spetsnaz Battalion in 2014, 2015 and 2017, fighting on the side of the Donetsk People’s Republic "

That means he's a Russian special forces operator.

So instead of him being like a Hamas PR operative, he is like a Hamas gunman talking about Israel. Totally unbiased.

If he saw shelling it was because his Russian artillery team was receiving counter battery fire.