The Story About the War in Donbas & Luhansk
Documentary by French journalist Anne-Laure Bonnel. | Back in 2015, Anne-Laure Bonnel, a young director and mother of a French family, decided to follow Alexander, a father of a Ukrainian family, to the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine in a pro-Russian zone. At the heart of the war, she captures the disturbing images of a deadly conflict and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.
The war in the eastern Ukrainian region known as Donbas started in 2015, lasted for five years and has killed over 13.000 people. [It has] displaced millions, and led to a sharp break in relations between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War.
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.
After declaring the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR, respectively), armed Russian-backed separatist groups seized government buildings across the Donbas, leading to armed conflict with the Ukrainian government forces.
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