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Donetsk oblast is not only about mines and slagheaps, not Kobzon and Anna Akhmetova, but dozens of talented painters, writers, and artists.
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The Soviet authorities skillfully cultivated the legend of the "comprehensive Donbas" as the "heart of Russia", which was a source of coal and metal for all the republics of the former union, in the public's imagination.However, powerful propaganda covered even those regions where agriculture or food production were usually
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The occupation authorities claim that residents of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts were waiting for Russian troops and dreamed of joining the Russian Federation.
Similar propaganda messages are still being spread.However, the Russians do not tell about the partisan movement and support for the Armed Forces by locals in occupation.
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There are many stereotypes associated with the Luhansk oblast. For example, many people believe that these are only teriсons and factories, that everyone in the oblast speak only Russian, or that Luhanshchyna is a gray and gloomy region.
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The territories of modern Donetsk oblast have been inhabited since the Stone Age. We can speak about Ukrainians such only from the sixteenth century. The statement that the east was inhabited exclusively by "Russians" is a complete lie. Besides, it is believed that the east from edge to edge - "wild steppe", but it is also
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A school has been a center of Russian propaganda in the occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts for more than 9 years.Every year the occupation authorities bring thousands of textbooks with rewritten history of Russia and facts about the modern war to educational institutions.Some schoolchildren resist propaganda. They are looking
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Forced mobilization is ongoing in the occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk oblast.Men are being taken based on conscription notices, captured on the streets, and even kidnapped to replenish the ranks of Russian forces.However, the occupying authorities do not acknowledge this fact and consider mobilized men as volunteers.
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Occupation government structures in Novopskov spread information about their "brotherhood with Russia," emphasizing a "shared past and roots" by appealing to the history of the Soviet Union period and the name of the city. But is it really the case?
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The occupiers say that Luhansk is mines. However, there is only one mine in the city.
They develop a narrative about "ordinary people", forgetting about cultural achievements. All of them talk about "prospects for young people" in Luhansk, but cherish nostalgia for the Soviet Union.
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"We are saving the brotherly nation!", "Luhansk is a Russian city!", "All Ukrainian in Luhansk oblast is artificial" — Russians propagandists use these and other narratives, working with the subconscious of people in the currently occupied territories. But is it really so?
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Russian propagandists constantly claim and emphasize that Luhanshchyna is "originally Russian land inhabited by Russian people", but this fact isn't real.
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The Russian authorities are actively deporting children from the temporarily occupied territories to Russia and Belarus. 19,546 people were deported for the reason of "health improvement", "rest", "getting education". Children from Luhansk oblast are also among them. Therefore, the so-called "occupiers'
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The Russians occupied Ukrainian territories, but they do not need people.The so-called "checkpoints" are functioning on the border between Luhansk oblast and the Russian Federation. People from occupied settlements go to Russia for food and other purchases, because it is cheaper there. The residents of Luhanshchyna are treated
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Spreading fakes and launching them into the information space in the occupied territories, the enemy resorts to various tactics. One of them is to take real facts, provisions of laws and fill them with false content.
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For years, Russia has had an influence on the Ukrainian territories of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts. Russia has always tried to connect with these oblasts the Russian Federation in order to start a war for expanding territories.
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Russian propagandists still cannot come to terms with the fact that Western partners are providing aid to Ukraine despite the duration of the conflict.
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Luhansk is a city that has been under Russian occupation for 9 years. The invaders are constantly trying to convince people that the “Russian peace” has made this city better. What methods do they use for this? No, they do not support the people financially or modernize Luhansk, but use well-prepared propaganda, as usual for
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The Russian propaganda media don't stop.
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The occupiers continue their information propaganda campaign in Luhansk oblast. TRYBUN analyzed the fakes which Russians spread in July 2023.
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Suspension of pensions, deprivation of citizenship, mobilization at the border: fakes spread by the occupiers in Donbas
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