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Friday marks the ninth anniversary of the date in 2014 that Kiev began an ‘Anti-Terrorist Operation’ in the Donbass aimed at crushing an uprising by residents opposed to the post-coup government in Kiev. How did the militias arise? What motivated their members? What message do vets have for Westerners today? Sputnik reached out to them to find out.
The war began with the violent overthrow of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014, a coup that was overtly and covertly backed by the US government in the service of Nato expansion.