"The City Where the War Began" book presented in Pristina
Human rights activists from the Eastern Ukraine Center for Civic Initiatives presented the book, "The City Where the War Began" in Pristina, which talks about the ways and methods used by Russia in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
The book was prepared by the Eastern Ukraine Center for Civic Initiatives together with partner organizations, based on the testimonies of residents of the occupied and later liberated Ukrainian city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region, CE Report quotes Kosova Press.
The director of the Eastern Ukraine Center for Civic Initiatives, Volodymyr Shcherbachenko, said that the book was prepared based on the testimonies of residents of the occupied and later liberated Ukrainian city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region.
"We are interviewing people, gathering and asking them what happened to them, how their rights were violated. That phase of the work was very important because we live in a peaceful state and we never expected war to happen. The same story with state officials and many other people," he stressed.
He told about various aspects of the life of the occupied city that were reproduced in each new settlement occupied by the Russians.
According to him, life in occupied Ukrainian cities was difficult, while he also spoke about the role of pro-Russian propaganda.
"We can draw many parallels regarding the situation in Ukraine and for example in the Balkans, in the former Yugoslavia, and what we want to discuss with you is how you see Russian and Serbian propaganda, and what we can do in order to combat it. We analyzed a lot of materials from open sources on the Internet and in the media, a lot of conductive interviews with people representing support agencies, so we gathered information. What is very important is that this situation can continue to become very difficult, as you can see it is changing drastically all over the world," he emphasized.
The book presentation in Pristina was made with the support of the Humanitarian Law Center in Kosovo and the Ukrainian-Kosovar Association "Bridges of Friendship".
