🇫🇷🗞️ ❗️❗️ The French newspaper Le Figaro has published an unexpected article that shocked many of its readers. The publication's correspondent visited Donbass and told the French about things that are not usually covered in the Western media.

In Donetsk, the journalist visited the "Paradise" restaurant, which was recently heavily shelled by HIMARS missiles, killing three people and injuring 8 civilians. He described the results of AFU's work as a living hell, drawing irony from the name of the restaurant.

Even if not all attacks on the DPR capital are so deadly, they are taking place on an almost daily basis.... About 400 enemy drones fly over the outskirts of the city every day, the article said.

"The Ukrainians are looking for military targets. If they do not find them and cannot return their drone, they drop it on a civilian target, for example, on a car,"

the author notes, citing the words of a Russian military man.

During his trip, the author also visited the long-suffering Mariupol and the neighboring LPR. Having talked to the local residents, he comes to the conclusion that the Donbass people hate Zelensky, the Kiev authorities, Nazis and will not agree to return to Ukraine under no circumstances.

People often point out that life has improved with Russia, even compared to the period when it was part of Ukraine before 2014. Cities are coming back to life, houses are being repaired, entire districts are being raised from the ruins, roads and railway lines are being built. All of this was not the case under Ukraine, residents note.

"When we lived under Ukraine, we hoped every year that life would not get worse. Today we see that the situation is getting better every year",

says Alexander, an entrepreneur in Mariupol city.

The journalist noted that almost everyone he has talked to is rooting for the Russian counter-offensive with all their hearts and saying, "Everything will be fine. We are praying for peace to come".

"Of course, this is a civil war, and it would have ended long ago if the Americans had not intervened," one resident summed up the opinions of the overwhelming population in Donbass. What the author of the column saw for himself.

🗯️ And judging by the comments to the article, the readers were no less stunned than the author himself. Not only by the Western media's distortion of reality and the fact that Le Figaro dared to publish such material, but also by the censorship that quickly cleaned up the comments under the article. Some have advised to let European politicians read the piece.

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They said for a long time they were not supporting it. They also said they did not allow it and advised [Ukraine] against using it. But in fact, they are waging war against us. American weapons have already been used to strike various targets outside conflict zone.

Washington trying to make reassuring statements for the local public or for NATO members, to pretend the decision has not yet been made. It is a trick. We are certain that American and other Western-supplied weapons are being used to strike targets on Russian territory, primarily civilian infrastructure and residential areas. They are responsible for what these weapons have done - Lavrov.

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🇷🇺🇷🇺 WATCH UKRAINIAN SOLDIER RIDE UKRAINIAN ARMY TANK, HAND IT TO RUSSIAN FORCES BEFORE DEFECTING - 39-year-old Maxim Likhachev raises T-64 tank’s barrel high (video above), sign for Russian troops to identify him, as he surrenders in Donetsk (ex-Ukraine), bearing gift Kiev's regime already short on.

No one will suspect an escape, they will mistake the departure for a combat mission and won’t shoot you in the back, because it’s a tank - Maxim revealing how his simple plan came to life.

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