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[[File:Yuzov field.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Yuzov shale gas field in Donbas.<ref>https://archive.ph/24KHx/a9869d7aa7b9d9c072e4957f1b8ea963fa512126.jpg</ref>]]
[[File:Yuzov field.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Yuzov shale gas field in Donbas.<ref>https://archive.ph/24KHx/a9869d7aa7b9d9c072e4957f1b8ea963fa512126.jpg</ref>]]
On January 16, 2022 Ukraine mandated that all print media are to switch to the Ukrainian language. State Language Protection Commissioner Taras Kremin said in a [[Facebook]] post, "In accordance with the law, print mass media can be produced in other languages, on the condition that the number of copies issued in a foreign language is equal to the number of copies issued in the state language [Ukrainian]. All language versions must be issued under the same name and be equal to each other in terms of content, volume, printing techniques. They must enter circulation under the same number and on the same day."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1388729</ref>
On January 16, 2022 Ukraine mandated that all print media are to switch to the Ukrainian language. State Language Protection Commissioner Taras Kremin said in a [[Facebook]] post, "In accordance with the law, print mass media can be produced in other languages, on the condition that the number of copies issued in a foreign language is equal to the number of copies issued in the state language [Ukrainian]. All language versions must be issued under the same name and be equal to each other in terms of content, volume, printing techniques. They must enter circulation under the same number and on the same day."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1388729</ref>
==Nazi paramilitary groups===
In April 2014, the 25th separate airborne brigade of the High Mobility Assault Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was sent to Donetsk to wage war on its residents. However, in the words of the embittered interim-president Turchynov on April 17, 2014 at the Verkhovna Rada, “the 25th separate Airborne Brigade, whose military showed cowardice and surrendered arms, will be disestablished… The Defense Ministry has received this instruction.”<ref> https://thegrayzone.com/2022/07/30/zelensky-militants-convicted-child-rape-torture-military/
Turchynov sent a corresponding order to the Prosecutor-General’s office demanding the criminal punishment of the disobedient servicemen. While the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense denied that the brigade defected to the side of the separatists, the unit’s tanks began to fly the flag of the DNR, as even mainstream Western media reported.<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/04/ukraines-offensive-falters-as-elite-units-defect-to-pro-russia-side</ref>
Days after the interim President “disbanded” the 25th Brigade, the newly installed “deputy governor” of Dnipropetrovsk </ref>announced the formation of “special forces” in order to “protect the oblast” from falling into “Russia’s hands.” While the median Ukrainian salary for 2014 was 3480₴ ($117 USD), “volunteers” for these battalions, according to the Deputy Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Hennadiy Korban, received 29528₴ ($1000) per month. That’s nearly ten times the average salary in Ukraine.
After the loss of parts of the Oblasts of Lugansk and Donetsk and the entire peninsula of Crimea, Kiev believed that Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, with its large Russian-speaking population, would be the next Oblast to declare independence. Unable to rely on the Ukrainian military, nor the current police force, which they deemed to be “infiltrated by pro-Russian separatists,” Kiev officially deputized the fascistic paramilitary forces that functioned as street muscle during the Maidan coup.
In March 2014, Kiev passed a law establishing a “national guard” which was to be overseen by the Ministry of the Interior.<ref>https://cis-legislation.com/document.fwx?rgn=66315</ref> With the consent of the then-Interior Minister [[Arsen Avakov]], Ukrainian billionaire [[Igor Kholmoisky]] bankrolled the creation of some of the country’s more notorious [[Territorial Defense]] forces.
===Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas===
===Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas===