Published 30-09-2015, 08:00
Total silence of the West on the tragedy of Donbass and the children who continue to die under the bombs in Southeast Ukraine. Even though the media in Italy and the west won't tell you, the war in the Donbass is continuing into the second year. |
| Gorlovka under the shells. Children live here. |
in Sputnik Italy
August 14, 2016
Translated from Italian by Tom Winter
September 14, 2015
Total silence of the West on the tragedy of Donbass and the children who continue to die under the bombs in Southeast Ukraine. Even though the media in Italy and the west won't tell you, the war in the Donbass is continuing into the second year.
Why is nothing being said in Italy about the children dying from the bombing in eastern Ukraine? Do children somehow fall into some different category or not represent any interest in Italy, compared to the football news and the summer gossip?
Sputnik Italy spoke with Ennio Bordato, president of the "Help us save the children," which directly helps children and victims of war in the Donbass.
Tatiana Santi: The war continues in the Donbass, but nothing is reported about it in Italy. Why do you think that is?
Ennio Bordato: Telling the truth about Donbass means making people think, making people understand where Europe is headed. Europe is hostage to the US, and serves an American policy that absolutely wants to snatch Russia from Europe and Italy from Russia.
Tatiana Santi: The war in the Donbass is therefore part of an even larger project in your opinion?
E. B: Yes, it's a war principally economic in outlook. The Europe that was growing in economic and cultural ties between countries is undermining the US economy, which can not afford to lose Europe and let dialogue and economic relations prosper between Russia and Europe.
T. S: Just in the city of Gorlovka 16 children died in the first half of 2015. How long will this silence of the West go on, about the children killed in the Donbass? Will this ever get into the press?
E. B. I believe that it will never. This is a very strange war: there is an army, patched together and supported by European and American money, which is bombing houses and residential buildings, hospitals, orphanages, and schools -- from 20 kilometers away.
It is a particularly vicious and inhumane war. Among the civilian casualties are children who were unable to escape and be greeted by the Russian Federation.
Recall that are more than one and half million civilians, displaced from Eastern Ukraine, have found shelter and social services in Russia.
Over 900,000 refugees from Donbass want to stay in Russia.
Many have fled as refugees to Russia, but many remained in the Donbass, where there's no longer any infrastructure, not to speak of subsidies.
It is the tragedy in the tragedy. There are children who do not get out of the cellars for months, if only to get some air for an hour, like prisoners, hoping the while that some bomb does not fall on their head.
T. S. We do not know how long this war is going to last. When will it end? What do you think will become of the rubbled cities of the Donbass?
E. B: It's a matter of the destruction of every economic and civil activity. We speak of people getting bombed out, but let's also consider the social impact. It is a tragedy that will last for the next 20-30 years. If and when the war will end, it will be up to the political side to solve the problems. At the current stage the policy is dead and so is the capacity for dialogue. The American project is being carried out in perfect conditions.
We have to continue to open people's eyes, to state that this war exists! We have to try to make it clear that the solution is European autonomy, a Europe that is not based on money, but on its culture, on relations with all, with the United States, sure, but also with Russia.
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