Paweł Pieniążek: Greetings from Novorossiya: Eyewitness to the War in Ukraine

DPR. See Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR)

Druzhkivka, 20, 86

elections, 49, 94, 98, 100-101, 144-45, 176; presidential, 43, 136, 176. See also Central Election Commission

electricity, lack of, 105, 107, 130, 180

Euromaidan, 38, 144

European Union, the, 35, 49

Facebook: American journalist on, 63; Avakov on, 79; Defense Ministry’s page on, 81; Khorosheva on, 72; Russian equivalent of (Vkontakte), 121

fascists: in Donetsk region, 55; in Donbas, 59; separatist name for nationalists, 26, 27, 37, 64, 92, 95

federalists, so-called, 51; Federal Security Service (FSB), 75, 150

Filatov, Boris, 40, 42

flags, 32, 37, 40, 59, 109; Russian in Slovyansk, 23, 59, 61. See also Ukrainian flags

gas, lack of, 105, 180

Girkin, Igor “Strelkov,” 75, 109, 161, 162

Gorbik, Evgeny, 74, 176

Grad rocket launch system, 126, 182

greens (little green men), 20, 23, 176; in Slovyansk, 59, 61, 72-74, 76-77, 86

Gubarev, Pavel, 10, 11, 14, 27, 91, 160; detained, 66

Horlivka, 20, 64, 98

Hrabove, site of plane debris, 154, 158, 160, 161

Ilovaisk, battle of, 149, 176

Internet: Levyj Bereg ( Left Bank ) magazine, 149; Russian Spring website, 162, 189; websites, 150, 154. See also Facebook; Twitter

journalists, 26, 59, 74, 84, 107, 129, 135; detained, 62, 63; international, 56, 63, 64, 119, 120; and Ponomarev, 75-76; at press conferences, 69, 71, 72, 75; and referendum, 94, 97; residents and, 57, 119; Russian, 67, 85, 110, 121; Ukrainian, 52, 83; Western, 48, 64, 121, 125, 139, 154. See also media; photographers

Kernes, Hennadiy, 33, 35

Kharkiv region, 20, 31-33, 37, 55, 81, 86

Khartsyzk, 20, 86

Khmelovy, Anatoly, 73, 75, 90

Khorosheva, Stella, 62, 63, 64, 71, 75

Kiev, 13, 79, 90, 92, 99, 101, 103, 144; and Donbas, 17, 19, 20; the junta in, 17, 67; Maidan, 43

Kolomoyskiy, Igor, 13, 38, 42, 146

Kramatorsk, 20, 48, 80, 110, 112; resident in, 56

Krasnoarmijsk, 86, 98, 142; resident in, 99

Kremlin, 31-32, 83, 99, 110

Kurakhove, 50, 142, 149

Lagin, Roman, 97, 98

Lenin monuments, 10, 33, 35, 38, 57

Luhansk region, 11, 31, 42, 98, 100, 146, 189; insurgents in, 20, 55, 119, 160; Luhansk People’s Republic in, 89; and Yanukovych, 49-50

Maidan, the, 7, 23, 25, 134, 144; Presidential Administration building attacked during, 134, 150

Makiivka, 20, 86

Malaysian Airlines: flight number MH17, 153, 154, 158, 160, 161; resident at the train station, 163

Marinka, 125-26, 127, 130, 136

Mariupol, 20, 81, 86, 167, 172

Mariupol residents, 168, 171; Roman, 119, 175; Taras, 45-46

media, 11, 59, 63, 67, 80-81, 189; in Donetsk, 95, 98; events, 77, 160; Russian social, 121, 154; Ukrainian, 71, 83. See also Internet; journalists; Russian media; television

Mykolaiv region, 20, 31

National Guard of Ukraine, 55, 84, 86, 109, 145, 171, 178; guardsman, “Boost,” 143

National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), 79, 80

Novoazovsk, 86, 171, 172, 176

Novorossiya, 10, 32, 42, 91, 186, 189

NSDC. See National Security and Defense Council (NSDC)

Odessa, 19-20, 31, 42

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), 66, 67, 101, 161

Ostrovsky, Simon, 62, 63

Party of Regions, 43, 45, 47

photographers: in Artemivsk, 143; Crimean, 74; in Donetsk, 6; in Marinka, 129; Max Levin, 149; in Slovyansk, 84; a Slovak, 185. See also media; journalists

Poles, 26, 56, 59, 83, 120, 134, 185

police stations: in Horlivka, 20; in Kramatorsk, 48; in Krasnoarmijsk, 99; in Slovyansk, 59, 62, 107, 109

political parties: Batkivshchyna Party, 66; Radical Party, 95; Self-Reliance, 144. See also Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, the

polling commission, 94, 95, 97, 98, 101

polling stations, 90, 92, 94, 97, 100

Ponomarev, Vyacheslav, 63, 64, 69, 73, 75; at a press conference, 55-56, 62, 66-67, 72; self-proclaimed mayor of Slovyansk, 48, 61; vanished, 109

Poroshenko, Petro, 100, 105, 143, 180, 189

Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, the, 10, 32-33, 47

pro-Russian organizations, 40; Borotba, 33; Donetsk Republic, 10; Oplot, 81; Party of Regions, 32; Russian Bloc, 10. See also Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine

pro-Russians, 10, 14, 17, 19, 27, 110, 131; and demonstrations, 20, 37, 45, 52, 81; and insurgents, 178, 182

pro-Ukrainian movement, 17, 45, 95, 146, 147, 172; and referendum, 98, 99, 100

Putin, Vladimir, 42-43, 49, 149-50, 162, 172, 175

radical organizations, 47, 147

referendum, 37, 49, 75, 81, 120, 126, 176; for independence, 11, 62; and press accreditation, 120; voting in, 89-92, 95, 97-100

Right Sector, 27, 67, 77, 79, 142, 147; Ponomarev and, 55, 62

Russian language, 11, 19, 189; speakers of, 43, 45

Russian media, 27-28, 61, 69, 71, 73, 81, 85, 98, 158; and propaganda, 26, 31-32, 38, 83, 92

Russian Orthodox Army, 131, 150

Russian Orthodoxy, 57, 131

Russian Spring, the, 11, 18, 31, 72, 99; in Dnipropetrovsk, 20; in Donetsk, 17; support of, 35, 52, 79, 131; website, 162, 189

Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), 59, 66-67, 74, 83, 107, 109, 150

separatists, 20, 40, 42, 98, 99, 149, 161; at checkpoints, 67, 69, 71, 76, 130; Cimmerian and his son, 27, 28, 133-34, 135; in Donetsk, 6, 116, 120; and plane crash, 154, 161-62; in Slovyansk, 23, 61, 77; sympathizers with the, 11, 13

Slovyansk, 7, 20, 23, 48, 56, 63, 109; “liberated,” 80, 85-86, 110; October Revolution Square in, 57, 59, 61; Roma households, in, 73-74; Russian flags in, 23, 59, 61; water problems in, 105, 107

SSU. See Security Service of Ukraine (SSU)

Sviatohirsk, 57, 83

Taruta, Serhiy, 11, 171

television, 26, 84, 158, 167, 193

Torez, 153, 163

Turchynov, Oleksandr, 45, 80

Twitter: Borodai on, 154; DPR Press Service on, 168

Ukraine: eastern, 43, 59, 80, 91, 145; southeastern, 10, 31, 42; western Ukraine, 62

Ukrainian flags, 10, 38, 40, 59; in Donetsk, 95; in Khrestishche village, 76; near Kramatorsk, 110; in Mariupol, 172; in Sviatohirsk, 83

Ukrainian forces, 6, 14, 23, 76, 77, 80, 87, 105; in Donetsk, 142; in Kramatorsk, 112; in Novoazovsk, 171; in Slovyansk, 84

Ukrainian media, 71, 83

Ukrainian National Guard. See National Guard of Ukraine

Union of Soviet Officers, 37-38, 40

Vesele (Cheerful), 3, 178

veterans. See World War II veterans

Victory over Fascism Day, 32, 33

Vladimirovich, Vladimir, 55-56

volunteer battalion Donbas, 40, 42, 133, 142-43, 147, 149; “Asker,” 146; Ilya Bohdanov, 149; “Iron Man,” 145; “Pastor,” 142, 145; Semen Semenchenko, 17, 19, 133, 143, 145

volunteer battalions: Azov, 147, 171; battalion Shakhtarsk, 171; Dnipro-1, 40, 171; Kiev-1, 109; Kiev-2, 109. See also Christian Battalion of Saint Mary; volunteer battalion Donbas; Vostok

Vostok, 137, 162

water problems: in Donetsk, 118, 180; in Kramatorsk, 112; in Slovyansk, 105, 107

World War II veterans, 32, 33

Yanukovych, Viktor, 9, 25, 43, 49, 51, 57, 90

Yenakiieve, 49, 81

Zaporozhia region, 20, 31

Zhadan, Serhiy, 33, 35

This English-language publication has been translated from the Polish original: Paweł Pieniążek, Pozdrowienia z Noworosji © 2015 by Paweł Pieniążek and Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, published by Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej

All photos by Paweł Pieniążek and Tomáš Rafa

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