◾‘We didn’t go to West Ukraine to fight with tanks and planes. They came to us,

◾‘We didn’t go to West Ukraine to fight with tanks and planes. They came to us, but we’re somehow to blame,’ says Yuri Filippov, head of sales at a bakery in Lugansk.

◾In 2014, the Ukrainian military shelled the bakery; it couldn’t operate for over a month. He cannot understand how the Ukrainian forces could fire on civilians. ‘They sent tanks and planes here to fight whom? Ordinary citizens.’