Conveniently, you start the clock running with the uprising in Donbas without referencing the reason for the uprising - namely the coup which toppled the last democratically-elected all-Ukraine government in February 2014, in the vanguard of which were avowed Neo-Nazis later formed into armed militia groups and assimilated into the coup govt's armed forces,

Mariupol has always been a Russophone city and its residents have just been liberated from the grip of Europe's ISIS.

This to me is something to celebrate not lament.