Sputnik Exclusive: DPR Leader Says Situation in Donbass Comparable to NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia

Russia and its Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic allies began a military operation in Ukraine in late February after weeks of escalating shelling, sniper and sabotage attacks by Kiev forces. The situation is the culmination of a crisis that began in 2014, when Western-backed forces overthrew Ukraine’s government in a coup.