Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (click to enlarge):
Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the so-called leader of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People’s Republic," claimed that after Ukraine’s independence a foreign ideology was imposed on its citizens. Speaking at the so-called First Youth Socio-Political Forum of "DPR," he said that it is important to teach children "traditional values."
According to Zakharchenko, Ukrainians were "oppressed" and "told" that Coca-cola is better than Baikal, a soft drink first produced in the USSR, or that Mickey Mouse is more interesting than Mouse depicted in a Soviet era cartoon.
"If we were once raised on such basic concepts as family, loyalty, brotherhood, love for the motherland, now we understand that we are raised on Coca-Cola, Mickey Mouse, jeans, and so on, on Playboy, on a democracy that implies that the family could have two dads or two moms," he said. "This is absolutely unacceptable."