Donbass

…To understand uh what happens this year, I think we have to go back to the very beginnings of of the war, um, which were in uh twenty fourteen when Russia seized Crimea and uh the eastern Donbass region uh in a smaller scale war.…

…The enormous lycopsy trees fell and lay in the swamps, partially submerged, building up in layers that eventually, over tens of millions of years of pressure and geological burial, became the coal seams that miners in Pennsylvania, Yorkshire, the Ruhr Valley and Donbass would extract 250 million years later.…

…And there's one incident which really made him a kind of star here, which is back in 2014, Lucy, you remember, Russia staged this covert takeover of the eastern Donbass region and tried to grab the city of Mariupol.…