Philip Kireev: "Battle for Donbass" rally

“The Dozhd TV channel counted 200 participants in the action, and the organizers - two thousand. Don’t believe them, about a thousand people came to the action. I’m telling you absolutely.

There were no fights, no incidents either, although some online publications wrote about some kind of brawl. One grandfather at first shouted something in the distance in support of Yanukovych, but then fell silent. I don’t know what happened to him. In general, people came, stood for three hours, listened, chanted, froze and left.

Various representatives of Orthodox and nationalist organizations, a couple of musical groups with patriotic songs, representatives of the militia, several “deputies” of the DPR (one of them said that “Novorossiya should be up to the border with Poland”) and even a “minister” took to the stage. I'm not mistaken, "culture".