Bullets, Not Ballots in Donetsk: Russian Roulette (Dispatch 42)

Subscribe to VICE News here: Almost 6 months after the Euromaidan revolution that toppled former president Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainians went to the polls to elect a new president in the midst of an anti-terror operation to wrestle Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts back under Kiev’s control. The separatists of the Donetsk People’s Republic openly threatened the election in the region and had stormed a number of electoral commissions and intimidated electoral workers. In resp