But what everyone tried to avoid happened anyway - the war for independence.

The Independence of Donbass. All Ukraine fights for is Territory.

Ukrainian recorded himself committing war crimes when he killed civilians from his APC

Machine translation: Fox (Konstantin Nikitenko) - drove around Mariupol in an armored personnel carrier and shot at people, for fun.He posted his own death sentence in the form of a video on the net.
Civilians can be seen on the start of the video left between the sign and the tree...

Irina Bykova from Mariupol testifies how Ukraine soldiers/Azov Battalion were shooting at civilians

When they tried to leave the city. - Zelinsky 17a... We went to the DPR humanitarian bus. We were (still) on the side where there were Ukrainian residents, on the other side - the DPR (military). Ukraine began to shoot us from machine guns... they began to fire mortars.

Irina Nikolaevna from Mariupol testifies that Ukrainian military are shooting civilians.

Irina Nikolaevna from Mariupol (lives on Shevchenko Boulevard): — From the very beginning, from the first days, we were fired upon from Ukraine (Ukrainian military).

Human Shields: Ukrainian Man Shot in Leg Testifies that Ukraine Army Is Shooting at Civilians

Russian forces come across an old man who said he was shot by Ukrainian soldiers while trying to find water. The wounded civilian crawled to safety. He accused Ukraine's forces of preventing residents from leaving buildings and threatened to shoot them if they did -- in an apparent tactic to create human shields.

MAN RELATES AS HE WAS LEAVING MARIUPOL, UKRAINIAN MILITARY WERE SHOOTING CIVILIANS

Ukrainian marine testifies to shooting a civilian

In this video, the senior sergeant of the 501st battalion of the Marine Infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Anton Cherednik, tells how he shot a civilian of the Vostochny district in Mariupol after the civilian failed the 'pronunciation test' of the Ukrainian word "palyanista"

Captured Ukrainian fighters confess to their crimes against civilians shooting women for refusing

Ukrainian Nazi Soldiers Killed Ethnic Russians That Tried To Flee Mariupol Before The Arrival Of RU

One cam shows Azov Nazis shooting at apartment buildings with bazookas and disappearing again.

(VERY DISTURBING AND GRAPHIC SOLDIERS RUNNING KICKING OF CIVILIANS IN THE FACE)

Nazi Thugs Doing Drivebys For Fun

Ukrainian forces shooting at Ukrainian civilians.

Ukrainian soldiers randomly shoot civilian building...