These were the images of a country falling apart. After pro-Russian forces took over cities in the east and the Ukrainian Army finally moved to restore its authority, there were videos of pro-Russian protesters trying to prevent tanks from entering their towns. The videos that characterized the conflict were not of rifle fire but of protests: riot police beating demonstrators as people shouted, “What are you doing?” later, young men on the same square, outfitted in motley assortments of helmets and kneepads, counterattacking videos of people arguing videos of people being forced, in eastern Ukraine, to get on their knees. As soon as shots were fired, whoever was making the video would put away the phone and run. Fighting, when it erupted, happened on city streets. It was, at least at first, a small-arms war. The thing about the videos from the war in Ukraine in 2014 was that there were very few war videos.
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