Pro-Russians cheer and clap as miners in hard hats march into the heavily fortified zone around the occupied state building in Donetsk: here they are heroes, the soul of an economically depressed coal region fighting for survival. As the protesters rally in support of separatists holed up inside the building, virulent anger against the new pro-Western government in Kyiv and their plans to shift out of Russia's orbit is stoked by a real and visceral fear for their future.
Agence France-Presse: For Ukraine’s eastern rust belt, it’s Russia or bust
A woman screams in support of the pro-Russian separatists outside the Donetsk Oblast State Administration building on April 10.
