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On 2 May 2014, 42 pro-Russian activists died in the Trade Union House fire on Kulikove Pole Square, Odessa. Each year on that date, 8pm, sirens sound across Russian-occupied Donbas. The founding martyrology of the whole Russian occupation project.
17 July 2014: a Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile from Russia's 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. 298 killed, 196 Dutch. The Unfixed Stain archetype: a war crime so thoroughly documented that the perpetrator's Disinfolklore apparatus can only try to dilute, not refute.
86 days of siege. ~22,000 civilian deaths. The Drama Theatre with 'ДЕТИ' painted outside. The Maternity Hospital strike. Eight years of Luhansk-direction frozen-conflict shelling converged on one port city in 2022. Pre-positioned archetypal preparation, executed at scale.
From 26 May 2014 to 22 January 2015 — eight full months — Ukrainian troops held the new terminal of Donetsk International Airport against continuous Russian-backed assault. 'The Cyborgs' — a name originally given to them, in grudging respect, by their attackers. A Thermopylae archetype Russia could not digest.
8 August 2017: the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission installed a remote observation camera at the Donetsk Filter Station to document shelling origins. It operated for one day. On 9 August 2017, it was shot at from south/south-west and destroyed. The Witness-Who-Was-Shot archetype in eighteen-word form.
Late August 2014: Russian regular forces — the 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade from Ulyanovsk — ambushed Ukrainian troops retreating along a supposed 'humanitarian corridor.' 366 Ukrainian dead. The event where the Little Green Men mask slipped completely — and which Russian state media memory-holed.
On 6 June 2023, Russia destroyed the Kakhovka Dam while under Russian military control. 18 cubic kilometres of water flooded Kherson Oblast. The Water Weapon archetype — tested at small scale for eight years in Luhansk — reached its operational ceiling at continental scale.
254 days of Russian occupation, then liberation. Photographs of yellow-and-blue flags in Kherson's central square on 11 November 2022 proved that short-duration archetypal installation does not produce durable identity-change. The counter-archetype demonstrated in a single day.
Approximately 2,400 Ukrainian defenders held out for 82 days in the underground tunnels of Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks. The 2014 Donetsk Airport Cyborgs archetype, echoed at scale in 2022 — and a multi-archetype collision that revealed Russian Disinfolklore's instrumentalism.
On 2 April 2022 Ukrainian forces retook Bucha and found 400+ executed civilians. Every Luhansk archetype's downstream product arrived in one suburban town. Bucha is where Disinfolklore denial failed because forensic documentation exceeded archetypal saturation.
On 15 May 2018, Putin drove a KAMAZ truck across the newly-opened 19-kilometre Crimea Bridge. Infrastructure-as-sovereignty-ritual, at imperial scale. A concrete act of Russkiy-Mir 'reunification.' Struck twice by Ukrainian strategic operations: 8 October 2022, 17 July 2023.
14 January – 18 February 2015. Russian-backed forces encircled and seized the strategic rail hub of Debaltseve during the very weeks Minsk II was being signed. The kotel (cauldron) archetype: Soviet military iconography's culinary metaphor for extermination, deployed as diplomatic leverage.