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I've been getting a great feedback on my reports. I would like to give you an idea of
who I am & #introducemyself. I am Patrick Lancaster, I'm an independent journalist
that has been reporting from the "rebel" or Donetsk People's Republic territory of the Ukraine war for the last almost four years. No other Western journalist has been here nearly as long as I have I'm from st. Louis Missouri, grew up watching the Cardinals and the St. Louis Blues. I stayed in st. Louis until I was 18 and that's when I joined the US Navy I was stationed in Yokosuka Japan on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk for almost five years and after that I went back started a construction company in the United States did that for a couple years and was also a real estate agent but in 2011 I left the United States and came to Europe to basically find myself and find where I belong in the world and I found that after three years travelling through Europe I became a photographer and when the events in Ukraine started to develop and the revolution that some call it our coup (in Kiev) that others called It. It was at the beginning of 2014 when I became interested in the situation in Ukraine and I didn't go to Kiev but when the events in Crimea started to develop when the the people of Crimea I went there and I started shooting in video reports as a journalist and I witnessed the referendum look myself and witnessed what the people of Crimea wanted and how they felt about the events in Kiev ,what they referred to as a coup that removed their president. After staying in Crimea for six weeks I tried to absorbed what I could about the situation. After Crimea I came to Donetsk because there started unrest with the people.I yet again witnessed a referendum where only this time the people of Donetsk voted to break away from Ukraine because they viewed the old Ukraine as dead because their president was removed without them having any say in the matter. They voted for president Yanukovych to take office and most people do admit that Yanukovych had his problems but they feel that they had no say in him being removed so they decided to break away from Ukraine and they voted to break away at the referendum I filmed the referendum myself I saw the people voting and can seen it on my youtube channel(soon Dtube:)) and I continue
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