Merry Christmas from the Ukraine War & I'll introduce myself

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First of all I'd like to say hello, Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to the Steamit community.
Today is my 7th day on the Steemit platform and I am really enjoying my experience so far
I've been getting a great feedback on my reports. I would like to give you an idea of
who I am & #introducemyself.
(Or watch on Youtube Below)

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.

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 continued to stay after the referendum.

After they voted to break away from Ukraine the people set up a perimeter to make their own country. Ukraine attacked the Donetsk People's Republic, Where I am right now. I decided to stay and report in Donetsk. I had to learn the language even still today I'm learning a bit every day of Russian.They speak Russian here they always have, the people here are ethnically Russian, they don't speak Ukrainian here. I stayed on and filmed throughout the war. No other Western English journalists have stayed here as long as I have.

I've filmed as much of the facts here of this war as I can and I continue to do everyday I've done more research and filming on the shooting down of mh17 than any other journalist has on site here and I always try to bring you the most accurate reports that I can. I don't put my opinions in the reports at all I just
bring you the facts.

I have been in heavy battle many times

I have also met and married the Love of my Life

And we have a wonderfull Son

And again Merry Christmas from our Family to yours

Please help me spread my message through the Steemit community and follow me so
you can get daily reports from the Ukraine war so you can have an idea of what the people want & what's really happening here and what has happened. All of my material is my original material. I
will be putting up some of my older materials on occasion as I start my experience in the Steemit community but there will also be at least 30 reports a month coming of original content that I'm filming on the day, breaking news of what's happening in the Ukraine war.
Remember that I am a independent journalist funded by you my viewers and readers. Please support my independent journalism by Upvoting, Resteeming and Donating Steem $ SBD

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