Original sentence: He argued that the issue had to be seen from 2014, and that the peoples of the Donbas had self-determined through two referendums (which were illegal and widely condemned as fraudulent), and that children of the two republics had been killed by the Ukrainian army for eight years.Jorit described a mural of a young girl that he made in occupied Mariupol in 2022, as seeking to present a narrative of the bombing of the city and its inhabitants by "NATO missiles"
Edited sentence: He argued that the issue had to be seen from 2014, and that the peoples of the Donbas had self-determined through two referendums (which were illegal and widely condemned as fraudulent), and that children of the two republics had been killed by the Ukrainian army for eight years, echoing Russian war propaganda.Jorit described a mural of a young girl that he made in occupied Mariupol, a city virtually destroyed by Russia in 2022, as seeking to present a narrative of the bombing of the city and its inhabitants by "NATO missiles"