Longtime MMA fighter Jeff Monson appears to have stayed busy since announcing his retirement from combat sports last month.
The 51-year-old has apparently been hard at work putting together a documentary focusing on Ukraine’s Donbas region. Monson detailed the project in a recent interview with RIA Novosti that was posted on Telegram (h/t Bloody Elbow).
“The film is called ‘Eight Years Before.’ It’s actually going to be finished at the end of the month,” Monson said in the video. “We’ve finished filming, we’re doing the editing, it’s almost finished, it’s two weeks away from being completely finished. The whole object of this film is to show people – the whole world forgot about the people of Donbas. Everybody six months ago was saying, ‘Oh, Russia’s so bad, Russia’s invading Ukraine.’ No, Russia came to save the people of Donbas. And people are like, ‘Where’s Donbas, where’s Donetsk?’ Nobody in the world, expect perhaps Russia, understood what was happening.”
Donbas is located in Eastern Ukraine, and the region’s cities of Donetsk and Luhansk are currently controlled by pro-Russian separatist groups amidst the ongoing conflict between the two countries.
https://www.mmanews.com/2022/09/mma-ukraine-russia-documentary/