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Donetsk Oblast, [c] also referred to as Donechchyna (Ukrainian: ... The area of the oblast (26,517 km 2) comprises about 4.4% of the total area of the country.
Donetsk, capital and most populous city in Donetsk Oblast [2] [32] Mariupol, second most populous city and deepest port on the Sea of Azov [2] [33] Makiivka, an industrial city in the Donetsk-Makiivka urban agglomeration [2] [34] Kramatorsk, the oblast's de facto capital since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War [2] [35] Bakhmut, a major industrial city largely destroyed during the Battle of ...
Donetsk (UK: / d ɒ n ˈ j ɛ t s k / don-YETSK, [1] US: / d ə n-/ dən-; [2] [3] Ukrainian: Донецьк [doˈnɛtsʲk] ⓘ; Russian: Донецк [dɐˈnʲetsk] ⓘ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of ...
Until 2020, Donetsk Oblast was subdivided into 46 regions: 18 districts and 28 city municipalities (mis'krada or misto), officially known as "territories governed by city councils". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2014, the War in Donbas started, and whereas some areas are controlled by the central Ukrainian government, others are under control of separatists ...
The population of all Ukrainian oblasts and other regions was recorded in 2012. [1] Note that since the war in Donbas started in the spring of 2014, 1,5 million people from Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast have either fled to Russia or to other parts of Ukraine.
Russian forces took control of two more settlements in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Saturday, the latest in a series of gains it has reported in its steady ...
Pokrovsk (Ukrainian: Покровськ, IPA: [poˈkrɔu̯sʲk] ⓘ; Russian: Покровск), formerly known as Krasnoarmiisk [a] (until 2016) and Grishino (until 1934), [b] is a city and the administrative center of Pokrovsk Raion in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is located 56 kilometres (35 mi) northwest of Donetsk. [3]
It is the second significant town in Donetsk to fall to the Russians this month after Moscow claimed control of Kurakhove roughly 20 miles to the northeast. The city of Toretsk, further north, has ...