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Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, while armed separatists seized government buildings and proclaimed the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) as independent states. This sparked the war in Donbas, part of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War. The DPR and LPR are often described as puppet states of Russia during this ...
The general mobilization in the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic began on 19 February 2022, 5 days before the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Tens of thousands of local residents were forcibly mobilized for the war (according to one estimate, up to 140,000 people as of mid-June 2022).
From April 2014 until September 2022, the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) claimed to be independent states. Their sovereignty was recognized by South Ossetian authorities in 2014, Russia and Abkhazian authorities in February 2022, [1] [2] Ba'athist Syria in June 2022 [3] [4] and North Korea in July 2022.
Ukrainian authorities reported that most people in Donetsk and Luhansk did not leave their homes. Some citizens evacuated out of fear of the Russian authorities, rather than allegations of a Ukrainian offensive. [6] Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary to Russian president Vladimir Putin, said that he had no information of what was happening in ...
Meanwhile, Russian and DPR/LPR separatist forces continued to attempt to break through Ukrainian defenses at Izium and the Donetsk-Luhansk frontline. [ 121 ] [ 119 ] [ 122 ] [ 120 ] On 6 May, the ISW described a Ukrainian counteroffensive "along a broad arc" near Kharkiv , reporting that Ukraine had recaptured "several villages," including ...
Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, primarily the People's Militias of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), [nb 1] were pro-Russian paramilitaries in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
On February 20, Putin convened a meeting of the Security Council on live television, [13] and asked ministers to express their views on whether to recognize the two republics in the Donbass. The officials present almost agreed. On February 21, the President of the Donetsk Republic Denis Pushilin and the Lugansk Republic signed a document in the ...
Also during the meeting it is believed that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to use his influence to not allow the DPR and Luhansk People's Republic election to take place on 18 October 2015 and 1 November 2015. [142] On 4 November 2016 both DPR and LPR postponed their local elections, they had set for 6 November 2016, "until further ...