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A billboard promoting the "Yes" vote. A poll released by the Kyiv Institute of Sociology, with data gathered from 8–16 April, 41.1% of people in Donetsk were for decentralisation of Ukraine with powers transferred to regions, while letting it remain a unified state, 38.4% for changing Ukraine into federation, 27.5% were in favour of secession from Ukraine to join the Russian Federation, and ...
A July 2016, a published analysis of changes in nighttime light intensity by Tom Coupe (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine), Michał Myck and Mateusz Najsztub (CENEA, Poland) found that the economic activity in the Donbas had dropped 30 to 50% of the pre-war level for the big cities and to only a tenth of the pre-war level for some smaller ...
The timeline for the war in Donbas is divided into the annual periods listed below: Timeline of the war in Donbas (2014) Timeline of the war in Donbas (2015) Timeline of the war in Donbas (2016) Timeline of the war in Donbas (2017) Timeline of the war in Donbas (2018) Timeline of the war in Donbas (2019) Timeline of the war in Donbas (2020)
In 2014, the organization founded the Donetsk People's Republic, which Ukraine's government deems a terrorist organization. [6] The group's leader, Andrei Purgin, was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest. [4] [5] The movement won the 2014 Donbas general elections with 68.53% of the vote and 68 seats. [7]
Prior to its open involvement in 2022, especially during the first peak of the war in Donbas between 2014 and 2015, Russia had previously tried to deny any formal intervention in Ukraine and portrayed Russian forces in the country as either part of local forces [20] or Russian citizens voluntarily fighting in the country.
Girkin believed that the Russian Armed Forces and the Russian state would quickly follow and the Donbas would become a republic within Russia. [10] In Kramatorsk , in the course of a pro-Russian rally, protestors overpowered a police line and occupied the building of the local executive committee, where they hoisted the new-proclaimed republic ...
This article may lend undue weight to the territories the unrests took place. Unrests were only occurring in Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Mariupol, Kharkiv and Odesa.The specific problem is: Talk:2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine#Misleading image in the infobox Please help improve it by rewriting it in a balanced fashion that contextualizes different points of view.
At the 30–31 August 2014 EU summit, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso told other EU leaders that, when he phoned Putin about the war in Donbas on 29 August 2014, during which Barroso said that he held Putin accountable for the military actions of separatists in eastern Ukraine, Putin allegedly replied: "The issue is not this ...