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A Soviet Russian propaganda poster from 1921 that says "The Donbas is the heart of Russia" In April 1918 troops loyal to the Ukrainian People's Republic took control of large parts of the region. [33] For a while, its government bodies operated in the Donbas alongside their Russian Provisional Government equivalents. [34]
The war in Donbas, [c] also known as the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the Donbas region of Ukraine.The war began in April 2014, when a commando unit headed by Russian citizen Igor Girkin seized Sloviansk in Donetsk oblast.
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. They were under the overall control of the Russian Federation. [5] They were also referred to as Russian proxy ...
Russian forces, which have taken about a fifth of Ukraine since invading in February 2022, are advancing in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to take the whole of the Donbas, which is about half the ...
MoD says Kremlin has lost around 200 armoured vehicles during its assaults on Avdiika over the past three weeks
200 Russian armoured vehicles wiped out in Donbas town. Sunday 5 November 2023 12:00, Matt Mathers. About 200 Russian armoured vehicles have been wiped out by Ukraine during battles in a Donbas ...
On 13 April, it was reported that Russia was attempting to assemble a force large enough to outnumber the Ukrainian soldiers in eastern Ukraine by five times, in an attempt to finally win a decisive victory in the Donbas. [97] On 16 April, Russia warned the remaining defenders of Mariupol to surrender; the Ukrainians ignored the demand.
Russia currently controls about 80% of Donbas. Given the speed of recent Russian advances in the east, some Russian war bloggers have raised concern about the army overreaching itself.