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The Donets is the largest river in eastern Ukraine and the largest tributary of the Don. Its total length is 1,053 km (654 mi) and the basin area is 98,900 km 2 (38,200 sq mi). [6] Most of the river's length 950 km (590 mi) stretches across Ukraine. [7]
A few western Ukraine rivers drain to the north west through Poland to the Baltic Sea, as part of the Western Bug drainage basin. The most notable rivers of Ukraine include the Dnieper, Dniester, Southern Buh, and Siverskyi Donets. The longest river is the Dnieper, the longest tributary is the Dnieper's tributary Desna.
During the battle of Donbas, Russian forces advanced forwards from the 2014 line of contact towards the city of Lyman, as part of a wider attempt to encircle a salient containing more than 40,000 Ukrainian soldiers. [9] The Donets river was the largest natural obstacle standing in front of the Russian offensive.
Sievierodonetsk [a] (UK: / ˌ s ɛ v ər ə d ɒ n ˈ j ɛ t s k / SEV-ər-ə-don-YETSK), also spelled Severodonetsk [b] or Siverskodonetsk, [c] is a city in Luhansk Oblast, eastern Ukraine.It is located to the northeast of the left bank of the Donets river and approximately 110 km (68 mi) to the northwest from the administrative center of the oblast, Luhansk.
The city of Donetsk (the fifth largest city in Ukraine) is considered the unofficial capital of the Donbas. Other large cities (over 100,000 inhabitants) include Mariupol, Luhansk, Makiivka, Horlivka, Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, Alchevsk, Sievierodonetsk, and Lysychansk.
Izium or Izyum [2] [3] (Ukrainian: Ізюм, IPA: ⓘ; Russian: Изюм) is a city on the Donets River in Kharkiv Oblast, eastern Ukraine that serves as the administrative center of Izium Raion and Izium urban hromada. [4] It is about 120 kilometres (75 mi) southeast of the city of Kharkiv, the oblast's administrative center.
Urozhaine is located about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of the Russian-occupied Donetsk city. It lies near the village of Staromaiorske, which Ukrainian soldiers liberated earlier this month.
Vovchansk (Ukrainian: Вовчанськ, pronounced [wou̯ˈt͡ʃɑnʲsʲk]) is a destroyed city in Chuhuiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, northeastern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Vovchansk urban hromada . [3] The Vovcha river, a tributary of the Donets river, runs through the city. Vovchansk had a population of 17,459 (2022 estimate). [4]