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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. [20] [21] [6] [22] The Ukrainian military launched an operation against them.
During the build-up to its invasion of Ukraine, Russia falsely accused Ukraine of genocide against Russian speakers in the Donbas region. Ukraine fought a war against Russian proxy forces in the Donbas War from 2014 to 2022. Russia's president Vladimir Putin used this claim of genocide to justify the invasion of Ukraine. There is no evidence to ...
MoD says Kremlin has lost around 200 armoured vehicles during its assaults on Avdiika over the past three weeks
Open source data and battlefield reports indicate that Russian forces in Donbas advanced in August at their fastest rate in about two years, though Ukraine also seized a chunk of the Kursk region ...
Pro-Russian authorities in the two regions in the Donbas, a historical region in easternmost Ukraine, initially declared independence in response to the Maidan Revolution in 2014. They were backed by Russia, which provided them arms and funding, leading to the protracted War in Donbas.
ON THE ROAD TO KYIV, Ukraine — For weeks Ukraine and its western allies have been waiting for Russia’s promised offensive in the Donbas — an eastern region of the country that borders Russia ...
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 ...