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The Donbas (UK: / d ɒ n ˈ b ɑː s /, US: / ˈ d ɒ n b ɑː s, d ʌ n ˈ b æ s /; Ukrainian: Донба́с;) or Donbass (Russian: Донба́сс) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. Parts of the Donbas are occupied by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The war in Donbas, [c] or 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] [22] [23] The Ukrainian military launched an operation against them.
May 26, 2022 · Donbas is predominantly Russian-speaking and after Russia seized Crimea in 2014, its proxy forces captured more than a third of Ukraine's east in a war that never came to an end. The Russian ...
Apr 15, 2022 · Fighting in Ukraine has rounded on Donbas, a sprawling and beleaguered heartland region that has suffered years of conflict and now serves as the bloody stage on which Russia’s war could be...
Apr 20, 2022 · KHARKIV, Ukraine — Russia plunged into a new chapter of the Ukraine war on Tuesday, intent on capturing the eastern part of the country and crushing Ukrainian defenses without the same blunders ...
Apr 12, 2022 · Russia will struggle to make significant advances while Ukraine continues to have effective air defences and artillery. Both sides have, until now, had similar levels of forces in the region ...
Apr 19, 2022 · 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 ...
Apr 25, 2022 · Ukraine: Facing the Russian Army on the front line in Donbas. 25 April 2022. By Jonathan Beale, Defence correspondent, Eastern Ukraine. BBC. Lt Denys Gordeev and his men are facing the full force...
Apr 18, 2022 · A Russian missile attack killed at least seven people in Lviv, the first reported war deaths in the western Ukrainian city. Moscow’s mayor warned that 200,000 jobs were at risk in the city ...
Jun 11, 2024 · The industrial economy of the Donbas began to expand dramatically after the completion in 1886 of a railway to the iron ore mines of Kryvyy Rih, and, by the beginning of World War I, the Donets Basin had developed into the principal iron- and steel-producing region of the Russian Empire.
