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Feb 21, 2022 · Why it matters that Russia just recognized Donetsk and Luhansk. The act of recognition is fraught with meaning because the borders claimed by the Russia-backed leaders of the two breakaway regions ...
Feb 14, 2023 · It does not recognize Russia’s claims to Crimea or the other regions unlawfully annexed by Russia. Prior to the 2022 invasion, the United States supported a settlement of the Donbas conflict via ...
Sep 29, 2022 · The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology reported that in late 2021 and early 2022, less than 22% of people in the Donbas region and less than 12% in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia wanted to become ...
Feb 17, 2022 · At the heart of the current Russia-Ukraine crisis is the long-standing conflict in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, divided since 2014 into separate territories controlled by the Ukrainian ...
Feb 22, 2022 · A 2021 survey, however, showed that a majority of people in Kyiv-controlled Donbas want Donetsk and Luhansk to be returned to Ukraine, while more than half in the rebel territories want to join ...
Apr 15, 2022 · The Russian military has announced a new war strategy, focusing “on the main goal, the liberation of the Donbas.” But do ordinary people living in the Donbas actually want what “liberation” probably means: violent conquest, followed by independence or annexation to Russia? Our research just before the February invasion suggests some ...
Mar 30, 2022 · The Donbas region, on the border with Russia, makes up about 9 percent of Ukraine’s landmass. Many of its residents have long felt at least as much of a connection to Russia as to the rest of ...
