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Apr 15, 2022 · CNN —. 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 ...
Oct 14, 2019 · In the separatist-held areas of the Donbas, about 55% of the respondents expressed a preference for being part of the Ukrainian state. This is very significant for the next round of the ...
Feb 19, 2022 · Russian-backed rebels seized a government building in Donetsk, Ukraine on April 11, 2014. Efrem Lukatsky/AP/FILE. The separatist-controlled areas in Donbas became known as the Luhansk and the ...
Sep 29, 2022 · Russia is set to formally annex four occupied territories in eastern Ukraine, claiming the region as its own more than six months after it first invaded its neighboring country.. Russia announced ...
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 ...
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 ...
Feb 21, 2022 · The conflict in the separatist regions began in 2014, when rebels loyal to Russia seized government buildings in Donetsk and Luhansk, beginning a long trench war with Ukrainian forces. More than ...
