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From April 2014 until September 2022, the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) claimed to be independent states. Their sovereignty was recognised by South Ossetian authorities in 2014, Russia and Abkhazian authorities in February 2022, Syria in June 2022 and North Korea in July 2022.
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The Donetsk People's Republic (Russian: Донецкая Народная...
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Donetsk (UK: / d ɒ n ˈ j ɛ t s k / don-YETSK, US: / d ə n-/;...
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Donetsk, surrounded by slag heaps, is the main city in the mining basin of Donbas. Once named Stalino, it is a gritty industrial hub dominated by mining. It is also one of the main steel-producing centres of Ukraine. It has two million inhabitants. Luhansk, formerly Voroshilovgrad, is also an industrial city of 1.5 million inhabitants. They are gro...
The regions have been locked in armed conflict with Kyiv’s army since a Kremlin-backed armed uprising following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Their independence, proclaimed following referendums, is not recognised by the international community. Kyiv and the West say Russia instigated the eastern uprising, pouring arms and troops across th...
Efforts to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine, laid down in the 2015 Minsk agreements, are deadlocked. Kyiv and the separatists have each accused the other of breaches. A series of ceasefires have fallen through due to repeated violations by belligerents. The political strand of the accords, which foresees a large degree of autonomy for the re...
Each of the two republics is seeking full autonomy from the central government and have their self-proclaimed presidents. Denis Pushilin, elected in 2018 at an election disputed by Kyiv, is the leader of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, while Leonid Pasechnik is the leader of the Luhansk separatist region. Many warlords and separatist offic...
Jun 16, 2022 · The area known as the Donetsk People’s Republic is a breakaway region of Ukraine and was declared a “people’s republic” by pro-Russian separatists in 2014. It is one of two breakaway ...
Feb 22, 2022 · To understand why Luhansk and Donetsk are playing such a central role in the conflict's most recent escalation, it's worth going back to the popular uprising that kicked off the current unrest in ...
Feb 22, 2022 · To understand why Luhansk and Donetsk are playing such a central role in the conflict's most recent escalation, it's worth going back to the popular uprising that kicked off the current unrest in Ukraine, which has been simmering since 2013. The Maidan revolution led to a major political shift in Ukraine
