Donbas - Wikipedia
The Donbas (UK: / dɒnˈbɑːs /, [3] US: / ˈdɒnbɑːs, dʌnˈbæs /; [4][5] Ukrainian: Донбас [donˈbɑs]; [6]) or Donbass (Russian: Донбасс [dɐnˈbas] [7]) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. [8][9] The majority of the Donbas is occupied by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War. [10][11][12]
Donbas | Map, Region, Ukraine, & War | Britannica
Jan 15, 2025 · Donbas, large mining and industrial region of southeastern Europe, notable for its sizable coal reserves. The industrial area of the Donbas includes much of the Ukrainian oblasti (provinces) of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Donbas: Why Russia is trying to capture eastern Ukraine - BBC
May 26, 2022 · Russian forces are bombarding towns and cities in eastern Ukraine with the declared aim of "liberating" the old industrial heartland known as Donbas.
War in Donbas - Wikipedia
Russian-controlled separatists established two widely unrecognised republics in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. 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.
Why Donbas is at the heart of the Ukraine crisis | CNN
Feb 19, 2022 · Russian President Vladimir Putin has recognized two separatist territories in eastern Ukraine as independent states, ordering the deployment of Russian troops there in a dangerous gambit that...
Donbas: Why Putin wants Ukraine’s ravaged heartland | CNN
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...
In Ukraine's Donbas, ten years of war and Russification - France 24
Apr 8, 2024 · On April 7, 2014, a coup by pro-Russian militants in the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine was the spark that ignited the Donbas war. In the heart of this industrial region, populated at the...
Conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas: A Visual Explainer | Crisis Group
Over the course of eight years, Ukrainian government forces fought Russian-backed separatists for control over much of the two heavily industrialised regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, also known as Donbas.
The battle over the Donbas: why is the region so key to this war?
Apr 28, 2022 · Russia’s main war aim in Ukraine is now ‘the liberation of the Donbas’. Donbas is an abbreviation of the words “Donets Basin”: the region, bordering Russia and named after the Donets River,...
The battle for Donbas: Why Putin launched Russia's offensive on …
Apr 19, 2022 · Russia has launched its military offensive in the Donbas. Why has President Vladimir Putin refocused on eastern Ukraine, and what should we expect? NBC News takes a look.