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 …

Russian-controlled separatists established two widely unrecognised republics in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The war in Donbas, [c] or the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo …

Mar 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 …

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.

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 …

Apr 15, 2022 · Donbas blankets much of eastern Ukraine, and has been the front line of the country’s conflict with Moscow since 2014. But now its people, already scarred by eight years …

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.

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 …

Oct 24, 2019 · The war in the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas has killed over 13,000 people, displaced millions, and led to the worst rupture in relations between the …

Apr 1, 2022 · Russian forces are bombarding towns and cities in eastern Ukraine with the declared aim of "liberating" the old industrial heartland known as Donbas.