Donbass in a sentence

He wanted to restore order in Ukraine from Donbass.

It was estimated over 14,000 ethnic Russians of the former Ukraine’s Eastern region of the Donbass were killed in the war.

Let the people in Crimea and the Donbass choose their destinies.

Neo-Nazi militias destroyed temples and killed clergy and believers in Donbass during hostilities against resistance forces.

This was said by the president of the country Donbass belonged to.

Ukrainian soldiers work with "pion" artillery in the northern direction of the Donbass frontline as the war continues in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Without a doubt, the vast majority of the population there and in the Donbass are Russian and feel Russian.

After the 2014 Maidan uprising, the Russian annexation of Crimea, and the outbreak of rebellion in Donbass, the solution that offered the greatest hope for peace in Ukraine was the Minsk II Accords.

If the aim was to help the Donbass front, it will have backfired spectacularly because there is no small or large-scale redeployment of assets from that battlefront - and the reserves they've thrown into this misadventure are kind of needed down there.

It kept its focus on the bigger prize of taking all of the Donbass, which historically was always part of Russia as was Crimea.

Putin Donetsk – alongside the other Donbass territory, Luhansk, and the eastern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia – in September 2022.

That is, after the annexation of Crimea and the start of military actions in Donbass, by the Russians.

The illegal junta then launched the war in the Donbass, killing thousands in the process and here we are today.

The raising of hundreds of thousands of kids into a sort of Bandera-Jugend the basis of the Kiev regime forces that were later used to wage war on the people of Donbass.

Ukraine will never get back Crimea and the Donbass, not to mention other areas they will lose six ways from Sunday.

Andriy Shevchenko, the Ukrainian ambassador to Canada, on Tuesday stressed the importance of the training mission as the conflict in Donbass and elsewhere in the eastern part of the country continues.

He returned to Russia in 2012-13, spending two seasons with Donbass HC and three with St. Petersburg SKA.

Only then can the process of reconciliation with Donbass begin -- not with the criminals who are in power there, but with the residents who don't see themselves as part of Ukraine.

Taylor, with a long history in diplomacy and security issues in that part of Europe, explained why U.S. aid to Ukraine, to resist the Russian military aggression (and military occupation) in two regions of Ukraine (Crimea and Donbass), was so critical.

The Donbass, however, is different.