Eastern Ukraine in a sentence

During the Obama years, Mr. Biden was put in charge of relations with Ukraine, where he worked with varying degrees of success to crack down on corruption and, after 2014, to end the war in Eastern Ukraine, an area referred to in Ukraine as the Donbas.

Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have accused a British citizen who worked as an international conflict monitor of spying for Ukraine, a Russian news agency said on Friday.

Soldiers from Ukraine’s 24th Separate Assault Battalion at a logistics hub headquarters in Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine on Friday.

The coup in Ukraine noted above was followed in quick succession by Crimea rejoining Russia, and the shooting down over eastern Ukraine of Malaysian Flight MH17.

Ukraine’s interior ministry said the death toll from a Russian missile attack on the city of Lyman, in eastern Ukraine, has increased to eight and 13 people have been injured.

Ukraine's leaders announced the formal start of a counteroffensive last week that has mostly consisted of probing operations along the 600-mile front along southern and eastern Ukraine that has been under Russian control since last year.

Vitalii, a 34-year-old long-range anti-aircraft missile commander, was wounded in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine that has become synonymous with horrific losses in ongoing fighting for both Ukraine and Russia.

Yet the degree of Western support isn’t sufficient to allow Ukraine to force the Russian military out of eastern Ukraine, still less Crimea.

An artillery unit of Ukraine’s 95th Separate Air Assault Brigade firing a howitzer last month at Russian troops trying to capture Toretsk, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.

He said countries now saying Ukraine should negotiate with Russia and end the war are either “ill-informed” or didn’t follow events after 2014, when Russia seized Crimea and backed an armed rebellion in eastern Ukraine.

In eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, Moscow said it captured the town of Artemovo, which is called Zalizne in Ukraine.

On the ground, Ukraine is driving further into Russia's Kursk region following its surprise cross-border incursion three weeks ago, and the Russian army is pushing deeper into the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine's air force said on Saturday that Russia fired four missiles into eastern Ukraine overnight, as well as 12 Shahed drones across the country.

Ukraine's air force said on Saturday that Russia launched 12 Shahed drones overnight, nine of which were shot down, and fired four missiles into eastern Ukraine.

Some of this may be attributed to fatigue from the Russia-Ukraine war, a conflict simmering in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine and now in its sixth year.

Trump made his request to Zelenskiy for an investigation into the Bidens after withholding $391 million in security aid approved by Congress to help Ukraine fight Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine is considered Russia’s biggest foreign policy priority, and Moscow-backed separatists have sliced off two separate parts of this former Soviet appendage: the Crimean Peninsula and a chunk of Eastern Ukraine.

Last weekend, Russia seized three Ukrainian naval vessels and their crews in an incident escalating a tug-of-war that began in 2014 when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and supported separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.

Relations between Russia and Latvia have been frayed by Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimea Peninsula from Ukraine and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.

The United States, the European Union and other Western allies imposed a slew of sanctions against Moscow over its 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine who are fighting the government.