| 单词 | Donbas |
| 例句 | The film, which was presented in competition at Venice last year, tells the story of a Ukrainian surgeon who is taken prisoner by Russia during the Donbas conflict in eastern Ukraine. Cultural backlash intensifies against Russia over invasion 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z This acceleration of time had a dark side: even by Stalinist standards, Kuromiya writes, “the terror of the 1930s in the Donbas was extraordinary.” The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s located in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z We paid closest attention to four in the Donbas: the industrial, largely Russian-speaking region of eastern Ukraine where a war has been ongoing since 2014. When Cultural Heritage Becomes a Battlefront 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z With Russian forces pressing into the Luhansk region, one of the two provinces of the Donbas in Eastern Ukraine, Kozlov said it didn’t matter which part of the country Russia invaded. Kyiv City Ballet to Make Its First Tour of the United States in Fall 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Rarely do we get the details of what happened to these women in the Donbas; Belorusets smartly conveys the invisibility of their trauma by making it likewise invisible to readers. The Scars of Ukraine’s War, Illuminated in Fiction 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z “They aim at the most important things: museums, libraries, the things on which we build our authenticity,” said Svitlana Moiseeva, a librarian we spoke to who had fled west from the Donbas. When Cultural Heritage Becomes a Battlefront 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Located deep in southeastern Ukraine along the Russian border, the Donbas is a post-industrial mining region known for its territorial allegiance. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z But it features a recent satellite image of battle-ravaged areas of the Donbas, overlaid on one of Sai’s earlier paintings on aluminum, then attacked with a metal grinder to simulate the craters left behind. In Miami, a Ukrainian Art Show Becomes Unintentionally Timely 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The Venice Film Festival, meanwhile, said it was organizing free screenings of the film “Reflection,” about the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, as a sign of solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Cultural backlash intensifies against Russia over invasion 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The movie premiered last year, before Russia attacked Ukraine in February, and it begins in November 2014, against the backdrop of fighting by Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region. ‘Reflection’ Review: Through a Looking Glass of Horrors 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z What is so striking about Herman’s experiences amid the savagery of the Donbas is the absence of duplicity. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z For all its violence, Monastyrskyi insists, “the Donbas is full of joy and mercy—and empathy.” The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Kurkov’s novel “Grey Bees,” which was recently translated and published in English, is set in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, against the backdrop of a long-simmering conflict between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces. An urgent mission for literary translators: Bringing Ukrainian voices to the West 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z A few hours later, Russia initiated a full-scale invasion of Ukraine that began in the eastern territory of Donbas. AnnaLynne McCord says she identifies with Putin "becoming a dictator" while defending her viral poem 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z In this respect, the Donbas is like all of Ukraine, only more so. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z In 2014, Russia threw its weight behind an insurgency in the mostly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine region known as Donbas, where Russia-backed rebels seized government buildings and proclaimed the creation of “people’s republics.” Cultural backlash intensifies against Russia over invasion 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The Donbas is where the rough kids are—it’s where the rough kids stayed. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z “Everyone knows if you use drugs in the trenches, of course, the dugout is small,” a 29-year-old soldier from Siberia assigned to a unit fighting near Lugansk in the disputed Donbas region told Vertska. Drug use among Russian soldiers in Ukraine increasingly common: Reports 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the UK defence intelligence said in its latest report on Saturday that Russia "has likely lost around 200 armoured vehicles during its assaults on the Donbas town of Avdiivka" in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine war: Zelensky says Israel-Gaza conflict taking focus away from fighting 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z While Western diplomats speak out about casualties and destruction in Ukraine, Nebenzia added, they never mention anything about casualties and destruction in the eastern Donbas region, which Russia illegally annexed in October 2022. More than 40% of Ukrainians need humanitarian help under horrendous war conditions, UN says 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z It was the fifth straight day of assaults on the town in Ukraine's industrial heartland of Donbas, focal point of Moscow's 19-month-old invasion of its neighbour. New Russian strikes on Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, top general says fighting further north has worsened 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z In Avdiivka, known for its large coking plant in Ukraine's Donbas industrial heartland, officials said the Russian assaults had left the already-gutted city in flames. Russian forces pound Avdiivka for fourth straight day 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z Avdiivka is described as a gateway to the city of Donetsk, the capital of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Ukraine war: Russia attacks Avdiivka stronghold in eastern Ukraine 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Most attention in the Russian military's push through the eastern Donbas region has focused for many months on the city of Bakhmut, captured by Moscow troops in May. Russian forces launch big push on key eastern Ukraine city 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Robert Fico, meanwhile, recently told a rally the war had started in 2014 when "Ukrainian Nazis and fascists started murdering the Russian population of Donbas." Ukraine war: Slovakia's Robert Fico eyes comeback in Saturday's election 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Both sides started the year with lofty ambitions: Russia wanted to capture the eastern Donbas region, while Ukraine aimed to split Russian forces with an attack in the south. Who’s gaining ground in Ukraine? This year, No one 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z "Russia is saving Ukraine," she replies, "and saving the Donbas." Russians queue up to see Barbie film despite sanctions 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z At the other, there's a cross to remember those killed in Ukraine since 2014, when fighting broke out in the south-eastern Donbas region. Ukraine war: Cannabis in focus for veterans treatment 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z We spent two weeks in August with the 24th, which now serves in the Donbas, that old centre of smokestack industries in the east, occupying a section of the front between Bakhmut and Horlivka. Ukraine: The soldiers who can’t leave the front line until the war is over 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z These areas – Donetsk and Luhansk, known together as “Donbas” – have strong ties to Russia. Will Russia Invade Ukraine? Talks Could Lower Tensions 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Russia aimed to capture the entirety of the Donbas, but it only inched forward. Who’s gaining ground in Ukraine? This year, No one 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z These areas – Donetsk and Luhansk, known together as “Donbas” – have strong ties to Russia. Russia ‘Recognizes’ Areas of Ukraine, Sends Soldiers 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Luhansk and Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, make up the Donbas regions. Russia Claims Four Large Areas of Ukraine 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z In a wooded area on the front lines of the Donbas region, Ukrainian soldiers came out of concealment to shell Russian forces. Load. Fire. Get to Cover. 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z There has been fighting in and near Donbas since 2014, with Russia giving military support to the rebels. Will Russia Invade Ukraine? Talks Could Lower Tensions 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Kostiantyn and Diana are originally from the eastern city of Donetsk, in the Donbas region. Ukraine war: Curfews and closures mark a Friday night in Kyiv 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z There has been fighting in and near Donbas since 2014, with Russia giving military support to the rebels. Russia ‘Recognizes’ Areas of Ukraine, Sends Soldiers 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z They have been fighting on Russia's behalf in Ukraine, notably in the Donbas, Syria and several countries in Africa. Is Wagner still a threat to global security? 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Russian forces had seized the Crimea peninsula and much of Ukraine's Donbas region in 2014. Ukraine war: US sees 'notable progress' by Ukraine army in south 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Many people who live in the Donbas area have evacuated to Russia. Will Russia Invade Ukraine? Talks Could Lower Tensions 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Moscow's stated war aim is the "liberation" of Donbas, which is made up of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Russia’s kamikaze drones raining down on Ukraine's east 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Many military experts believe that taking control of the Donbas area is only a first step for Russia. Russia ‘Recognizes’ Areas of Ukraine, Sends Soldiers 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z He is a veteran of the fight in Donbas, he's been fighting Russia and its proxies since 2014. ‘Dying by the dozens every day’ - Ukraine losses climb 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z As all this was unfolding in 2014, Putin launched his initial invasion of Ukraine, including the illegal annexation of Crimea and the incursion into the Donbas region. In midst of war, Ukraine celebrates its Independence Day | Opinion 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Many people who live in the Donbas area have evacuated to Russia. Will Russia Invade Ukraine? Talks Could Lower Tensions 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Speaker has been fighting Russia and its proxies for years - starting in Donbas in 2014. Russia’s kamikaze drones raining down on Ukraine's east 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Russian news sources have carried false information for weeks, trying to make it look like Ukraine was attacking people in the Donbas regions. Russia ‘Recognizes’ Areas of Ukraine, Sends Soldiers 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z In 2014, when Russia unlawfully annexed Crimea and armed conflict erupted in Ukraine’s Donbas region, Perepechenko yearned to be on the front lines helping in some way. A camp teaches Ukrainian soldiers who were blinded in combat to navigate the world again 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z The occupied territory includes most of Ukraine's coast line and parts of its industrial heartland, the Donbas. Ukraine reports fierce fighting, 'some success' in counteroffensive 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z For example, it describes Russia's initial attack on Ukraine in 2014 as a popular uprising of eastern Donbas residents who "wanted to stay Russian" and who were joined by "volunteers" from Russia. Russia’s new schoolbook aims to justify war on Ukraine 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z In 2014 when Russia first attacked Ukraine, annexing Crimea and invading Donbas, she left her job as a brand manager and joined one of the first volunteer battalions - along with thousands of other Ukrainians. 'It's like playing with death' - Ukraine's female front line soldiers 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Recognizing the Donbas regions as countries has completely broken agreements made in 2014 to end fighting in the area. Russia ‘Recognizes’ Areas of Ukraine, Sends Soldiers 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z It came amid Ukraine’s major counteroffensive operation in the disputed Donbas region of Ukraine. Armed drones attack Moscow for third time in a week; one injured 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z Similarly, about 60 miles to the south, they have waged repeated battles in the direction of Lyman, which Ukraine recaptured in October, trying to gain a strategic foothold for further advances into the Donbas. ‘They Shoot Without Stopping:’ Where Russia Is on the Attack in Ukraine 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z It makes no mention of the military hardware and personnel Russia sent to Donbas at the time or over the next eight years. Russia’s new schoolbook aims to justify war on Ukraine 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z The tin theory - malleable but resilient - was first sketched out for me, more than two weeks ago, by a weary medic I met at a field hospital close to the near-obliterated Donbas town of Bakhmut. Ukraine war: Front line troops discuss counter-offensive 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z In 2014, Russia had seized the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine, and proxy forces backed by Moscow started a separatist war in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region — which Russia now claims as its own. Prigozhin Is Said to Be in Russia, as Wagner Mystery Deepens 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z All this was captured, live, last week, by a Ukrainian army drone hovering overhead on the frontlines south of the Donbas city of Bakhmut. Ukraine war: The lethal minefields holding up Kyiv's counter-offensive 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Lieutenant Colonel Oleh noted that the Kremlin has never given up its ambition of conquering the entire eastern Donbas region. ‘They Shoot Without Stopping:’ Where Russia Is on the Attack in Ukraine 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z If Ukraine had joined the alliance and then "provoked a conflict in Crimea or Donbas", the textbook says, Russia would have been forced to wage war against the whole of the Nato alliance. Russia’s new schoolbook aims to justify war on Ukraine 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z A return to the earlier agreed-upon Minsk II agreement – a neutral Ukraine and a federal relationship with the Donbas – seems impossible, though it would probably be acceptable to Moscow, if not to Kyiv. Expert: Putin’s Ukraine war keeps yielding dividends – but not for him 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z An agreement reached in 2015 in Minsk laid out steps — largely ignored in the following years — that were supposed to produce a lasting peace, and the fighting in Donbas, while diminished, did not stop. Prigozhin Is Said to Be in Russia, as Wagner Mystery Deepens 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Ukrainian forces are "highly likely" to have recaptured land in the country's eastern Donbas region occupied by Russia since 2014, the UK says. Ukraine likely to have retaken land occupied by Russia since 2014, UK's MoD says 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The Cyborg legend goes back to 2014, when longstanding tensions between Russia and Ukraine suddenly exploded in this eastern region, the Donbas, a vast, mineral-rich area on the border with Russia. Every Block Is Another Battle: Ukraine’s Latest Eastern Stand 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z In 2014, he insisted that he knew nothing of the Russian troops without insignia active in annexing Crimea and moving into the eastern Ukrainian Donbas region. Fear and Mayhem as Russia’s War Comes Home 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Pro-Russian Telegram channels in the Donbas were full of excited chatter about Ukraine's latest moves, much of it laced with scorn. Ukraine's counter-offensive against Russia under way 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z "I always believed that we were right, that our government is right taking Luhansk, the Donbas region, our Russian people under its wing," she said. Frayed nerves and uprooted lives in Russian city close to Ukraine border 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z In order for this counter-offensive to succeed, it needs to break Russia's stranglehold over a swathe of territory it seized last year that connects Crimea to Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Nova Khakovka: Who benefits from breaching the dam? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The 79th Brigade was hunkered down in an airport in Donetsk, the biggest city in the Donbas, trying to fight off an onslaught by separatist proxy forces and Russian troops backing them. Every Block Is Another Battle: Ukraine’s Latest Eastern Stand 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Elsewhere across the Donbas, Russian forces are reinforcing their defensive positions in preparation for a major Ukrainian counteroffensive. Kremlin: Putin open to peace talks to end Ukraine war, but only if West offers concessions 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Russia had envisioned the capture of Bakhmut as partial fulfillment of its ambition to seize control of the eastern Donbas region, Ukraine’s industrial heartland. Ukraine keeps up pressure following Russian declaration of victory in Bakhmut 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z But Moscow has said capturing it would be a stepping stone to advance deeper into the industrial region of Donbas, which it claims to have annexed from Ukraine. Clashes near Bakhmut continue despite easing, Ukraine's military says 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Following those critiques, DeSantis said his earlier comments referenced ongoing fighting in the eastern Donbas region, as well as Russia’s 2014 seizure of Crimea. Haley says US forces ‘need to align’ with countries including Russia; campaign says she misspoke 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Tatarsky, a native of eastern Ukraine's Donbas whose real name was Maxim Fomin, had been addressing an event in the cafe when the blast occurred. Russia says it seeking third suspect over war blogger killing 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z But even if Ukraine finds some success in its second major counteroffensive, Moscow appears unwilling to budge from its position that any peace deal include recognition of Russian control over several provinces in the Donbas. Kremlin: Putin open to peace talks to end Ukraine war, but only if West offers concessions 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Russia has long accused the West of ignoring what it says is Ukrainian persecution of Russian language speakers in the eastern Donbas region and elsewhere. Russia's Lavrov accuses West of 'supporting genocide' in Ukraine 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Moscow says capturing Bakhmut opens the way to advances in the eastern region known as the Donbas. Russia's Wagner army starts handing Bakhmut over to regular troops 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Bakhmut emerged as one of Moscow’s primary targets in eastern Ukraine, with Russian officials calling it a necessary prize in the campaign to seize the entire region known as the Donbas. What Does Russia’s Success in Bakhmut Mean for the War in Ukraine? 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z But what comes next for Russia, which has said it aims to capture the entire eastern Donbas region, is unclear. What’s Next for Russia After Spilling So Much Blood for Bakhmut? 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z “It’s a mirror of the situation created by Russia in Crimea and Donbas” in 2014, when Russia sent in soldiers with unmarked uniforms and the Kremlin denied any affiliation with the fighters, Mr. Karin said. Anti-Kremlin Fighters Take War to Russian Territory for a Second Day 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Across the eastern Donbas region — a constellation of industrial cities and mining towns dotting the steppe — Russia has repeatedly reduced towns and cities to rubble before claiming the ruins. The Battle for Bakhmut, in Photos 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Moscow says capturing Bakhmut opens the way to further advances in the eastern industrial region known as the Donbas bordering Russia. Ukraine says fighting decreases in Bakhmut, shelling continues around it 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Russia says capturing Bakhmut opens the way to further advances in the eastern industrial region known as the Donbas. Russia maintains 'counter-terrorism operation' in Belgorod - governor 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The city of Bakhmut has for months been the center of the fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and the site of one of the longest and deadliest battles of the war. Key events in the battle for Bakhmut 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z But controlling it would not necessarily help Russia toward its larger stated goal of conquering the eastern Donbas region. Your Monday Briefing: The G7 Wraps 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z The city has for months been the center of the fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The key events in the battle for Bakhmut, the war’s longest-running sustained fight. 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z As both sides prepare for the next phase of the fighting, Russia’s goal of taking the whole of the Donbas seems no closer than it had months ago, and perhaps is further away. ‘Pyrrhic Victory’: Russians Claim Bakhmut Amid a Staggering Toll 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The provinces of Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk make up the Donbas, Ukraine’s industrial heartland where a separatist uprising began in 2014 and which Moscow illegally annexed in September. Zelenskyy says ‘Bakhmut is only in our hearts’ after Russia claims control of Ukrainian city 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had made it clear his forces were going to capture Bakhmut, and then take aim at the entirety of the mineral-rich Donbas region in which it resides. Why Bakhmut? It’s a Question as Old as War. 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Moscow has consistently portrayed Bakhmut as a vital strategic objective towards its aim of securing control over the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine it claims to have annexed last year. Ukraine says it advances on Bakhmut's flanks to entrap Russians 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The city of Bakhmut has for months been the center of the fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, and the site of one of the longest and deadliest battles of the war. The key events in the battle for Bakhmut, the war’s longest-running sustained fight. 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z One document among the leaked Pentagon materials that were discovered circulating online last month describes Russia’s campaign in the Donbas as “headed toward attrition.” ‘Pyrrhic Victory’: Russians Claim Bakhmut Amid a Staggering Toll 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z After Russia switched its focus to the Donbas following a botched attempt to seize Kyiv early in the February 2022 invasion, Moscow’s troops tried to take Bakhmut in August but were pushed back. Zelenskyy denies Ukrainian city of Bakhmut occupied by Russian forces 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z The battle for the small city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region has become the longest and bloodiest of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. U.S.'s Blinken speaks with Burhan about talks to reach ceasefire in Sudan 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z The battle for the small city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region has become the longest and bloodiest of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Sinn Fein sweep past unionist rivals again in Northern Ireland local elections 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z The battle for the small city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region has become the longest and bloodiest of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Martin Amis, British writer of dark comedic novels, dies at 73, New York Times reports 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Moscow has long claimed that capturing Bakhmut would be a stepping stone towards advancing deeper into the Donbas region it claims to have annexed from Ukraine. Russia's Wagner claims Bakhmut; Kyiv says situation critical 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Ukraine says it has made small advances this week on the flanks of the city in the industrial Donbas region even as Russia's Wagner private army has inched closer to capturing the city itself. Ukraine says it repels attacks as Russia tries to retake land near Bakhmut 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z Moscow sees Bakhmut, a city of about 70,000 before the war, as a potential stepping stone towards capturing the rest of the eastern industrial Donbas region bordering Russia. Russian mercenary boss accuses regular army of leaving Bakhmut's flanks exposed 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Mariupol was in a strategic location for the Russian invasion, linking as it does Crimea and Donbas, and the brutal battle for its control lasted more than 80 days. Ukraine: The Mariupol steel workers longing for home 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Moscow sees Bakhmut, a city of about 70,000 before Russia's invasion, as a stepping stone towards capturing the rest of the eastern industrial Donbas region bordering Russia. Ukraine reports new advances near eastern city of Bakhmut 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Bakhmut has been the scene of some of the heaviest fighting between Ukraine and Russia as part of the larger battle for the disputed Donbas region. U.S. military veteran killed after Russian artillery hits building in Bakhmut 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Moscow sees Bakhmut, a city of about 70,000 before Russia's full-scale invasion nearly 15 months ago, as a stepping stone towards capturing the rest of the eastern Donbas region. Ukraine reports gains around Bakhmut, battles continue 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z He called on residents of the small city in the industrial Donbas region to evacuate as fast as possible. Four killed in Russian attack on hospital in city of Avdiivka - Ukraine 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Ukraine's Suspilne Donbas television station reported explosions in the city, quoting residents, who said the blasts occurred in a central district near a factory. Russian-installed officials say Ukraine missiles hit Luhansk city 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Some analysts have predicted that the counteroffensive would be focused on the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of southern Ukraine, not in the eastern Donbas region where the heaviest fighting has been taking place for months. Zelensky, Citing Equipment Gaps, Says It’s Too Soon for Counteroffensive 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z High stakes: The 11-month battle for Bakhmut, in the eastern Donbas region, has taken on a symbolic significance for both sides that goes far beyond the city’s strategic value. Your Thursday Briefing: Unrest in Pakistan 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z More ordinary people are getting killed here than anywhere else except perhaps along the front line in the eastern Donbas region, according to daily reports from the Ukrainian military. ‘Death Is Everywhere’ in a Once-Jubilant Ukrainian City 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z "You no longer feel the fear that you had at the beginning," added Artem, who has been based in the eastern Donbas region for some six months. Fear recedes for Ukraine's volunteers, for whom war is 'just a job' 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z But Peskov told reporters: "First, Germany doesn't have a way to check. Second, the weapons supplied by Germany to the Kyiv regime are already firing at Russian territory, because the Donbas is a Russian region." Kremlin says German involvement in Ukraine conflict is growing due to arms supplies 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z Bakhmut is viewed as a springboard for President Vladimir V. Putin’s stated aim of seizing the entire Donbas, while for Ukraine it has become a symbol of resistance. Battlefield Update: Russia and Ukraine each claim gains in Bakhmut. 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z In a wooden box was a gilded bust of Tatarsky portrayed as a coal miner — a tribute to his native Donbas, the Ukrainian coal-mining region that Russia has long been trying to capture. The rise and violent demise of pro-Russian war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z In preparation for the assault, Russian troops have largely stopped any offensive operations and have instead begun to fortify their defenses in the Donbas and surrounding areas. ‘We’re ready’: Ukraine warns Russia, says counteroffensive will soon begin 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Azov rose to prominence after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s illegal seizure of Crimea in 2014, as Ukraine’s ill-equipped military struggled to fight back against Russian-backed separatists in the eastern Donbas region. Ukraine’s Azov Brigade races to rebuild ahead of fateful fight 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The two regions of eastern Ukraine collectively known as the Donbas have been the focus of fighting between Ukraine and Russian or Russian-backed forces since 2014. Kremlin says German involvement in Ukraine conflict is growing due to arms supplies 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z On the contrary, she claimed, Ukrainian soldiers were murdering the Russian-speaking inhabitants of Donbas. Czech teacher on trial over Ukraine war misinformation 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Three weeks before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Tatarsky returned to Donbas and embedded alongside Russian forces, emerging as a prominent, pro-Kremlin voice. The rise and violent demise of pro-Russian war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z The hope is that the offensive will push Russian forces further back in the disputed Donbas region and perhaps even force them out of the territory entirely. ‘We’re ready’: Ukraine warns Russia, says counteroffensive will soon begin 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Salt was among the first resources that made the eastern Donbas region famous for its mineral wealth. A Symbol of Loss in Almost Every Ukrainian Kitchen 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said German-supplied weapons were already being used in the Donbas region, which Russia has declared its own, a step Ukraine and the West have dismissed as illegal. Kremlin says German involvement in Ukraine conflict is growing due to arms supplies 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z She alleged Ukraine had been running a murderous campaign of terror in Donbas since 2014, a regular theme of Russian propaganda. Czech teacher on trial over Ukraine war misinformation 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z U.S. military officials have said retaking Crimea would be an uphill climb for the Ukrainian military, even if its offensive succeeds in pushing Russian troops out of the Donbas. ‘A game of time’: Clock ticking on Ukraine’s spring offensive 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Mr Medvedev claims to have witnessed a host of war crimes - including seeing "deserters being executed" by the Wagner group's internal security service - while fighting in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Andrey Medvedev: Wagner deserter admits Norway bar brawl 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Neither side has been able to decisively defeat the other in the ruins of Bakhmut or elsewhere in Donbas, which is why one document predicted that the war was "likely heading toward a stalemate." Leaked papers reveal reality behind Ukraine war propaganda — and it's grim 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z For Russia’s part, President Vladimir V. Putin has made the seizure of the entire Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine, a priority for Moscow’s forces. Russia Pounds Cities Across the Country, Ukraine Says. 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z There has been talk for some weeks of Ukraine launching a spring offensive against Russian forces, whose own offensive in the eastern Donbas region has largely stalled. Ukraine in Nato: Orban casts doubt on long-term membership plan 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Inside the White House and Pentagon, there is a wait-and-see approach with respect to Ukraine’s offensive push in the Donbas, an area which remains the epicenter of the war. ‘A game of time’: Clock ticking on Ukraine’s spring offensive 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Another, dated Feb. 22, said the Ukrainians were “headed towards a stalemate” in taking back the eastern Donbas region. Pentagon documents leak will embolden Putin | Trudy Rubin 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z The eastern Donbas was already the most pro-Russian region in Ukraine, close geographically to Russia and featuring families with ties to both countries. ‘Our Own Guys Are Shelling Us’: How Russian Propaganda Plagues Ukraine 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z In Donbas, heavy fighting continues across a wide swath of already ravaged territory. Russia Pounds Cities Across the Country, Ukraine Says. 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Most of the casualties occurred in the Donbas, the eastern region made up of Luhansk and Donetsk provinces, the office said. Putin, Zelenskyy rally troops with war poised for new phase 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z After months of heavy casualties and embarrassing battlefield setbacks, observers say that Moscow has now ordered its military commanders to focus on defensive positions throughout the Donbas and surrounding areas. ‘A game of time’: Clock ticking on Ukraine’s spring offensive 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z A similar lack of certainty is visible in a summary of the battle for the Donbas, dated 22 February. Ukraine war: As the dust settles, did the US leaks reveal anything important? 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Another campaign claimed that Ukraine’s Azov Brigade was acting punitively in the country’s eastern Donbas region. Russians boasted that just 1% of fake social profiles are caught, leak shows 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z The government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has insisted that any peace deal include the full return of all Ukrainian lands now occupied by Russia in the eastern Donbas region and in Crimea. Russian mercenary chief: Declare victory in Ukraine and get out 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z The Russians have lost thousands of soldiers in an attempt to seize Bakhmut and control the surrounding Donbas region. Opinion | The leaks painted a grim picture of the Ukraine war. Here’s the current reality. 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z A similar situation played out in Mariupol in the south, Lee said, and in the eastern Donbas region, where fighting often took place in wooded areas where regular Russian motorized rifle units had difficulty operating. Russia’s commando units gutted by Ukraine war, U.S. leak shows 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z At least five people - including a two-year-old child - have been killed in Russian shelling of Slovyansk in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Ukraine war: Civilians killed in Russian strike on Ukraine homes 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Moscow says it would open a route to capturing more territory in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, a major war aim. Ukraine forces pull back as Russia mounts 're-energised' Bakhmut assault, UK says 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Among the pages of photographed documents, one shows a US assessment of Russia's "grinding campaign of attrition" in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Ukraine war: Pentagon leaks reveal Russian infighting over death toll 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z To break out of the Donbas stalemate, Zelensky has been planning a counteroffensive that would use new tanks and other mobile vehicles, protected by air-defense equipment and backed by recently recruited and trained troops. Opinion | The leaks painted a grim picture of the Ukraine war. Here’s the current reality. 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z One Feb. 23, 2023 assessment, titled "Battle for the Donbas Region Likely Heading for a Stalemate Throughout 2023", says Russia is unlikely to be able to take that part of east Ukraine. Ukraine war, already with up to 354,000 casualties, likely to last past 2023 - U.S. documents 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z But the staff swept up the shattered glass, shoveled away the debris and carried on working, determined to stay in Kramatorsk, in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, to help those in need. As Ukraine war drags on, civilians’ mental health needs rise 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z The majority of the deaths were recorded in Ukrainian-controlled territory under attack by Russian invading forces, but some were also in areas in the disputed Donbas region controlled by Russian forces and pro-Russian separatists. U.K. officials: Russian airborne units getting heavy flamethrowers for Ukraine fight 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z For instance, they predict that neither Russia nor Ukraine will make progress this year in breaking the stalemate in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbas. The Military’s Leaked Secrets 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Since then, Russia’s military has sought to oust Ukraine’s troops from those areas, especially Luhansk and Donetsk provinces, which make up the industrial region known as the Donbas. Ukraine attacks continue amid Easter pleas for peace 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z "Russia's grinding campaign of attrition in the Donbas region is likely heading toward a stalemate, thwarting Moscow's goal to capture the entire region in 2023," reads the assessment above a classified map of Russian positions. Ukraine war, already with up to 354,000 casualties, likely to last past 2023 - U.S. documents 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z She added that Russia had “taken in” more than 5 million people from Ukraine and Donbas regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, which were illegally annexed by Russia last year, 700,000 of them children. Russia’s U.N. session amplifies disinformation on Ukraine child abductions 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Subsequent action has seen the regiment moving around all the major flashpoints - Izyum in the early summer, Kherson later on, and now back to Donbas. The cost of the Ukraine war for one Russian regiment 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z After failing to capture Kyiv in the initial weeks of the fighting, Russia has focused its military efforts on gaining control of Ukraine’s industrial heartland of the Donbas that includes the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces. Putin: West helped Ukraine mount acts of sabotage 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Mission said Wednesday’s meeting is aimed at providing “objective information” about children in conflict areas in eastern Donbas, which includes Donetsk, and Russian measures to evacuate them from danger. Russia invites children’s official sought by ICC to brief UN 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Fu said that China had not provided military assistance to Russia, nor recognized its efforts to annex Ukrainian territories, including Crimea and the Donbas. China’s Ambassador to the E.U. Tries to Distance Beijing From Moscow 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z “They were not evacuated, but were first transferred to a hospital” in Donetsk in Donbas. Russia’s U.N. session amplifies disinformation on Ukraine child abductions 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z “These children know who has been shooting at them for the last eight years,” Lvova-Belova said, referring to Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region who have battled against pro-Russian forces there since 2014. Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights seeks to portray war crimes accusations as false 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z “These children know who has been shooting at them for the last eight years,” Ms. Lvova-Belova said, referring to Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region who have battled against pro-Russian forces there since 2014. Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights seeks to portray war crimes accusations as false. 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a fierce battle still rages in the eastern city of Bakhmut, which is at the heart of a Russian campaign to seize all of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. A new $2.6 billion package of U.S. military aid to Ukraine includes $500 million for immediate supplies. 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Reporting from the ruins of a power station in Donbas in July 2022, he unexpectedly said that the site had been "liberated" by Wagner. Ukraine war: Who are Russia's war bloggers and why are they popular? 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Tatarsky was born in Makiivka in eastern Ukraine, in the Donbas region near Russia where loyalties to the two countries are often divided within communities and even families. Assassinated Pro-War Blogger Was Part of a Radical Russian Movement 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z The plan was for him to launch a general winter offensive with the aim of extending Russian control over the whole of the disputed Donbas region. Gerasimov, the Russian commander in Ukraine, on the hot seat as campaign stalls 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Evidence is mounting that Moscow has failed to make much progress in the Donbas of eastern Ukraine, despite months of fighting in the industrial and agricultural region close to the Russian border. Russia’s assault in eastern Ukraine appears stalled. 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Bakhmut, an industrial city with a prewar population of around 70,000, is at the heart of a Russian campaign to seize all of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Wagner claims ‘legal’ control of Bakhmut, while Ukraine says it is still fighting. 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Born in the Donbas, Ukraine’s industrial heartland, Tatarsky worked as a coal miner before starting a furniture business. Suspect in Russian military blogger’s killing on wanted list 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z For months, Moscow’s forces have failed to make much progress toward Mr. Putin’s goal of seizing the entire Donbas, an important industrial, mining and agricultural region. Assassinated Pro-War Blogger Was Part of a Radical Russian Movement 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z “On several axes across the Donbas front, Russian forces have made only marginal gains at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties.” Gerasimov, the Russian commander in Ukraine, on the hot seat as campaign stalls 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z “The winter campaign in the Donbas is over,” said Igor Girkin, a former Russian intelligence officer who led a military intervention in eastern Ukraine and now blogs about military affairs. Russia’s assault in eastern Ukraine appears stalled. 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Fomin is a former fighter with the separatist Donbas militia, The Washington Post has reported. Russian blogger who pushed for Ukraine war dies in cafe explosion 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Russian troops are trying to capture the key Ukrainian stronghold of Bakhmut as part of their efforts to take all of Donetsk province, which is part of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland of the Donbas. Ukrainian official offers plan for a Crimea without Russia 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z In mid-July, she posted on the Russian social network VKontakte that 108 children of the Donbas region would receive citizenship that week. The Children’s Rights Advocate Accused of Russian War Crimes 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z The Ukrainian stronghold in the Donbas region in Ukraine’s east has been the focus of a ferocious battle that has dragged on for eight months. Ukraine asks court to put Orthodox leader under house arrest 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z The Ukrainian stronghold in the eastern Donbas region has been the focus of a ferocious battle that has dragged on for eight months in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine asks court to put Orthodox leader under house arrest 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z After Russian forces failed to capture the Ukrainian capital Kyiv a year ago, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia made the capture of the Donbas his military’s primary objective. Russia Pounds Eastern Ukraine but Hasn’t Secured Decisive Breakthrough in Offensive 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Kremlin officials have described it as a necessary prize in the campaign to seize Ukraine’s Donbas region. Ukrainians Directing Soldiers From a Hidden Hub See Bakhmut Going Their Way 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The sequence also includes the separatist, Russian-aligned portions of the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, denoted by the dotted line within a region known as the Donbas. Ukraine Goes Dark: Images From Space Drive Home the Nation’s Anguish 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Apart from Melitopol, the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine is also viewed as a possible avenue of attack. Soldiers Massing Near Ukrainian Nuclear Plant, U.N. Official Warns 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z “Gerasimov’s tenure has been characterized by an effort to launch a general winter offensive with the aim of extending Russian control over the whole of the Donbas region,” the British ministry said on Twitter. Ukraine asks court to put Orthodox leader under house arrest 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z He later added ominously that, if Ukraine entered NATO, it would lose Crimea, its sole Russian-majority province, and the Donbas, its Russophone east. The war of surprises in Ukraine: Could there be one surprise too many? 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Defending the small city in the industrialised Donbas region was a military necessity, Syrskyi said, praising Ukrainian resilience in "extremely difficult conditions". Zelenskiy to IAEA: Russia holds nuclear plant hostage 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z In the western Donbas region, that tactic left a dark trail of destruction — almost all the towns and cities that Russia has captured since its full-scale invasion have been reduced to lightless ruins. Ukraine Goes Dark: Images From Space Drive Home the Nation’s Anguish 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z But they have redoubled their efforts to capture it in recent weeks, stepping up bombardment of the city center and outlying villages as part of a broader offensive in the eastern Donbas region. U.N. Official Heads to Ukrainian Nuclear Plant as Safety Fears Grow 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z As evidence, the ministry said that “on several axes across the Donbas front, Russian forces have made only marginal gains at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties.” Ukraine asks court to put Orthodox leader under house arrest 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Moscow sees capturing the city as vital to completing the capture of the Donbas industrial region in eastern Ukraine, one of its main war goals. Holding Bakhmut is a 'military necessity' - Ukrainian general 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Bakhmut is a major Russian target as it tries to fully capture Ukraine's industrialised Donbas region. Ukraine slams Putin plan to station Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Part of Russia’s strategy in southern Ukraine has been to create a “land bridge” that would tie Crimea to the occupied parts of the Donbas. Ukraine Goes Dark: Images From Space Drive Home the Nation’s Anguish 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Bakhmut is a major Russian target as it bids to fully capture Ukraine's industrialised Donbas region. Ukraine's top soldier says situation in embattled Bakhmut is stabilising 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Britain’s Defence Intelligence agency said on Twitter that “Russia’s assault on the Donbas town of Bakhmut has largely stalled. This is likely primarily a result of extreme attrition of the Russian force.” Ukraine says battle for Bakhmut is ‘stabilizing’ 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z “What I’m referring to is where the fighting is going on now, which is that eastern border region, Donbas, and then Crimea,” Mr. DeSantis said. DeSantis Calls Putin a ‘War Criminal,’ Clarifying Earlier Comment on Ukraine 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Zelensky, who last visited Bakhmut publicly in December, has said that he and his generals are determined to hold on to the city in Ukraine’s Donbas region despite Russia’s efforts to encircle it. Zelensky Makes Morale-Boosting Trip to Bakhmut 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Russian forces attacked northern and southern stretches of the front in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region on Friday, even as Kyiv said Moscow's assault was flagging near the city of Bakhmut. Wall St Week Ahead Strength in megacap stocks masks broader U.S. market woes 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Much of Donbas is rough with grit of the industrial age. Ukraine war: The front line where Russian eyes are always watching 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z The Florida governor - who won a landslide re-election last year - said his comment had referred only to the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and the occupied Crimean peninsula. Ron DeSantis says his Ukraine remarks 'mischaracterised' 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Ukrainian troops have burned through equipment in Bakhmut, a city in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine that has been devastated by a grueling, monthslong battle. The White House Authorizes $350 Million in Military Aid for Ukraine 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z In his nightly speech, he said it was “distressing” to see the “suffering and ruin” in the eastern Donbas region. Zelensky Makes Morale-Boosting Trip to Bakhmut 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The battle for Bakhmut in the industrial Donbas has been one of the fiercest of the nearly 13-month-old war in Ukraine, drawing comparisons with World War One trench warfare. Ukraine says eastern town of Avdiivka could become 'second Bakhmut' 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z A shadowy private military company said to be linked to him was first reported to be fighting Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donbas region. Yevgeny Prigozhin: From Putin's chef to Wagner founder 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z It is in the Donbas region, and Putin used the false argument that Ukraine was carrying out a “genocide” there to help justify the invasion. Your Monday Briefing: Putin and Xi to Meet in Moscow 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Both sides have been bloodied by the fighting for Bakhmut, but Ukrainian commanders say the planning for a renewed spring offensive to reclaim land in the Donbas has not been affected. Both sides brace for Ukraine’s long-awaited spring offensive 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Donetsk, together with the Luhansk region, comprise most of the Donbas industrialised part of Ukraine that has seen the biggest battle in Europe for generations. Putin makes surprise trip to Mariupol, first to occupied Donbas in Ukraine 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Russia has made the capture of Bakhmut a priority in its strategy to take control of Ukraine's eastern Donbas industrial region. Ukraine still able to resupply troops in battered Bakhmut, says army 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z It holds summer camps for Ukrainian orphans, offers "patriotic education" classes, and even runs a hotline to pair Russian families with children from Donbas. ICC issues arrest warrant for Putin and co-conspirator for allegedly abducting Ukrainian children 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z He joins Ukrainian soldiers just 500 metres from Russian forces as they battle for the city in the Donbas region. With Quentin Sommerville near the frontline in Bakhmut 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The city is in Ukraine's Donetsk, part of the largely Russian-speaking industrialised Donbas region which Moscow wants to annex with its self-declared "special military operation." Explainer: Bakhmut: Why Russia and Ukraine are battling so hard for one small city 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Russia claims it is fighting in Ukraine to "liberate" Russian speakers in the eastern Donbas from what it has called a neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv. Kremlin says its goals in Ukraine can only be achieved by military force 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z While Bakhmut's strategic value is debatable, Russia sees capturing it as a step towards a major aim of the war - now in its second year - of seizing all of Ukraine's Donbas industrial region. Ukraine, Russia locked in brutal battle in Bakhmut, casualties mount 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Both Ukraine and Russia on Sunday reported high casualties in Ukraine's Donbas region, the focus of Moscow's slow, long-running advance into its neighbour's territory. Boat capsizes off Madagascar on way to Mayotte, 22 killed - port authority 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Zelensky also singled out the cities of the Donbas region, which he said “Russia simply wants to burn.” Ukraine Steps Up Calls for Evacuation of Northeast Town Under Relentless Russian Shelling 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Alena Grom’s photographs portray women and children in the Donbas war zone, sheltered precariously in the tight, dark wombs of mines and cellars. In the galleries: Magical images of the ordinary 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Those were the divisions that Russia tried to exploit in 2014, annexing Crimea and starting a hybrid war in Donbas that succeeded in some Russian-speaking areas but failed in others. Review | Zelensky’s heroic wartime leadership has deep historical roots 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Moscow says capturing Bakhmut would punch a hole in Ukrainian defences and be a step towards seizing all of the Donbas industrial region, a major target. Ukraine: Russia suffered more than 500 killed and wounded in one day at Bakhmut 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Gradual Russian advances and high Ukrainian casualties have fueled talk of a retreat from Bakhmut, a city in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine that has been decimated by months of fighting. Front Line Shifts in Russia and Ukraine’s Battle for Bakhmut, Analysts Say 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Military analysts say that, while Russia has made few concrete territorial gains in its Donbas offensive, it has succeeded in making it impossible for Ukraine to restore everyday life in areas that it had reclaimed. Ukraine Steps Up Calls for Evacuation of Northeast Town Under Relentless Russian Shelling 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z In Ukraine, serious efforts to chip away at Russian nuclear dominance began in 2014 after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia sent troops to occupy territory in Crimea and the eastern Donbas region. Why Russia Has Such a Strong Grip on Europe’s Nuclear Power 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Moscow says Bakhmut is important as a step to securing the surrounding Donbas region, a major war aim. Ukraine scorns Russian missile strikes on civilians, defence of Bakhmut holds 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Donetsk, the center of Ukraine’s industrial heartland of the Donbas, has been engulfed by fighting ever since the Moscow-backed separatist rebellion erupted in April 2014, weeks after Russia’s illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. The flowers of war: Ukraine smith turns guns, ammo into art 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Although Bakhmut’s strategic value is debatable, Moscow is looking for a victory after a series of setbacks and sees the city as a key step in its efforts to seize all of Donbas. Front Line Shifts in Russia and Ukraine’s Battle for Bakhmut, Analysts Say 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Capturing territory around Melitopol could allow Ukrainian forces to sever a Russian line of control that extends from the Crimean Peninsula to the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Ukraine Steps Up Calls for Evacuation of Northeast Town Under Relentless Russian Shelling 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Last July, a video emerged that showed another captured Ukrainian soldier being castrated in the Russian-occupied Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine war: Top Ukraine athletes' defiant tribute to shot soldier 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z “I don’t know what Putin will do if he starts to lose in Donbas or Crimea. And so don’t you,” McFaul wrote. Analysis | Putin retreats deeper into his labyrinth 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z “This city is an important hub for the defense of Ukrainian troops in the Donbas,” he said. Russian mercenary group may be running out of prison conscripts 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The heavily industrialised Donbas region of eastern Ukraine comprises Donetsk and Luhansk, which with two other Ukrainian regions are claimed by Russia along as its own territory, claims Kyiv and the West reject as illegal. Pro-Ukraine group sabotaged pipelines, intelligence suggests, NYT reports 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Bakhmut, the ravaged city in the Donbas region, has become the focal point of Moscow’s wide-ranging offensive in eastern Ukraine. Zelensky says Ukrainian troops won’t withdraw from Bakhmut. 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Bakhmut, which had a prewar population of more than 70,000, was an important center for salt and gypsum mining in the Donetsk region of the country’s industrial heartland known as the Donbas. Battle for Bakhmut takes center stage in war in Ukraine 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z An expected Ukrainian spring counteroffensive may reverse these losses and eat away further at Russian territorial control in Donbas, the battle-worn region in southeastern Ukraine. Analysis | Putin retreats deeper into his labyrinth 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z This small administrative city in the Donbas is a wasteland of shattered buildings and trees. Up to 30,000 Russian casualties claimed in Bakhmut 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z "The city is an important hub for defending Ukrainian troops in the Donbas. Taking it under control will allow further offensive actions to be conducted deep into Ukraine's defensive lines," Shoigu said. Russia's Shoigu says capture of Ukraine's Bakhmut will allow more offensives 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Last July, a video emerged that showed a captured Ukrainian soldier being castrated in the Russian-occupied Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine war: President Zelensky vows to find killers of unarmed soldier with cigarette 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z When a separatist rebellion engulfed the Donbas in April 2014, weeks after Moscow’s illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, Russia-backed separatists won control of the city but lost it a few months later. Battle for Bakhmut takes center stage in war in Ukraine 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Russia and Ukraine share a land border extending more than 1,200 miles, including several hundred miles in the eastern Donbas region, parts of which are controlled by Moscow. Ukraine Signals It Will Keep Battling for Bakhmut to Drain Russia 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z "The city is an important defensive hub for Ukrainian forces in the Donbas," he said. Up to 30,000 Russian casualties claimed in Bakhmut 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The battle for Bakhmut, in the Donbas region, began over the summer, and Ukrainian soldiers have held out there even as Russian forces have gradually captured surrounding territory, nearly cutting off the city. Your Monday Briefing 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Some analysts see movement in Russia’s favor, after it rushed large numbers of troops to Donbas region as it ramped up its offensive there. Your Monday Briefing: China’s Post-Covid Economic Goal 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z “The Ukrainian defense of the Donbas town of Bakhmut is under increasingly severe pressure, with intense fighting taking place in and around the city,” the agency said. Fight for Ukrainian City of Bakhmut, After 7 Months, Becomes a Battle Over Roads 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z Russia says it would be a stepping stone to completing the capture of the Donbas industrial region, one of Moscow's most important objectives. UK says Ukraine forces under increasingly severe pressure defending Bakhmut 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Garland added that he believes the group “is responsible for the attacks on Ukrainians in the Donbas” and accused them of using prisoners from Russia “as cannon fodder” in Ukraine. The U.S. attorney general meets with Zelensky during a surprise visit to Ukraine. 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Russia, which lost territory in the second half of 2022, says taking Bakhmut would be a step towards seizing the rest of the surrounding industrial region known as the Donbas. Ukraine clings to Bakhmut; US readies $400 million in new military aid 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Even as Russia has faced setbacks, it aims to seize the whole of the eastern Donbas region, according to military analysts. Zelensky says the situation in Bakhmut is ‘getting more and more difficult.’ 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Russia says seizing Bakhmut would open the way to fully controlling the rest of the strategic Donbas industrial region bordering Russia, one of the main objectives of its invasion a year ago on Feb. 24. Ukraine clings to Bakhmut but time may be running out as Russians advance 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z A recent series of attacks along the front lines in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine were at first regarded as exploratory thrusts. Russia’s New Offensive Sends Conscripts Into the Teeth of Ukraine’s Lines 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Russia has made the capture Bakhmut a priority in its strategy to take control of Ukraine's eastern Donbas industrial region. Ukraine's ground forces commander visits besieged Bakhmut to talk strategy, boost morale 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Russian forces are making concerted efforts to capture the two eastern regions that make up the Donbas, and Zelenskiy has in recent weeks variously described the military situation in the east as difficult and painful. Zelenskiy fires a top Ukrainian military commander, no reason given 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Russia has stepped up its assaults in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks, as part of a renewed push to seize Donbas, which is made up of Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk. Deadly Russian Artillery Strikes Reported in Ukraine’s East and South 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z By defending their ruins, Ukrainian forces are slowing costly Russian offensive efforts to extend Moscow’s control over the entirety of eastern Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region. On Ukraine front, civilians cling on as troops repel Russia 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z “The more losses there, in Donbas,” he said in a nightly address last week, “the sooner we can end this war with Ukraine’s victory.” Russia’s New Offensive Sends Conscripts Into the Teeth of Ukraine’s Lines 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Capturing Bakhmut would constitute Russia’s biggest battlefield victory in months, and the city is seen as key to seizing the entire Donbas region of eastern Ukraine as President Vladimir V. Putin has ordered. Russian Artillery Strikes Reported in Ukraine’s East and South 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Russia’s battlefield strategy is largely concentrated on the Donbas region, the eastern industrial heartland where pro-Russian separatists have been largely in control for years. Russia's war on Ukraine grinds into second year as Putin gambles on the long game 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Capturing Bakhmut would constitute Russia’s biggest battlefield victory in months, and the city is seen as key to seizing the entire Donbas area of eastern Ukraine, as President Vladimir V. Putin has ordered. Deadly Russian Artillery Strikes Reported in Ukraine’s East and South 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z In Bakhmut, a soldier who allowed himself to be identified only by his war name, “Expert,” said the pulverized city in the Donbas’ Donetsk region “has become a stronghold ” for Ukraine. On Ukraine front, civilians cling on as troops repel Russia 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z In the current offensive, Russia has chosen to try half a dozen attacks all along the Donbas front, rather than concentrate on a single assault. Russia’s New Offensive Sends Conscripts Into the Teeth of Ukraine’s Lines 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Russia has ramped up its push in recent weeks in an attempt to secure the whole of the Donbas region. Russian Artillery Strikes Reported in Ukraine’s East and South 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z But the attack on Kyiv was repulsed, the Ukrainian military was able to retake some areas, and the conflict has become a grinding war of attrition for territory in the the eastern Donbas region. Ukraine war: Zelensky keen to meet Xi following China's peace plan 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Russia responded by annexing Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and then threw its weight behind an insurgency in the mostly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine region known as Donbas that continues and which Putin has illegally annexed. Russia, Ukraine face off at UN with rival tributes to dead 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Although Russia has seized most of the Luhansk region that also forms part of the Donbas, the adjacent Donetsk region remains roughly divided between Ukrainian and Russian control. On Ukraine front, civilians cling on as troops repel Russia 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Even in late spring, Bakhmut was a town on the front line, in the cross hairs of Russia’s advance in the Donbas region. Our Photographers in Ukraine on the Images They Can’t Forget 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The town sits on high ground in the heavily contested Donbas region in the east. Ukraine war: Vuhledar, the mining town Russia wants to take 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z And when DeSantis talks about “the borderlands” I guess he means the eastern Donbas region, which Putin has “annexed” but which lies within Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders. Opinion | Ron DeSantis, potential GOP standard-bearer, sounds out of his depth 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z It does not feel like that on the front lines in Donbas. Ukraine war: The friends who fought Russia's invasion 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z It denied backing separatists in Ukraine's Donbas region in 2014 and said its annexation of Crimea was backed by a referendum, which Kyiv and the West say violated Ukraine’s constitution and international law. NATO's Stoltenberg: Ukraine war must end Russian 'cycle of aggression' 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Brigadier General Oleksiy Gromov said Russia had set the goal of capturing all the territory it does not control in the two regions that make up the industrial Donbas area of eastern Ukraine by summer. Russia steps up hostilities to deplete Ukraine's forces - Kyiv 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Russia recently intensified its push to capture all of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland of the Donbas. In Russia-Ukraine war, more disastrous path could lie ahead 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Russia, trying to secure full control of two eastern provinces forming Ukraine's Donbas industrial region, has launched repeated assaults. Biden, Putin display their alliances with Ukraine war backdrop 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Since then, the pressure has mostly been off the capital, compared to the nightmarish months since the Russian focus turned to the Donbas and the approaches to the Crimean Peninsula in the south. Ukraine war: The friends who fought Russia's invasion 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z The most immediate variables on the battlefield in Ukraine are in the eastern Donbas region, now the epicenter of the fighting and a crucial barometer of the strength and morale of each country’s military. ‘System-changing’: Fallout from Russia-Ukraine war reshapes global order 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Fighting in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region is a brutal slog, with mud, trenches and bloody infantry assaults reminiscent of World War I. Global impact: 5 ways war in Ukraine has changed the world 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Along with fulfilling its goal of capturing the entire Donbas, Moscow aims to wear down Ukrainian forces and prevent them from starting offensives elsewhere. In Russia-Ukraine war, more disastrous path could lie ahead 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z And prominent Russian military bloggers said last week that Basurin had fallen victim to Moscow’s recent purge of Donbas separatist officers. Russia’s top paramilitary chief accuses army command of treason 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Maxsym stayed with their unit, and in the months since then has been in some of the heaviest fighting of the war, in the battles in Donbas. Ukraine war: The friends who fought Russia's invasion 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z He said the invasion was justified to protect ethnic Russians living in the disputed Donbas territory and to ensure Russian territorial security. In dueling speeches, Putin and Biden offer radically different visions of the fight to come 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has grown more powerful in conflicts from the Donbas to the Sahel. Global impact: 5 ways war in Ukraine has changed the world 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said Russia has poured more troops and weapons into the Donbas and attacked other areas in an apparent bid to distract Ukrainian forces. In Russia-Ukraine war, more disastrous path could lie ahead 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Russia, trying to secure full control of two eastern provinces forming Ukraine's Donbas industrial region, has launched repeated assaults, securing its biggest gains around the mining city of Bakhmut. Zelenskiy says Ukrainian forces holding line, Russia claims advance 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z He said the pro-Moscow residents in the disputed Donbas region have been fighting for the right to live on their land and to speak Russian since 2014. Putin blames the U.S. and its Western allies for the war in Ukraine 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The pair also visited a memorial to soldiers who have died in the nine years since Russia annexed Crimea and its proxy forces captured parts of the eastern Donbas region. Ukraine war: Biden to frame conflict as battle for democracy 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z If a major Russian counteroffensive does eventually materialize, analysts say it is most likely to occur farther south, in the Donbas region and around Zaporizhzhia. In Northern Ukraine, a Different Sort of War Game 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z But even though Ukraine and its allies expect a wider Russian offensive beyond the Donbas, it could be a gamble for Moscow, which mobilized 300,000 reservists last fall to bolster its forces. In Russia-Ukraine war, more disastrous path could lie ahead 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z His unit was deploying to Donbas, the eastern region where, just as they are now, the Russians and Ukrainians were slaughtering each other in World War I-style trench warfare. They Were Married. They Shared a Trench. They Died in It Together. 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Moscow launched its “special military operation” in Ukraine, said Mr. Putin, to protect ethnic Russians living in the disputed Donbas territory and to ensure Russian territorial security. Putin blames the U.S. and its Western allies for the war in Ukraine 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Russia launched its invasion a year ago this week and has concentrated on securing control of Donbas, made up of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, after failing initially to advance on the capital Kyiv. Zelenskiy says Ukraine will defend Bakhmut within reason from Russia 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Putin watchers believe he will seek to extend control of the four regions that he has declared to be part of Russia, not just in Donbas, but towards the key city of Zaporizhzhia. Has Putin's war failed and what does Russia want? 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z The sides have been locked in grinding battles, mostly in the eastern Donbas region, following a string of Russian defeats. Ukraine presses U.S. Congress members for F-16 jetfighters, lawmakers say 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z He refuses to speak about what he did in Ukraine's Donbas region, but on his return to Serbia was sent to jail. Serbia nationalist protests spike tensions over Russia 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Russia's focus is on the small eastern city of Bakhmut in Donetsk, one of two regions making up the Donbas, Ukraine's industrial heartland now partially occupied by Russia. Ukraine's priority to hold the line as global security leaders gather 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z A current focus of its forces is Bakhmut in Donetsk, one of two regions making up the Donbas, the country's industrial heartland now partially occupied by Russia. Ukraine prosecutor says probes Russian killing of civilians in Bakhmut 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Russia had shifted tactics, withdrawing troops from the north after fierce Ukrainian resistance and focusing on what Moscow described as the “liberation” of the contested Donbas region. In the lives of 5 friends, Ukraine’s war story unfolds 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z After capturing the Donbas cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, Putin declared a victory in the area on July 4, though fighting went on. Ukraine war: major developments since Russia's invasion 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Russia’s goal seems to be the seizure of the entire Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine, by overwhelming Ukrainian forces with troops. The Next Phase in Ukraine 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Ukraine’s dogged resistance and Western weapons and intelligence have helped thwart the Kremlin’s ambitions of securing the entire eastern Donbas region. Kyiv clamors for fighter jets as war nears ‘critical’ phase 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former Ukrainian minister of defense, said he expected the Russian army to attempt the capture of the Donbas and then “announce the completion of their special military operation” and call for negotiations. The war’s violent next stage 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z But the Kremlin, undaunted, drafted about 300,000 men last fall and sent many of them to the Donbas. Ukraine Bars Aid Workers From Bakhmut as Russia Tightens Its Grip 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, who is accompanying Mr. Austin on his European trip this week, said the Russians are taking heavy casualties as they continue their attack in the Donbas region. Ukraine’s allies pledge new support as Russian offensive builds 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z “This is what has the Ukrainians beside themselves with worry,” said my colleague Michael Schwirtz, who has been reporting from Donbas. The Next Phase in Ukraine 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Russian forces are “struggling mightily” and making only slow progress in the Donbas. Kyiv clamors for fighter jets as war nears ‘critical’ phase 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z But, he noted, it will be the third attempt by Russia to capture the Donbas since the war began; the first two failed. The war’s violent next stage 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Defense Ministry said Russian forces are bolstering defensive fortifications on the edge of the battlefront in southern Ukraine to protect their flank, despite their focus on the Donbas region. Russia pushes advance on Bakhmut, bolsters defenses in south 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z "Do you want to achieve a willingness to negotiate with the deliveries of the tanks? Do you want to reconquer Donbas or Crimea? Or do you want to defeat Russia completely?" asked Vad. Media spin and politicians' lies are fueling a bloody war of attrition in Ukraine 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Russia is hoping to claim a new victory this week by seizing control of Bakhmut, a city in Donbas. The Next Phase in Ukraine 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z For months, Ukraine has expended significant resources and troops defending Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region. U.S. warns Ukraine it faces a pivotal moment in war 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z The Donetsk and Luhansk regions make up the Donbas, Ukraine's industrial heartland, now partially occupied by Russia which wants full control. New Russian offensive underway in Ukraine, says NATO 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z In Kyiv, dozens of people from Donbas, Kherson and Kharkiv regions are being helped by Center of Hope and Recovery, an organization that provides temporary homes and meals. Russia pushes advance on Bakhmut, bolsters defenses in south 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Many of those troops have headed into the raging battle for Bakhmut, a city on the path to Putin’s longtime goal of conquering Donbas, which comprises Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Ukraine readies along all fronts for Russia’s next big attack 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z “Russia is going to try to surround Donbas and cut it off and wrest it away fully from Ukraine,” Michael told my colleague Claire Moses. The Next Phase in Ukraine 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Moscow has stepped up its attacks in other front-line areas in the Donbas region in the east, and in the south. Ukraine war: Russians slowly take ground around Bakhmut 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Since then, it has moved the bulk of its forces to eastern Ukraine in and around the disputed Donbas region. Scores of Russian troops killed, wounded in Ukraine over past 2 weeks 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z The attacks come as Russian forces push to take over more land in the eastern industrial heartland of Donbas, comprised of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Russia continues to shell Ukraine amid grinding push in east 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Launching the offensive at part, or parts, of the 280-mile Donbas front would let Moscow capitalize on the forces, equipment and infrastructure it has amassed here over nine years of waging war in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine readies along all fronts for Russia’s next big attack 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video interview released late Friday that it could take 18 months to two years for Russia to fully secure control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland of Donbas. Wagner owner says war in Ukraine could drag on for years 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z The Kremlin’s forces focused their bombardments on Ukraine’s industrial east, especially the Luhansk and Donetsk provinces that make up the industrial Donbas region where fighting has recently been most intense, the Ukrainian military said. Russia hits targets across Ukraine with missiles, drones 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z The Kremlin officially annexed regions of the Donbas as part of Russia late last year, a move that only a tiny handful of countries has recognized. Ukraine’s Christians attacked for not cooperating with Russian occupiers, pastors say 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video interview released late Friday that it could take 18 months to two years for Russia to fully secure control of Donbas. Russia continues to shell Ukraine amid grinding push in east 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Analysts note that it would bring maximum firepower in support of Putin’s reported directive to conquer all of Donbas by the end of March. Ukraine readies along all fronts for Russia’s next big attack 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z As Russian troops have pushed their attacks in the Donbas, Moscow has also sought to demoralize Ukrainians by leaving them without heat and water in the bitter winter. Wagner owner says war in Ukraine could drag on for years 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z It is now focusing its efforts on gaining full control of the Donbas. Russia hits targets across Ukraine with missiles, drones 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z It has also maintained, falsely, that Russia was not a party to the conflict that unfolded in Donbas in 2014. Dutch probe implicates Putin in 2014 downing of Malaysian passenger jet 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Ukrainian authorities say the Kremlin’s goal is to complete full control of the Donbas, an expansive industrial area bordering Russia. Ukraine’s leader Zelenskyy to visit U.K. for first time since Russia’s invasion 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Taking Bakhmut would give him one, and bring him closer to his aim of capturing all of the mineral rich Donbas region. Ukraine war: Borrowed time for Bakhmut as Russians close in 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Ensuring Kremlin rule in the eastern Donbas industrial region, bordering Russia, is expected to be a key objective. Russian shells spark hospital fire ahead of expected assault 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Russia’s military is preparing to launch a new offensive that could soon swallow Ms. Degtyaryova’s village of Nevske, and perhaps much more in the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas. Outnumbered and Worn Out, Ukrainians in East Brace for Russian Assault 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z They are located in the Donetsk region, which with the neighboring Luhansk region makes up the Donbas region, an industrial area bordering Russia. Russian forces keep up pressure as Ukraine anniversary nears 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z They are located in the Donetsk region, which with neighboring Luhansk region makes up the Donbas region, an industrial area bordering Russia. Russian forces keep up pressure as Ukraine anniversary nears 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Russian forces since last summer have bombarded Bakhmut, a city once home to 70,000 people in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, which President Vladimir V. Putin has ordered his forces to capture completely. Fierce Battle Rages for ‘Every Stairwell’ in Bakhmut, Russian Paramilitary Leader Says 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z He added, “but I suspect it may prove underwhelming, focused largely on the Donbas.” Russian shells spark hospital fire ahead of expected assault 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z This area in the northern Donbas was among the last to be liberated in a Ukrainian blitz offensive last fall that raised hopes among local residents that their months of trauma were over. Outnumbered and Worn Out, Ukrainians in East Brace for Russian Assault 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Russian forces have been attempting to encircle and capture Bakhmut, a city in the eastern Donbas region, for weeks, and appear to be making slow, grinding and costly progress. Fierce fighting in north of Ukraine's Bakhmut, says Russian head of Wagner militia 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z It is close to a rail line connecting Crimea, a hub for Russian troops and supplies, and the Donbas region. Attacking Vuhledar, Russia previews new push to seize southeast Ukraine 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z In recent weeks, pouring more troops into Donbas and intensifying artillery strikes, Russia has steadily surrounded Bakhmut from three sides and cut off many of the roads leading into and out of the city. Fierce Battle Rages for ‘Every Stairwell’ in Bakhmut, Russian Paramilitary Leader Says 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z It sits at the intersection of the eastern front in the Donetsk region and the southern front in the Zaporizhzhia region, close to the only rail line linking Crimea with the Donbas region. Russia Pushes to Take Ukrainian Town Near a Vital Supply Line 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z At one frontline hospital in the Donbas, the morgue was packed with the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers in white plastic bags. Outnumbered and Worn Out, Ukrainians in East Brace for Russian Assault 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z In addition to taking control of Donbas, Moscow also is intent on keeping control over the land bridge to Crimea, the peninsula which Russia occupied in 2014. Russia Pushes to Take Ukrainian Town Near a Vital Supply Line 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z But Russia still holds large swaths of eastern and southern Ukraine, and is pouring tremendous resources into Mr. Putin’s effort to conquer the entire eastern region known as the Donbas. E.U. Vows More Help for Ukraine but Tamps Down Membership Talk 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Intense fighting remains around Bakhmut, in the Donbas region, but there are no drastic territorial shifts. Fears of Russian Nuclear Weapons Use Have Diminished, but Could Re-emerge 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z "Ukraine would be able to hold Bakhmut and liberate occupied Donbas if it received long-range weapons," he said. Ukraine will fight to hold 'fortress' Bakhmut as long as it can - Zelenskiy 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z In Kramatorsk, in the Donbas, on Thursday, rescuers were digging through the rubble of a four-story building hit by rockets the night before, when a searing light raced across the sky. As Russia Strikes Ukrainian Civilians, Putin Tells His People the War Is Just 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z He assures me he did not participate in Russia's annexation of Crimea, or fight in eastern Ukraine when war first erupted in the Donbas nine years ago. Russian army officer admits: 'Our troops tortured Ukrainians' 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Putin aims to capture the entire Donbas by March, Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence, said on national television on Friday. E.U. Vows More Help for Ukraine but Tamps Down Membership Talk 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Both sides have been readying for heavier ground combat, with Moscow aiming to capture the entire Donbas region and Kyiv looking to drive Russian troops completely out of the country. Your Thursday Briefing 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z After a failed advance on the capital Kyiv early in the campaign, Russia said it was reorienting its military drive to secure control of the industrial eastern region known as the Donbas. Russia advances in eastern Ukraine, strike on apartments kills civilians 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z In recent days, there have been claims by Kremlin backers of scattered Russian attacks and incremental gains along the Donbas front line. As Russia Strikes Ukrainian Civilians, Putin Tells His People the War Is Just 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z He later said they needed the gear for missions in Donbas, the eastern Ukraine region under relentless Russian attack. Hard Drinking and Murky Finances: How an American Veterans Group Imploded in Ukraine 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z “The intensity we are currently observing in Donbas is an attempt to implement these plans,” he said. E.U. Vows More Help for Ukraine but Tamps Down Membership Talk 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Despite some heavy fighting in the eastern Donbas region, the war has entered something of a stalemate in recent months since Ukraine retook the southern city of Kherson. Ukraine war: Russia planning 24 February offensive, Ukrainian defence minister says 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Both sides have been readying for heavier ground combat, with Moscow pressing its goal to capture the entire Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and Kyiv aiming to drive Russian troops out of the country completely. Russian Troop Buildup May Signal New Assault, Ukraine Says 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Donetsk and Luhansk provinces make up the Donbas, an industrial region bordering Russia that President Vladimir Putin identified as a goal from the war’s outset and where Moscow-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian authorities since 2014. Russia focuses on eastern Ukraine for possible new offensive 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z “I dream of going back to Donbas,” he said. Hard Drinking and Murky Finances: How an American Veterans Group Imploded in Ukraine 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Putin responded by sending troops to seize Crimea and fomenting a separatist war in the Donbas. E.U. Vows More Help for Ukraine but Tamps Down Membership Talk 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Mr Reznikov's comments come as Ukrainian intelligence alleges that President Putin has ordered his forces to seize the Donbas before the end of spring. Ukraine war: Russia planning 24 February offensive, Ukrainian defence minister says 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z It could be planning a drive from occupied territory in eastern Ukraine to push deeper into the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, which make up Donbas. Russian Troop Buildup May Signal New Assault, Ukraine Says 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Russia has intensified its effort to capture Bakhmut — which it sees as crucial to the objective of seizing the entire Donbas area in the east — after months of bombardment yielded little progress. Your Wednesday Briefing 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Russia intensified its effort to capture Bakhmut, which may be key to seizing the entire Donbas area, after months of bombardment beginning in the summer yielded few gains. Seeing a Prize, Russia Inundates a Ukraine City With Troops 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z One experienced officer said he believed Russia was looking to straighten its frontline, take a few more chunks of the Donbas, and then declare "mission accomplished" and push for peace negotiations. Ukraine war: Russian threat growing, front line troops fear 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Ukraine's Deputy Defence Minster Hanna Malyar said that intense fighting was continuing in the Donbas region, where Russian forces and Wagner Group mercenaries have been trying to take the town of Bakhmut. Ukraine war: Russia planning 24 February offensive, Ukrainian defence minister says 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z On the southern edge of the Donetsk region in Donbas, Russia continues to assault the Ukrainian stronghold of Vuhledar, about 60 miles south of Bakhmut. Russian Troop Buildup May Signal New Assault, Ukraine Says 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z In past battles in Donbas, Russia has aimed to encircle a city first, leaving Ukraine to decide whether to expend costly resources to defend it. Ukraine and Russia locked in ‘very tough’ battle for Bakhmut 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z In past battles in the Donbas, Russian forces have often aimed to encircle a city first, leaving Ukraine to decide whether to expend costly resources to defend it. Seeing a Prize, Russia Inundates a Ukraine City With Troops 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Assessing the overall state of the conflict across the Donbas is extremely difficult. Ukraine war: Russian threat growing, front line troops fear 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z In 2014, he invaded Donbas and Crimea, with his trademark combination of blatant lies and brutality. Opinion | Putin has paved the way for Ukrainian membership in NATO 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z The Donbas region is largely controlled by Russia. Exclusive: Pro-Kremlin activists in Germany gave money for Russian army gear 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Russian forces wrestled for control of villages in eastern Ukraine near the city of Bakhmut over the weekend, the latest flash point as Moscow tries to seize the whole of the eastern region of Donbas. Your Monday Briefing 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z That would be a departure from Moscow’s summer campaigns elsewhere in the Donbas, when artillery pounded cities for weeks before Russia launched a sustained ground offensive. Seeing a Prize, Russia Inundates a Ukraine City With Troops 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z There have been many untimely, unexpected funerals in this northern Donbas town in recent months, but this one, unusually, was not for a soldier or a regular civilian. Ukraine war: Funeral held for battleground body collector 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Many civilians have followed a directive from the government in Kyiv to leave Donetsk, which is home to Bakhmut and one of the two regions that make up the Donbas region. Russia and Ukraine Battle for Control of Villages Near the Key City of Bakhmut 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Even Russia’s more limited goal of taking over the entire eastern region of Donbas remains elusive. To Fix Its Problems in Ukraine, Russia Turns to the Architect of the War 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Casualties of war: Many civilians have followed a directive from the government in Kyiv to leave Donetsk, which is in the Donbas region. Your Monday Briefing 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z His comments come after the United Nations' top rights official expressed concern in July that Ukrainian children had been taken from orphanages in the eastern Donbas region and "forcibly deported" to Russia. Ukraine war: UN accuses Russia of breaking child protection rules over refugees 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z While backing the separatist insurgency in the Donbas, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, Russia denied sending its own weapons and troops there despite ample evidence to the contrary. Brutality of Russia’s Wagner gives it lead in Ukraine war 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z The Kremlin has set full control of the Donbas, where it has held considerable ground since 2014, as its immediate military objective. Russia and Ukraine Battle for Control of Villages Near the Key City of Bakhmut 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The capture of Soledar is the first significant victory for Russian ground forces in months and brings them closer to encircling Bakhmut in the eastern region of Ukraine, known as the Donbas. As Ukraine awaits promised tanks from the West, the fighting continues. 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The tanks could be crucial to countering Russian forces in Ukraine’s Donbas region near Bakhmut and Soledar, as well as in the Zaporizhzhia region, where Moscow has recently begun a small offensive. Will German and U.S. tanks be game changer for Ukraine? 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z “There’s gonna be a winter offensive by the Russians. They need these tanks on the eastern flank in the Donbas,” Mr. McCaul said on ABC’s “This Week.” U.S. to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine to help fend off invading Russia in major policy reversal 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Moscow has held significant territory in Donbas since 2014, including two regional capitals. Ukraine says that its forces have retreated from Soledar after an intense battle. 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Military authorities in Ukraine say that Moscow’s advances in the Donbas region have come at the expense of heavy casualties, not least among the ranks of the Wagner private military company. Russia and Ukraine Battle for Control of Villages Near the Key City of Bakhmut 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Moscow has portrayed the battle for Soledar, which lies near the city of Bakhmut, as key to capturing the entire Donbas. Ukraine forces pull back from Donbas town after onslaught 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Zelenskiy repeated Ukraine's contention that Russia is planning a new wave of aggression, with the first signs already visible in the broader Donbas region in Ukraine's southeast. Zelenskiy says Ukraine needs decisions on modern tanks deliveries 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Mr Medvedev claims to have witnessed a host of war crimes - including seeing "deserters being executed" by the Wagner Group's internal security service - while fighting in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Andrey Medvedev: Russian Wagner mercenary who fled to Norway arrested 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z But since seizing two key cities in Luhansk last summer, Russia’s military advances in Donbas have been slow. Ukraine says that its forces have retreated from Soledar after an intense battle. 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Prigozhin acknowledged only last September that he had founded the Wagner group, which has played a major role in the Russian military's attempts to capture territory in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Russian Wagner boss acknowledges comparison with Rasputin 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Since its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has prioritized taking full control of the Donbas — a region made up of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, where it has backed a separatist insurgency since 2014. Ukraine forces pull back from Donbas town after onslaught 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Two Ukrainian fighter jets roar low overhead as we emerge from a dense, snow-bound forest and drive into the railway junction town of Lyman, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Ukraine war: Resilient civilians return to liberated town of Lyman 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Russian troops and mercenary allies are making small gains in key areas of Ukraine’s disputed Donbas region in the east. Ukraine fumes as NATO members slow roll tank aid 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Since an aggressive Ukrainian counteroffensive in late August, fighting has concentrated in Donbas, which includes most of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions that are partly controlled by Russia and which Moscow claims to have annexed. Russia increases shelling in regions outside Ukraine's Donbas - officials 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z The two provinces together make up the Donbas, an industrial heartland that borders Russia where pro-Moscow separatists have fought for almost nine years. Russia claims progress in eastern Ukraine; Kyiv craves tanks 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The United States, in consultation with “core” allies Britain and France, was closely following the battle around Bakhmut, a city in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region that was locked in back-and-forth fighting. Inside the urgent push to arm Ukraine for a spring offensive 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Despite heavy fighting continuing in the Donbas, civilians are trickling back to liberated Ukrainian towns close to the front line - against the advice of local authorities. Ukraine war: Resilient civilians return to liberated town of Lyman 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Bakhmut has been a focal point of Russian attacks over recent months as Russia continues its push to capture all of the Donbas area of eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s Allies Pledge to Send Major Infusion of Military Aid 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Fighting continued to be most intense in the strategic industrial region known as the Donbas on Ukraine's eastern border with Russia, Ukrainian military officials said on Thursday night. Ukraine expects decisions on tanks at Western defence leaders' meeting 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Ukraine needs at least 300 tanks to keep Russia from advancing in the Donbas and Zaporizhzhia province, as well as for a possible counteroffensive in the country’s southeast, analysts say. Russia claims progress in eastern Ukraine; Kyiv craves tanks 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The tactics were tailor-made for the expansive, Kansas-like plains and farmland spread across Donbas. Inside the urgent push to arm Ukraine for a spring offensive 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The standoff comes at a crucial moment in the Ukraine-Russia war, with Russian troops and its mercenary allies making small gains on the ground in key areas of Ukraine’s disputed Donbas region in the east. ‘We shouldn’t hesitate’: Ukraine, allies fume as Germany balks on tanks 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z President Vucic this week made Belgrade's position crystal clear: "For us, Crimea is Ukraine, Donbas is Ukraine, and it will remain so." Ukraine war: Serbia uproar over Wagner mercenaries recruiting for Russia 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said Russian forces shelled the town of Bakhmut, Russia's main target in Donetsk province, which combined with Luhansk province forms the Donbas. Ukraine expects decisions on tanks at Western defence leaders' meeting 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Ukrainian forces have acknowledged "stepping back" from the bitterly contested Donbas town of Soledar, captured by Russian forces last week in their first significant victory after many months in retreat. Ukraine war: Ukraine admits retreat from front line town of Soledar 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Speaking at a meeting with veterans, Putin said Moscow had long sought to negotiate a settlement to the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas, an eastern industrial region where Russia-backed separatists have battled Ukrainian forces since 2014. Putin: Ukraine action aimed to end ‘war’ raging since 2014 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Over the summer, during intense fighting between Ukraine and Russia in the eastern region of Donbas, Pentagon officials gathered satellite imagery that showed the devastation wrought on farmland between the two forces’ trench lines. Pentagon Sends U.S. Arms Stored in Israel to Ukraine 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The Russians, too, are racing to rearm, re-equip and strengthen their own forces in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine for their own expected spring or late winter push to grab more Ukrainian territory. At a Pivotal Moment in Ukraine, U.S. and Allies Will Decide on Sending Arms 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z As a man with previous military experience, Medvedev was appointed a unit commander in the eastern Donbas region. Andrey Medvedev: How Russian mercenary made an icy escape to Norway 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z UK officials believe the Wagner Group makes up about 10% of Russia's forces in Ukraine, and played a significant part in helping Moscow's forces take the town of Soledar in eastern Donbas region last week. Ukraine war: Russia's Wagner Group commander requests Norway asylum 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Akhmetov said he was confident Ukraine would win “the horrendous and unjust war” and then “we will play a friendly against Chelsea at Donbas Arena in a Ukrainian Donetsk.” Shakhtar owner pledges $25M to Ukrainian soldiers, families 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z But Soledar itself likely will not play a major role in retaking Bakhmut or the greater region of Donbas, which has been one of Putin’s primary targets. Putin’s Wins and Losses 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk province make up the Donbas, an expansive industrial region bordering Russia that Russian President Vladimir Putin identified as a focus from the war’s outset. As 37 die in apartment strike, Russia seen readying long war 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z In Ukraine's eastern Donbas region - the focal point of Russia's drive to capture more territory - Ukraine's forces were battling around the small salt-mining town of Soledar. Rescue hopes fade after Russian attack on Dnipro 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z In Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region - the focal point of Russia’s drive to capture more territory - Ukraine’s forces were battling around the small salt-mining town of Soledar. Russia-Belarus to conduct 'defensive' air drills, sparking fear in Kyiv of new offensive in Ukraine 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z 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. A loving dad and his injured son pay war’s costs in Ukraine 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Russian forces in the area far outnumber the Ukrainian troops who remain, according to people familiar with the matter on the Ukrainian side in the eastern Donbas region. Russia’s Claim to Seize a Ukrainian Town Exposes Rifts Among Forces 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Soledar: Ukraine says it is still fighting for this town outside Bakhmut, a key city in the eastern region of Donbas, despite the Wagner Group’s claim that its mercenaries had taken the town. Your Thursday Briefing 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z It shifted to a slow, grinding offensive concentrating on the eastern Donbas that succeeded in capturing several cities at high cost, but then stalled. Russia Replaces Commander for Ukraine War, as Signs of Dissension Grow 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Soledar: Ukraine says it is still fighting for this town outside Bakhmut, a key city in the eastern Donbas region, despite the Wagner Group’s claim that its mercenaries had taken the town. Your Thursday Briefing: A Russian Military Shake-Up 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Both sides have poured troops and resources to capture or defend Donbas strongholds, fighting over months of grinding, attritional combat to what has largely become a bloody stalemate. A loving dad and his injured son pay war’s costs in Ukraine 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Military analysts say that even if Soledar were to fall, it would not necessarily mean that Bakhmut — or the whole of the Donbas — was next. Russia’s Claim to Seize a Ukrainian Town Exposes Rifts Among Forces 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Located at the base of the southern portion of the Donbas salient, Bakhmut is the anchor of the Ukrainian defense in the Donbas region. Grim Russian offensive makes Bakhmut unlikely focus of Ukraine war 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Ukrainian forces, armed with increasingly sophisticated Western weapons, made more gains in Kherson Province and in the Donbas region in the east, and repeatedly struck targets far behind the front lines. Russia Replaces Commander for Ukraine War, as Signs of Dissension Grow 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Russian and Ukrainian forces were engaged in intense fighting on Wednesday over the town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine, a stepping stone in Moscow's push to capture the entire Donbas region. Russia appoints Gerasimov as top commander in Ukraine 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z But the beds around him are unlikely to stay empty for long, given the ferocity of the fighting in the Donbas. A loving dad and his injured son pay war’s costs in Ukraine 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z He added: “If you look at what’s been happening over the last 10 and a half months, particularly in the Donbas, towns and villages have swapped hands quite frequently.” Russia’s Claim to Seize a Ukrainian Town Exposes Rifts Among Forces 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z It is a region rich in natural resources, including the vast salt mines in Soledar, located just six miles north of Bakhmut, and contains the heavy industry which characterizes much of the Donbas. Grim Russian offensive makes Bakhmut unlikely focus of Ukraine war 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z A monthslong Russian drive to capture the small city of Bakhmut, in the Donbas, has cost many lives but gained little ground. Russia Replaces Commander for Ukraine War, as Signs of Dissension Grow 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Together, the provinces make up the Donbas, a broad industrial region bordering Russia that Putin identified as a focus from the war’s outset and where Moscow-backed separatists have fought since 2014. Ukraine says mining town holding out against Russian assault 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The Kremlin has made Bakhmut, in turn, the centerpiece of its drive to occupy all of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, devoting resources and spilling blood there out of proportion to the city’s size. Russian Mercenary Group Says It Has Taken Contested Ukrainian Town 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Together, the provinces make up the Donbas, a broad industrial region bordering Russia that Russian President Vladimir Putin identified as a focus from the war’s outset and where Moscow-backed separatists have fought since 2014. ‘What madness looks like’: Russia intensifies Bakhmut attack 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The capture of Soledar would not only give the Russians a key foothold north of Bakhmut, but effectively cut the city off from the eastern portion of the Donbas salient. Grim Russian offensive makes Bakhmut unlikely focus of Ukraine war 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The most striking recent failure came on New Year’s Day, when Ukrainian artillery struck a complex housing new Russian soldiers in the Donbas city of Makiivka. Russia Replaces Commander for Ukraine War, as Signs of Dissension Grow 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday said the resilience of Ukraine's forces fighting off waves of attacks in the eastern region of Donbas had helped the country win time and gain strength. Putin ally Patrushev says Russia is now fighting NATO in Ukraine 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z “The result of this difficult and long battle will be the liberation of our entire Donbas,” he said. Russian Mercenary Group Says It Has Taken Contested Ukrainian Town 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Before Russia’s invasion, it was home to red brick merchant houses and universities, nestled between rolling, grassy hills in the eastern Donbas region. Without Hesitation, Ukraine Goes Toe to Toe With Russia in Bakhmut 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z "Strikes on Kramatorsk and other cities in Donbas - on civilian targets and at the very time when Moscow was reporting a supposed 'silence' for its army." Zelenskiy: Ukraine holding two towns, Russians in new attacks 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Ukrainian officials also reported blasts in regions that make up the broader Donbas region - the war's frontline where fighting has been raging for months. Moscow ends self-proclaimed ceasefire, vows to press ahead in Ukraine 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z The "pops" of outgoing tank fire tell you you're getting close to one of the most active parts of the front line in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. Ukraine war: The Christmas ceasefire that wasn't 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Originally from Donbas, she said she stopped attending the church of the Moscow Patriarchate in 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula and supported the conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine. Ukrainians celebrate Orthodox Christmas in reclaimed church 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z At those talks, Ukraine agreed to negotiate the future of Donbas and to postpone a final decision on the future of Crimea for up to 15 years. Can NATO and the Pentagon find a diplomatic off-ramp from the Ukraine war? 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Bakhmut, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, is among the few locations where Russian forces have remained on the offensive, even as they have lost ground elsewhere. Attacks Continue in Ukraine Despite Russia’s Supposed Cease-Fire 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Residents in Bakhmut, in the eastern Donbas region, said that the sounds of fighting continued Friday and that nothing had changed in the area despite the purported pause. Putin’s Cease-Fire Appears to Have Little Early Effect 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z He said it was a trick to halt the progress of Ukraine's forces in the eastern Donbas region and bring in more of Moscow's forces. Ukraine clinches U.S., German armoured vehicles, rejects Russian truce order 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Bakhmut is a city in the eastern Donbas, an expansive industrial region bordering Russia. Russian church head calls for Ukraine truce, finds no takers 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Commander Skala, as he wants to be called, is controlling the Ukrainian operation to defend the city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region from an underground chamber off a nondescript street. Ukraine war: Defying Russian onslaught in city 'at the end of the world' 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z So far, the rocket launchers have not led to big changes to the front lines in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine where Monday’s deadly strike on a school being used as a barracks happened. A U.S.-made long-range rocket system has helped give Ukraine momentum in the war. 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z The son of a coal miner turned self-made billionaire, he is known across Ukraine as "the King of Donbas." Russia's war drains Ukraine's rich list of power 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z It comes after Ukraine carried out a strike that it said killed hundreds of Russian troops in the Donbas region. Russia plans to 'exhaust' Ukraine with prolonged attacks - Zelensky 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z To the east in the Donbas region, Russia continues to press its only remaining offensive. Russian Airstrikes Leave Ukrainians Few Options but to Endure 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Capturing Bakhmut is also important to further Russia's aim to control the whole of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine war: Defying Russian onslaught in city 'at the end of the world' 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Ukrainian authorities said that the hotel was a base for Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group, which has played a significant role in Moscow’s campaign in Donbas. A U.S.-made long-range rocket system has helped give Ukraine momentum in the war. 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z As Russia's influence backed by military power spread in Donbas, he told his factories to sound their sirens in protest. Russia's war drains Ukraine's rich list of power 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Russia has justified the conflict by saying that Ukraine persecuted Russian speakers in the eastern Donbas region, which had been partly under the control of Russian-backed separatists since 2014. On New Year’s, Putin slams West for hypocrisy, aggression 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Ukrainian forces are holding their positions against Russian troops in the eastern Donbas region and making small advances in some areas, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday. Russia's Shoigu says victory 'inevitable' in New Year message 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The Ukrainian military has reclaimed swaths of Russian-occupied territory in the country’s northeast and south, and continues to resist persistent Russian attempts to seize all of the industrial Donbas region. Russia launches massive missile barrage across Ukraine 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Putin falsely accuses Kyiv and its Western supporters of carrying out a genocide in Donbas, the wider territory that encompasses the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. ‘Nothing left to destroy’: Russia is fighting for land already in ruins 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Nearly half are in the mineral-rich eastern region known as the Donbas, where a war has been ongoing since 2014, and where the Ukrainians have recently recaptured villages and towns that fell under Russian occupation. Ukraine: A Culture in the Cross Hairs 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z “For years, the Western elites hypocritically assured all of us of their peaceful intentions, including the resolution of the most difficult conflict in the Donbas,” Putin said. On New Year’s, Putin slams West for hypocrisy, aggression 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z They also suggested separate talks on the status of Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula seized by Russia in 2014, and of Donbas, the eastern area claimed by Moscow. Hard-Line Positions by Russia and Ukraine Dim Hope for Peace Talks 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Kreminna is a gateway to two much larger cities nearby, Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, important industrial centers in the Donbas region that fell to Russia after a grueling and costly summer campaign. Ukraine and Russia Battle for a Gateway City in the East 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Ukraine’s Western supporters have imposed unprecedented sanctions aiming to punish Russia for invading and trying to annex Donbas, along with the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, in violation of international law. ‘Nothing left to destroy’: Russia is fighting for land already in ruins 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z “They have their own idea that Ukraine does not exist as a culture,” said Kateryna Iakovlenko, a Ukrainian art historian born in the Donbas region. Ukraine: A Culture in the Cross Hairs 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z It’s one of the most hotly contested places in the fight for the Donbas region. Your Wednesday Briefing: China’s Overwhelmed Hospitals 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Last month, addressing a summit of leaders of the Group of 20 nations, Mr. Zelensky presented a 10-point “formula for peace” that called for Russia’s full withdrawal from Ukrainian territory, including Crimea and Donbas. Hard-Line Positions by Russia and Ukraine Dim Hope for Peace Talks 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has called conquering and annexing the Donbas the heart of the war effort. Ukraine and Russia Battle for a Gateway City in the East 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Capturing the city of Bakhmut, where heavy fighting is now taking place, would give Russia yet another foothold in its push to seize of all of Donbas, D’Anieri said. ‘Nothing left to destroy’: Russia is fighting for land already in ruins 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Standing on the high right bank of the Siverskyi Donets River — the river that gives the Donbas its name — the monastery has faced powerful enemies over the centuries. Ukraine: A Culture in the Cross Hairs 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The occupation of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions will continue but a major Russian breakthrough like a drive from the south to Pavlograd to encircle the Ukrainian forces in the Donbas is less likely. Ukraine war: Five ways conflict could go in 2023 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z "First of all, matters at the front. Bakhmut, Kreminna and other areas in Donbas, which require a maximum of strength and concentration." Ukraine's Zelenskiy: Situation at the front is "difficult and painful" 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z He needs more cannons and shells, along with tanks and planes, as soon as possible, to defeat the Russian army at the ongoing battle of Bakhmut in the Donbas. A thankful, worried Zelenskyy 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z But in some parts of Donbas, there is almost nobody for them to govern. ‘Nothing left to destroy’: Russia is fighting for land already in ruins 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The town had been losing population, like many places in the Donbas region, yet Lyman still invested in its house of culture, putting in new curtains and artwork in 2020. Ukraine: A Culture in the Cross Hairs 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Both sides need a pause but the Ukrainians are better equipped and motivated to keep going, and we can expect them to maintain the pressure, at least in the Donbas. Ukraine war: Five ways conflict could go in 2023 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z On Saturday, fierce fighting continued in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region where Russian troops attacked the strategic town of Bakhmut. Ukraine war: Zelensky delivers defiant Christmas message after Russian strikes 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Zelenskiy noted Ukrainian troops were fighting battles in the eastern Donbas region while others were in exile both home and abroad, having fled the Russians. Ukraine will create its own Christmas miracle, Zelenskiy says in defiant message 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z In other cities in Donbas, where the population has been halved or reduced even further, the critical infrastructure is decimated. ‘Nothing left to destroy’: Russia is fighting for land already in ruins 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z But since 2014 — in the wake of the Maidan revolution, the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas — there had been signs of a growing embrace of the Ukrainian language. Ukraine: A Culture in the Cross Hairs 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Trench warfare has long been a feature of the battle in eastern Ukraine for the Donbas region. In Ukraine, defenses carved into the earth 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Training camps for Russian soldiers are filled with newly mobilized civilians who, after completing training, are sent to fight in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Threat of Invasion From Belarus Low, Says Ukraine Spy Chief 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The White House has expressed alarm about Wagner’s growing involvement in the war as it has been particularly active in the eastern Donbas region. White House: Russia’s Wagner received arms from North Korea 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Many of the people remaining in the western cities of Donbas say life has improved a bit since Russians were forced to fall back in September and October. ‘Nothing left to destroy’: Russia is fighting for land already in ruins 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Monuments commemorating the Maidan revolution and fallen soldiers from the subsequent war in Donbas have been frequently targeted. Ukraine: A Culture in the Cross Hairs 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z "For months, the Russian military has been relying on Wagner to lead combat operations in parts of the Donbas - and in certain instances, Russian military officials are actually subordinate to Wagner's command," the official said. Exclusive: US says Russia's Wagner Group bought North Korean weapons for Ukraine war 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z In the southeast in the Donbas region, Mr. Budanov said, the political ambitions of the leader of a Russian mercenary army called the Wagner Group have partly dictated strategy on the Russian side. Threat of Invasion From Belarus Low, Says Ukraine Spy Chief 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Russia has, since its retreat from Kyiv in April, framed its war aims as taking full control of the eastern Donbas region, of which Donetsk region makes up half, alongside neighbouring Luhansk region. Russia's top military officer says Ukraine front stable, most forces concentrated on Donetsk 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z As a result, Putin annexed Crimea and started a covert war in Donbas, with the thinnest of deniability that it wasn't a Russian-orchestrated war. Putin's brain and the Ukraine disaster: What does the Russian leader really want? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z One, part of a peace plan Zelensky proposed last month, includes Russian withdrawal from all Ukrainian territory it currently occupies, including Crimea and areas of eastern Donbas it seized in 2014. Amid a show of unity, Zelensky and Biden differ on some war needs 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z In our stronghold in the east of Ukraine, in the Donbas. Full Transcript of Zelensky’s Speech Before Congress 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z While capturing Bakhmut is not considered strategically important, it would improve Russia’s position in the east by opening roads to other Donbas cities still under Ukrainian control, he said. Threat of Invasion From Belarus Low, Says Ukraine Spy Chief 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z In recent months Wagner has taken a high profile role in the brutal assault of Bakhmut in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Wagner Group: Putin's not-so-secret army in Ukraine 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Donetsk, controlled by pro-Moscow troops, is in the industrial Donbas region, epicentre of recent bitter fighting between Russia and Ukraine. Ukraine shelling attack injures two top pro-Russia officials in Donetsk - agencies 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z A third level of withdrawal would include Donbas, but not Crimea. Amid a show of unity, Zelensky and Biden differ on some war needs 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Trenches in the Donbas change hands several times a day in fierce combat, and even hand fighting. Full Transcript of Zelensky’s Speech Before Congress 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The medal was the Ukraine hero’s award, which Mr. Zelenskyy said was passed along from a captain in the Ukrainian military fighting in the Donbas region. Hero’s welcome: Biden promises Zelenskky U.S. backing for ‘as long as it takes’ 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The Wagner group, a private military contractor with close ties to the Kremlin, was founded in 2014 after Russia seized and annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and sparked a separatist insurgency in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Exclusive: Biden to hammer Russia's Wagner group with tougher export curbs -sources 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Over the past six months, Ukrainian forces have slowed Russia’s advance in the Donbas in the east, reclaimed a large swath of land in the northeast, and gained control of Kherson, a major southern city. As Ukraine Readies for a Second Year at War, Prospect of Stalemate Looms 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Russian forces were trying to encircle the city, 380 miles east of Kyiv, in their broader goal of seizing all of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Ukraine's Zelensky set to address Congress in first foreign trip since Russian invasion 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The besieged city is central to the fight to control all of the Donbas. Your Wednesday Briefing: Zelensky Visits Bakhmut 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Ukraine’s success at retaining control of the city in the eastern Donbas region has lent it a symbolism that outstrips its military significance. Lauding Their Soldiers, Putin and Zelensky Signal Long Fight Ahead 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The battle for Bakhmut, in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, has turned into one of the bloodiest campaigns of the war. Zelensky visits the battleground city of Bakhmut, aiming to show Ukraine’s resolve. 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Their current push in Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region is limited, designed to secure better positions from which to defend against a Ukrainian counterattack. As Ukraine Readies for a Second Year at War, Prospect of Stalemate Looms 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z “The occupiers actually destroyed Bakhmut, another Donbas city that the Russian army turned into burnt ruins,” he said. Ukraine’s president visits front-line city in country’s east 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Lying on the frontline that bisects Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, taking Bakhmut would move Russia a step closer to full control of the Donbas, parts of which have been controlled by Russian proxies since 2014. Analysis: Grim battle for Bakhmut may yield only pyrrhic victory for Russia 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The surrender that was caught on the video released in November and geo-located by military analysts to the eastern Donbas region was an accident of sorts, Mr. Yatsenko said. Surrender to a Drone? Ukraine Is Urging Russian Soldiers to Do Just That. 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Zelensky has repeatedly spoken about that the “very difficult” situation in parts of Donbas, with the fighting around Bakhmut particularly vicious. Zelensky visits the battleground city of Bakhmut, aiming to show Ukraine’s resolve. 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Most of the attacks came in the Donbas area of eastern Ukraine, the only section of the front line where the Russian army is regularly staging offensive attacks. Ukraine Says Russia Is Training Soldiers for Possible New Offensive 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z The offensive could come in the eastern Donbas region, in the south, or even towards Kyiv, senior generals say. Ukraine war: Kyiv says Russia planning major ground offensive in new year 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Russian-backed proxies said Ukrainian forces had launched their "most massive strike" on the centre of occupied Donetsk since 2014, when the separatists triggered a conflict by seizing parts of the Donbas region. Ukraine war: Deadly attack leaves retaken Kherson with no power 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Trench warfare has long been a feature of the battle for the Donbas region, in the eastern part of the country. Your Thursday Briefing 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Shortly after Russia invaded, the Chicago Council-Levada research showed Russians generally viewed the conflict as a defense of Russian speakers or others in Donbas. Most Russians support peace talks but reject return of Crimea, poll finds 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z In addition, supplies of military equipment have been ferried by Russian forces from Belarus to their troops in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Belarus says it is checking its army’s combat readiness. Analysts see little chance it will join Russia’s fight. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z "It may start not in Donbas, but in the direction of Kyiv, in the direction of Belarus, I do not rule out the southern direction as well," he said. Ukraine war: Kyiv says Russia planning major ground offensive in new year 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z The Kremlin says it will not withdraw troops from Ukraine before the end of the year unless Kyiv acknowledges the legitimacy of recent votes carried out by Russia-backed separatists in the country’s embattled Donbas region. Kremlin: No withdrawal from Ukraine before end of year 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z The latest fighting has focused in the eastern Donbas, comprised of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, particularly around the city of Bakhmut. Ukraine PM urges more military aid to counter Russia attacks 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Seventy-eight percent of Russians said it would be unacceptable to return Crimea to Ukraine, while 66 percent said the same of the eastern Donbas region, which remains occupied by Russian forces and their Ukrainian allies. Most Russians support peace talks but reject return of Crimea, poll finds 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z For eight years, the fate of Crimea was overshadowed by the war in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region that was stoked by pro-Russian separatists. Fierce claims to Crimea highlight slim chance of Russia-Ukraine peace deal 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z The situation in key areas of the Donbas front in eastern Ukraine remains very difficult, but Kyiv's forces are repelling Russian attacks and inflicting significant losses, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday. Germany's Scholz says strong immigration may secure population boost to 90 million 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z “The occupiers actually destroyed Bakhmut, another Donbas city that the Russian army turned into burnt ruins.” Russia grinds on in eastern Ukraine; Bakhmut ‘destroyed’ 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z |
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