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The conflict led to a vast exodus from the Donbas: half the region's population were forced to flee their homes. [77] A UN OHCHR report released on 3 March 2016 stated that, since the conflict broke out in 2014, the Ukrainian government registered 1.6 million internally displaced people who had fled the Donbas to other parts of Ukraine. [78]
The war in Donbas, [c] also known as the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the Donbas region of Ukraine. The war began in April 2014, when a commando unit headed by Russian citizen Igor Girkin seized Sloviansk in Donetsk oblast. [20] [21] [6] [22] The Ukrainian military launched an operation against them.
Successive attempts to resolve the ongoing war in the Donbas region of Ukraine had seen no result by the start of February 2015. [30] While the Minsk Protocol of 5 September 2014 did significantly reduce fighting in the conflict zone for many months, minor skirmishes continued.
Open source data and battlefield reports indicate that Russian forces in Donbas advanced in August at their fastest rate in about two years, though Ukraine also seized a chunk of the Kursk region ...
Most of the protests were in the Donbas region. A national survey held in March–April 2014 found that 58% of respondents in the Donbas wanted more autonomy within Ukraine, while 31% wanted the region to separate from Ukraine. [41] Russia used the protests to launch a campaign of political warfare, information warfare, and irregular warfare ...
ON THE ROAD TO KYIV, Ukraine — For weeks Ukraine and its western allies have been waiting for Russia’s promised offensive in the Donbas — an eastern region of the country that borders Russia ...
[65] Although majorities in all regions voted to be part of an independent Ukraine during the 1991 referendum, former Czech president Václav Klaus, said that Ukraine was an artificially created state, and that Ukraine was in a state of civil war. [66]
A Ukrainian artillery crew fires towards Russian infantry in Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 24, 2024. - Ivan Antypenko/Suspilne Ukraine/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images.