Donbas

Russian President Vladimir Putin officially annexed the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, known together as the Donbas in eastern Ukraine, along with two other regions. In a ceremony at the Kremlin on Friday, September 30th, he pronounced that the regions...

Vladimir Putin declared four regions of eastern Ukraine to be a part of Russia in a major policy speech at the Kremlin on Friday. He claimed that the people of the four Ukrainian regions he's planning to annex made their...

Ukraine confirmed on Monday that Russia has started a massive offensive to establish full control over the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. "We can now confirm that Russian troops have begun the battle for the Donbas, which they have...

Russian President Vladimir Putin stimulated the nationalist fervor of tens of thousands of Russians as he appeared in a Moscow rally on Friday hailing the "special operation" in Ukraine. Speaking in a rare public appearance at the Luzhniki stadium he...

Heavyweight boxers the Klitschko brothers vowed to fight for Ukraine on Friday after the Russian invasion reached the capital of their country. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko and his brother, Wladimir Klitschko, who had offered their services to their country at...

Ukraine's Army and Russia-backed rebels have accused each other of opening fire in separate incidents in the eastern part of Ukraine. Ukrainian defense officials have accused the rebels in Donbas of shelling a village in the Ukraine-controlled area. "The Russian occupation...