Tag: Donbas

Russia proclaimed victory in the battle of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine after several months of broiling as Ukraine withdrew from the city citing it as a tactical measure. The city will be handed over to the Russian-backed Luhansk People's Republic, a region declared independent by Russia. The Donbas region close to the Russian border has its own significance. The region is made of two cities, Donetsk and Luhansk. It has the largest coal reserves in Ukraine. Unprecedentedly separating from the Ukrainian government in 2014, the two cities claimed their independence as two People's Republics. Russian-speaking people in the Donbas region held a belief in line with how Ukraine felt during the USSR's reign. Ukrainians had no strategic autonomy and the system was rather centralised. T...