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Donbas
- War in DonbasOn the 12th of April 2014, a heavily armed unit led by Russian citizen Igor Girkin seized the town of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine.
- Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblastsVast regions to the north of the Black Sea were once known as the Wild Fields. In the 15th century, the entire area of the northern coast came under the…
- DonbasIn 1676, the first town of Solanoye rose from the steppe to exploit newly discovered rock-salt reserves. This settlement marked the beginning of permanent…
- 2014 pro-Russian unrest in UkraineOn the 21st of November 2013, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign an association agreement with the European Union.