As leaders of Russia, Ukraine, the United States and Europe met to discuss a possible Russia-Ukraine war endgame, one part of Ukraine drew increasing attention: the Donbas, an industrial region in the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is once again trying to seize through political backchanneling what he has failed to capture by force. According to the Financial Times (FT), Putin once again is ...

As negotiations over a potential deal to end the war in Ukraine intensify, much of the discussion has centered around a part of the country’s east that has long been at the heart of Russia’s goals.

History likes its twists. In February 2023, we posited that Russian President Vladmir Putin was intent on becoming the Don of the Donbas. Fast forward to today, and Putin has competition. President ...

Trump has suggested Ukraine might need to cede parts of the Donbas region to Russia to end the war. The Donbas, Ukraine's industrial heartland, has been a focal point of Russian aggression due to its ...

If Russia gains control of Donbas as part of a peace deal, it will then certainly continue to seize all of Ukraine, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas said this ...

Whichever side in the Russo-Ukrainian War wins the Donbas loses the war. That is the savage and largely unacknowledged irony at the core of the struggle over the Donbas — a territory that has recently ...

It is misleading when Western governments and the Western media say that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has not made compromises and is unwilling to negotiate. Though Russia has not changed its ...

Serhii Korovayny has many warm memories of the Donbas, the region in eastern Ukraine where he spent his childhood. The photographer remembers picnics and soccer and learning how to swim in the Sea of ...