How to pronounce“donba”in English

Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine.

Donbas being Eastern Ukraine.

Donbas that it demands Ukraine to capitulate without a fight, it's not just um a emotional or human issue.

Donbass to Kiev. Yeah, that's right. People here making really unimaginable decisions because of

But Donbas became a site, one of the key sites in the Russian empire of early industrialization, and its mining industry with mythological industry.

And Donbas is a classical rust belt.

So Donbas is probably the most dramatic and tragic case of implosion of the rust belt with the mines not anymore producing the sort of,

of Donbas, Crimea and Southern Ukraine, the areas that now are included in the Russian Constitution.

the Donbass seized the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk and declared them independent from Ukraine.

the Donbass. One is um he can't do it constitutionally without a referendum.

The frontline was near Donbas.

Now the story of Donbas and what happened now is multidimensional.

And Donetsk in the Donbas region used to be called Hughesovka because it was established by a Welsh industrialists who brought in miners from Wales to help, you know,

like the mines and Donbas in the 1920s, Trotskyites and, you know, kind of Leninists and, you know, communists.

We talked about Donbas before about being a kind of melting pot when, you know, they tried the same thing in Donbas, Donetsk, Luhansk,

part of Donbas in eastern Ukraine.

cede much of the Donbas and withdraw from parts of Donetsk they still hold.

of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.

having all of the Donbass and remember that you know it held these referendum referendums in these oblasts and I was saying that they've voted to become part

town in uh eastern Donbas region, which I think is gone, its um strategic

also withdrawing from Donbass would mean abandoning control of the so-called

such as um uh conquering the entire Donbas for and for additional regions

so-called hybrid warfare in Donbas.

So that's not exactly part of Donbas, but that gives you general idea.

there was none of such mobilizations in Donbas before Gerkin and other people with military,

in eastern Ukraine in the Donbas,

And so thanks to the miners of Donbas and this money that was deposited with the miners of County Durham, the Durham Miners Association,

surrender the rest of the eastern Donbas, land Ukraine's troops have been defending for years.

forces from uh the eastern region of Donbas.

Russia wants the herd of the Donbass. Ukraine's not going to give that up.

the remaining territory in the Donbas, in East the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, that Russia has been unable to seize militarily in 4 years of war.

Ukrainians to seed the territory in the Donbas, which is something that President Zelensky has said Ukraine is not prepared to do.

the the remaining part of the eastern Donbass region which Russia mostly occupies. What is also significant is the timing of these claims. You've got

remaining 20% of the eastern Donbass region which for Ukraine is uh an

the the remaining part of the eastern Donbass region which Russia mostly occupies. What is also significant is the timing of these claims. You've got

the fighting around Slavansk and around uh that area of the Donba.

Russia was not really looking forward to taking possession of Donbas, Donbas was viewed as the way

- Maybe you can tell me about the region of Donbas.

On that principle, Donbas, where the majority constituted by the beginning

That's how Kryuchkov and his family came to Donbas, the family of Brezhnev overshoot a little bit.

what the Ukrainian government is doing against ethnically Russian people of Donbas.

in Crimea, in Donbas, without Russian presence, without Russian occupation de facto of the Crimea,

The same thing was true in most of the Donbas, right, in Luhansk and Donetsk.

They are trying to force Ukraine to leave Donbas, to leave our territories.

Ukrainian military had been facing off against the Russians in Donbas.

and it's there in 2023 uh in the Donbas.

largely in the east of the country in the Donbas region where the fighting has been focused on for for the last several years.

that 20% of their own country giving up parts of the Donbas that

don't even control the whole of the Donbass. That is what Putin wants. And that is why the Russians haven't been engaged around the table so far is