How to pronounce“donbas”in English

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 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,

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,

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.

So apart from the Crimea, Donbas was the part of Ukraine where the ethnic Russians were

They showed that, when the Donbas, when they voted 90 to 10 to leave and go to Russia,

basically big industrial areas like the northeast of England and places like Donbas were built up at the same time, often by the same sets of industrialists.

And as you see the Russians saying, "We want the Donbas!"

It's not just Kyiv, it's Kharkiv, even Donbas, Kherson.

- So for Putin, the war on Donbas and even in 2022 is a defensive war against

And if you've not been to Donbas, it would be difficult or to the Crimea it would be difficult

The war and loss of the Crimea and partial loss of Donbas, of it's major industrial areas

- The east and the west was not already such an issue after Crimea and part of Donbas being gone.

And it's also a melting pot, which is the problems that the Donbas has experienced over, you know, the last 30 years,

And I think that that's kind of what we've really seen in the case of Donbas.

Also, in 2014, on the war front, Russia annexed Crimea and war broke out in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine,

But anyway, to the overextension issue, while Vladimir Putin has been chasing the Donbas, he has watched Syria go down, and his friend Bashar

Uh, and in 2014, that's when Crimea was annexed basically, et cetera, parts of the Donbas, the, um--

And one of the things that, I don't know if you remember when Putin went into the Donbas, John Kerry said, he was Secretary of State,

I feel like we're playing a little bit retrospectively saying that like, well, it's obvious that they're not gonna capture the Donbas.

Now, the miners of County Durham had very interestingly had exchanges and ties with the miners of Donbas going back to the 1920s.

And in 1984, when the miners strike took place, the miners of Donbas, along with other miners from famous coal regions like Ruhr Valley,