How to pronounce“donbass”in English

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

the Donbass.

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

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

Crimea and parts of Donbass.

Russia wants the herd of the Donbass.

the the remaining part of the eastern Donbass region which Russia mostly occupies.

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.

don't even control the whole of the Donbass.

for Ukraine to resist and and to hold the line in Donbass?

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

that stage about taking o over the whole of the Donbass in order to move back and

but not really Russian and then other areas of the Donbass which are not occupied by Russian soldiers would be Russian.

there the the the Harkid province but also uh in the Donbass region in Dets

that it would not take over all of the Donbass, that could be a first point where you see the two sides move closer towards negotiations.

Uh her husband died three years ago in the fighting for the Donbass.

is still insisting that it wants to uh take from Ukraine parts of the eastern Donbass region that it has failed to take through fighting on the

substantive breakthrough that they've shared yet as to what would happen with the Donbass region that we just heard about in our report.

demilitarized zone or a an economic zone of some sort in in Donbass, but it's

neighboring Daetsk, which together make up the Donbass.

full control of the two regions um that called collectively are called the Donbass um in eastern Ukraine.

So, people uh from the Donbass, as you mentioned, a woman called Natalyia, a widow, a war widow who we met a couple of days ago here in

Uh she and her family are from the Donbass Donbass, a town called Slavansk.

essentially amounts to the same thing that Ukrainians will have to pull back from from their positions currently held in Donbass.

repeatedly rejected Russian demands to give up the regions of Luhansk and Detsk known as the Donbass.

Um but then it says the rest of the Donbass region,

from the first draft of the plan were seen as the demand that Ukraine gives up more territory in the Donbass and limits the size of its armed forces.

about 20% of Ukraine, including much of the eastern Donbass region.

Moscow's been demanding, including giving up the entire Donbass region,

clearly rejected by Ukraine in the past by President Zilinski, such as giving up the entire Donbass, um, uh, not allowing foreign troops into

uh and there is no way that Ukraine is going to accept to hand over the part of the Donbass.

a very very sensitive question uh in which Russia is pushing to be handed territory in the Donbass which it hasn't won through the

core issue is territory and there's no agreement on territory there's no agreement about Ukraine giving up its positions in in the Donbass, which it

uh he was very clear that Russia have certainly been asking for the Donbass region as part of the

Well, security guarantees remain one of the key sticking points to any deal, as is Moscow's insistence that Ukraine hands over the whole of the Donbass,

Um the two big sticking points are one, Russia wants the whole of the Donbass.

So some bits of the Donbass would be occupied by Russian soldiers

Those proposals would reportedly require Ukraine to make sweeping concessions, including completely withdrawing from the eastern Donbass

The problem is the Russian demand of course that Russia takes all of the Donbass region and that

minimum, I think, for Moscow to get control of the whole of the Donbass.