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Donbas, Ukraine and Putin

What is Ukraine's Donbas region, and why is it so important to Putin in Trump talks?

For more than a decade, the industrial heartland of eastern Ukraine has been the focal point of intense battles and diplomatic disputes between Kyiv and the Kremlin. Now it could be on the table in peace talks with the United States.

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Donbas: The object of Putin’s desire and the crux of the war in Ukraine

Ukraine’s Donbas region, consisting of Donetsk and Luhansk, is at the heart of Moscow’s goals. An industrial powerhouse in the Soviet era, it also has rich farmland, important rivers and a coastline on the Sea of Azov.

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Why does Russia want Ukraine’s Donbas region?

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants any settlement to end the war to include giving Russia full control of the Donbas

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Giving Putin the Donbas would hand Moscow powerful leverage over Kyiv’s financial survival

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejects Russian President Vladimir Putin's demands to cede the Donbas region, citing ...

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Why Donetsk matters so much for Ukraine's defences

For Ukraine to withdraw from western Donetsk would mean the grievous loss not just of land, with the prospect of a new exodus ...

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Putin ‘won’t give up on trying to destroy’ us, Ukraine’s former foreign minister warns

The White House says that Vladimir Putin told President Trump that he would meet with the man whose country Russia invaded, ...

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Why does Putin want the Donbas? How ‘fortress belt’ region scarred by 11yrs of war is tyrant’s top prize in peace talks

PUTIN laid his cards on the table when he declared that he wants the whole of Ukraine’s Donbas region in exchange for peace.

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