Inasmuch as Russia has occupied most of the industrial basin known as the Donbas since its first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 ...

Vladimir Putin has long tried to change Ukraine’s borders, even before Russia’s February 2022 invasion. It could now happen ...

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

The second Oval Office meeting in six months between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ...

Residents of Kyiv closely monitored meetings between Zelenskyy, Trump, and European leaders, as the US president hopes for ...

As negotiations to end the Ukraine war intensify, the focus is on the Donbas question between Russia and Ukraine, a ...

At a recent meeting with his US counterpart, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again suggested that full control of Donbas was a central criterion for ending the war in Ukraine. Why is the region ...

Russian troops currently control about 20% of Ukrainian territory, but the Ukrainian constitution forbids giving up territory ...

The future of Ukraine’s industrial heartland in the east of the country is uncertain, after Vladimir Putin reportedly demanded it be handed to Russia during his meeting with Donald Trump in Alaska on ...

Kyiv sees Russia’s proposed Donbas takeover as a capitulation that would reward Putin’s violent ambitions and lay the groundwork for future attacks on the rest of the country.

The US president says Russia's Vladimir Putin would face a "rough situation" if he doesn't co-operate in the peace process.