2025-02-14 13:22:49
Donbas region was not an independent republic, it was a part of Ukraine (Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts) when Russian troops and pro-Russian separatists started the war against Ukraine in April 2014. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(0-0-0) Author
2025-02-15 01:26:07
Russia invaded the Donbas region Ukraine in 2014, so the claim of civil war is not accurate. There was no Donbas republic, but the Russian puppet republics Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR). They did not control all of Donbas before Feb 2022. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(0-0-0) Author