Donetsk Oblast Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
oblast of Ukraine
About Donetsk Oblast
From a traveller's point of view, the region is an active war zone between Ukraine and Russia.This is not a political endorsement of claims by any side in the dispute. The eastern and southern parts of the Russian-majority oblast declared its independence from Ukraine in 2014 as Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), following the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the Euromaidan protests in which Ukraine's pro-Russiangovernment was overthrown by pro-EUprotesters. The situation in Eastern Ukraine was until 2022 considered to be a "frozen conflict", similar to other post-Soviet breakaway states such as Artsakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, and its sister nation, the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR). The DPR and the Ukrainian government estimated that around 1,870,000 people (2014) — over
Donetsk Oblast Travel Guide Sections
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