Back Volksrepubliek Donetsk AF Republica Popular de Donetsk AN جمهورية دونيتسك الشعبية Arabic جمهورية دونيتسك الشعبيه ARZ Donetsk Xalq Respublikası AZ دونتسک خالق جومهوریتی AZB Донецк Халыҡ Республикаһы BA Данецкая Народная Рэспубліка BE Данецкая народная рэспубліка BE-X-OLD Донецка народна република Bulgarian
Donetsk People's Republic Донецкая Народная Республика (Russian) | |||||||||
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| 2014–2022 | |||||||||
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| Anthem: Национальный гимн Донецкой Народной Республики National anthem of Donetsk People's Republic | |||||||||
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| Status | Unrecognised puppet state of Russia | ||||||||
| Capital | Donetsk | ||||||||
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• Head of the Donetsk People's Republic | Denis Pushilin | ||||||||
• Prime minister | Vitaliy Khotsenko | ||||||||
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• Unrecognized independence from Ukraine | 12 may 2014 | ||||||||
• Annexation by Russia | 30 september 2022 | ||||||||
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The Donetsk People’s Republic was a partially recognised country in the Donbas region of Ukraine. It is now a region in Russia.
When the War in Donbas started in 2014, a few hundred pro-Russian separatists declared that the Donetsk Oblast was an independent country.
Donetsk Oblast is all to the east of Ukraine, at the border with Russia. In both parts, there are many ethnic Russians. Russia aided the start of these non-recognised states.