war in donbass

The War in Eastern Ukraine, or the War in Donbas, is a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian war from April 2014 to February 2022, initiated by Rossian militants who invaded the territory of the Ukrainian part of Donbas in April 2014 after Russia's illegal seizure of Crimea, a series of pro-Russian demonstrations in Ukraine, and the proclamation of "state sovereignty" of the DPR and LPR. The conflict was international in nature. In terms of geographical scale, it was local and covered parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.