donetsk in English

noun
1
a city in the Donets Basin in Ukraine; population 974,600 (est. 2009). The city was called Yuzovka 1872–1924, and Stalin or Stalino 1924–61.

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1. A large pro-government rally in Donetsk city marched in protest against the violence in Donetsk Oblast, and the attempted assassination of Kharkiv mayor Hennadiy Kernes on 28 April.

2. Zakharchenko was appointed "military commandant of Donetsk" on 16 May 2014.

3. Head of the Administration of the Council of Ministers of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.

4. There are 2 nearby reservoirs: Nyzhnekalmius (60 ha), and the "Donetsk Sea" (206 ha).

5. Former Head of the Administration of the Council of Ministers of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.

6. Starting Mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in Donetsk Oblast; including Avdiivka.

7. The first leader of the party was the mayor of Donetsk, Volodymyr Rybak.

8. Carp made his way through the youth system of the Ukrainian football club FC Shakhtar Donetsk.

9. Responsible for the separatist security activities of the so called ‘government of the Donetsk People' s Republic’

10. By 15 April, however, the Ukrainian transitional government had launched a counter-offensive against insurgents in Donetsk Oblast.

11. Responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so called ‘government of the Donetsk People' s Republic’

12. On 10 January 2010, Costa signed a five-year contract with Shakhtar Donetsk in a deal worth €6 million.

13. A so-called "Peace March" was held in the Donbass Arena in Donetsk city, accompanied by cars sounding their horns at noon.

14. The Donetsk coal was necessary for smelting pig-iron from the Kryvyi Rih ore, producing a need for a railway to connect Yozovka with Kryvyi Rih.

15. An entrenched standoff between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists affiliated with the Donetsk People's Republic took place from 12 April until 5 July 2014.

16. In her capacity of former so-called ‘Minister of Foreign Affairs’ she was responsible for defending the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’, thus undermining the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.

17. After the destruction of the remaining Hungarian and Italian forces during the Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh Offensive, Operation Star and Operation Gallop were launched to recapture Kharkov and Kursk and to cut off all German forces east of Donetsk.

18. The Siege of Sloviansk was an operation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to recapture the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast from pro-Russian insurgents who had seized it on 12 April 2014.

19. Crime rates in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics remain alarmingly high, especially outside large cities. Armed bandits operate there and, taking advantage of failures in ensuring law and order, solve their own problems, mostly of a pecuniary nature.