Luhansk Oblast is located in eastern Ukraine. Luhansk Oblast (Ukrainian: Луганська область, translit. Манифест", "Решение о создании "Донецкой народной республики" отменено", "Ukraine forces retake Kharkiv building, pro-Russians hold out elsewhere", "Pro-Russian terrorists build barricades at Donetsk city hall", "Граждане России продолжают митинговать в Донецке за отделение Донбасса", "Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine – Monday, 14 April 2014", "Separatists in Donetsk decided to release several floors", "Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine (Dispatch Twenty Three)", "Донецкий сепаратист Пушилин: нас объединяет русский мир", "Putin: Troops have pulled back from Ukraine border", "Баркашов советует "впарить" Донецку итоги референдума", "Terrorist Organization Profile – START – National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism", "SBU Audio Links Donetsk Republic to Russian Involvement", "Пленных сотрудников Альфы обменяли на трех лидеров сепаратистов – СБУ", "Marine Le Pen's Closest Advisor Comes Out of the Shadows in Donetsk", "German neo-Nazi demonstrators with a Kremlin-backed militant cause", "Ukraine says Donetsk 'anti-terror operation' under way", "Ukraine crisis: Deal to 'de-escalate' agreed in Geneva", "U.S. and Russia Agree on Pact to Defuse Ukraine Crisis", "Eastern Ukraine's Pro-Russian Activists Stand Fast", "Separatists in Ukraine Vow to Proceed With Autonomy Vote", "2 southeast Ukrainian regions to hold referendum May 11 as planned", "Russia Keeps Its Distance After Ukraine Secession Referendums", "Ukraine: Donetsk polling stations gear up for Sunday referendum", "Russia Calls for 'Civilized Implementation' of East Ukraine Referendum Results", "Donetsk People's Republic asks Moscow to consider its accession into Russia", "Ukraine rebels say they are willing to talk peace with Kiev", "Russian Rebels Seeking Total Independence from Ukraine", Truce in Ukraine violated, but holding for now, "ANALYSIS: Donetsk and Luhansk propose amendments to Ukraine's Constitution", "Ukraine conflict: Poroshenko calls for UN peacekeepers", "Russian-backed 'Novorossiya' breakaway movement collapses", "Ukraine is divided over constitutional reform", "Ukraine's parliament avoids implementation of Minsk agreements", "Ex-Professor Upsets Ukraine Politics, and Russia Peace Accord", "Separatists Launch New "Passportization" Strategy in Eastern Ukraine", "Pro-Russian rebel leader killed in eastern Ukraine blast", "Prominent rebel warlord Arseny 'Motorola' Pavlov dies in Donetsk blast", "Separatist commander Mikhail Tolstykh, 'Givi', killed in eastern Ukraine", "How relations between Ukraine and Russia should look like? [25][27] In the February 2015 Battle of Debaltseve DPR with the help of LPR and Russia (Claimed by Ukraine) gained territory around and including the city of Debaltseve. Its administrative center is Luhansk. [237] Jehovah's Witnesses have also faced widespread discrimination. [201] The Sim cards of Feniks display the slogan "Connection for the victory".

[119], In a poll conducted in August 2015, with 6500 respondents from 19 cities of the Donetsk Oblast, only 29% supported the DPR and 10% considered themselves to be "Russian patriots".

However soon after the battle of Stalingrad, in the spring of 1943 Luhansk region (at that time Voroshilovgrad) once again became center of military operations during the Soviet counter-offensive operation Little Saturn. The Donetsk News Agency reported in August that the DPR exported some 19 billion rubles ($256 mln) worth of industrial goods in the first half of 2020. [118] A DPR leader said that its forces were indeed shelling from residential areas (mentioning school 41 specifically), but that "the punishment of the enemy is everyone's shared responsibility". [106] (Another) well known DPR military commander Mikhail Tolstykh was killed by an explosion while working in his Donetsk office on 8 February 2017. 6 February 2020, "Ukraine: pro-Russia separatists set for victory in eastern region referendum", "Численность населения Донецкой Народной Республики на 1 января 2018 года", "South Ossetia recognises independence of Donetsk People's Republic", "Ten Things You Should Know about Russian Involvement in Ukraine", "Database and Video Overview of the Russian Weaponry in the Donbas", Ukraine crisis: Russian troops crossed border, Nato says, Putin defends rebel leaders in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine conflict: Front-line troops begin pullout, "Ukraine's prosecutor general classifies self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk republics as terrorist organizations", "Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements", "Donetsk People's Republic Will Never Be Part of Ukraine – Leader", "Minsk agreement on Ukraine crisis: text in full". Most in Donetsk believed that the disarmament and disbanding of illegal radical groups was crucial to preserving national unity. [171], According to the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine a number of local mutinies are taken place due to unpaid wages and pensions, the Council claims that on 24 November 2014 the local "Women Resistance Battalion" presented to Zakharchenko an ultimatum to get out of Donetsk in two months. [9], The DPR declared its independence after the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, alongside the LPR and the Republic of Crimea. The results of the referendums were not officially recognised by any government, including those of Ukraine, the United States, the countries of the European Union, and Russia. [109] Meanwhile, the previous favorable view of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the DPR press was replaced by with personal accusations of “genocide” and "crimes against Donbas", and proposals of organizing a tribunal against him in absentia. [196][197][198] On 2 July 2015, Ukrainian Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn announced that he "did not expect" that Ukraine would supply natural gas to territory controlled by separatist troops in the 2015–2016 heating season. [30], In November 2019 separatist parliament passed a law on state border, whereby theoretically laid claim to entire Donetsk Oblast,[31] but also stipulated that "pending conflict resolution" the self-proclaimed polity's border will run along line of engagement instead.[32]. [238][239] The new law caused the dissatisfaction of Metropolitan Hilarion of Donetsk and Mariupol of the Moscow Patriarchate church. [154], Political parties active in the DPR include Donetsk Republic, the Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic, Free Donbass and the New Russia Party. [171] Early October 2014 Zakharchenko had stated "The economy will be completely, if possible, oriented towards the Russian market. [245] The News of Donbass reported that members of the Donbass People's Militia engaged in assaults and robbery on the Romani (also known as Roma or gypsies) population of Sloviansk.

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After the invasion by Nazi Germany in 1941 the region came under a German military administration, due to its proximity to frontlines. [269] Ukrainian language lessons were decreased from around eight hours a week to two hours; while the time devoted to Russian language and literature lessons were increased.

[180][181] In August 2016 Igor Plotnitsky, head of LPR, was seriously injured in a car bombing attack in Luhansk. [26] In an August 2014 pro-Russian counter-offensive the Donetsk People's Republic, with the help of Russian troops and arms, reclaimed some of the lost territory. [236][237] Members of a Gospel Church were forcibly dispersed at gunpoint by Donetsk insurgents on 23 May. [128] This led to an increase of supplies (of more expensive products and those of lower quality) from Russia. Furthermore, 40.8% of Donetsk citizens support rallies for Ukraine's unity, while 26.5% support rallies which are pro-Russia. Much of the territory on the Azov Sea north to Sviatohirsk and Sloviansk near the border with Kharkiv Oblast was brought under control of the Government of Ukraine in the early July 2014 post-ceasefire government offensive[25] and the area under the control of the rebels was mainly reduced to Donetsk city.

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