The battle of Donbas was a military offensive that was part of the wider eastern Ukraine campaign of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The offensive began on 18 April 2022 between the armed forces of Russia and Ukraine for control of the Donbas region. Military analysts consider the campaign to have been the second strategic phase of the invasion, after Russia's initial three-pronged attack into Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers guard a military base in Novoluhanske, 19 February 2022
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy greets soldiers of the 24th Mechanized Brigade in the Donbas on 5 June 2022
Destroyed Russian pontoon bridge and vehicles near Bilohorivka during the battle of the Siverskyi Donets.
President Zelenskyy with the 24th Mechanized Brigade near the front line in the Donbas on 5 June 2022
Ukraine's easternmost oblasts, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv, are the site of a theatre of operation in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Image: Russian bombing of Mariupol (3to 4)
Image: Mariupol Drama Theatre Destroyed 2 (3to 4)
Image: Окупанти вдарили «Точкою У» по залізничному вокзалу Краматорська 03 (3to 4)
Image: Destruction of Russian tanks by Ukrainian troops in Mariupol (2)
