Donetsk People's Republic
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The Donetsk People's Republic is a disputed republic of Russia with a capital in Donetsk, established on an illegally annexed part of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. The DPR was created in 2014 whe
Pro-Russian separatists taking down the Ukrainian flag and raising the Russian flag at the Donetsk regional government headquarters, 1 March 2014
Pro-Russian protest in Donetsk, 6 April 2014. Pictured are flags of Russia, the Donbas People's Militia, the Russian Empire, and the Eurasian Youth Union.
The occupied Donetsk RSA building on 4 May 2014
Sloviansk city council under the control of heavily armed men on 14 April 2014
From the end of February 2014, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, which resulted in the ousting of Russian-leaning Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, demonstrations
Euromaidan demonstration in Kyiv, January 2014
Anti-Maidan in Kyiv, 14 December 2013
Russian "little green men" during the seizure of Perevalne military base, 9 March 2014
Pro-Russian protest in Donetsk, 6 April 2014. Pictured are flags of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Empire, and the Eurasian Youth Union.