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Five people are wounded in a mass stabbing at Dam Square in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The suspect, 30-year-old Ukrainian citizen from Donetsk is arrested by police, and is being investigated with having a terrorist motive.
2025-03-27

Ukrainian forces reportedly shell the administration headquarters of the Donetsk People's Republic in separatist-held Donetsk, killing three people, according to pro-Russian officials.
2022-08-23

The Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic order mandatory mass evacuations of civilians from their respective capital cities, Donetsk and Luhansk. Around 700,000 people are expected to be evacuated to Russia with the first buses carrying civilians to the Russian border already travelling to Rostov Oblast. Russian President Vladimir Putin orders lump-sum allowances of 10,000 rubles (130 US dollars) to be paid to refugees from Donbas.
2022-02-18

Two Ukrainian soldiers are killed by separatists in the Donetsk region, after intense artillery shelling by pro-Russian militants which began overnight.
2021-09-12

The leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, is killed in a blast at a café in Donetsk.
2018-08-31

Luhansk People's Republic officials in Donetsk tell U.N. agencies and several other international NGOs to leave the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine. Despite the Minsk Protocol and Minsk II peace agreements low intensity fighting and shelling have continued non-stop in the region for over a year.
2015-09-24

The Government of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists call off peace talks that were to be held in Minsk.
2015-01-30

A huge explosion occurs in a rubber factory in the rebel held city of Donetsk with the Russian media claiming it was caused by a missile. The Government of Ukraine denies the charges.
2014-10-20

Alexander Zakharchenko, self-proclaimed prime minister of the Donetsk People's Republic rebellion, calls for a truce on humanitarian grounds after admitting Ukrainian government forces had surrounded the main insurgent stronghold of Donetsk.
2014-08-9