MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. The Defence Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic has reported no ceasefire violations last night, a ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
DONETSK, February 24. /TASS/. Militias of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's republic on Tuesday morning started a full-scale heavy weaponry withdrawal from the separation line, the DPR's Defence Ministry spokesman, Eduard Basurin, said.
KIEV, Jan 21, 2015 (AFP) - Fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk overnight in the country's east killed at least five civilians and wounded 29, officials said Wednesday ahead of high-stakes peace talks in Berlin.
DONETSK, Ukraine, Nov 12, 2014 (AFP) - Heavy artillery fire on Wednesday rocked east Ukraine's main rebel bastion of Donetsk in the fiercest fighting around the city in days, an AFP journalist said.
DONETSK, Ukraine, Nov 09, 2014 (AFP) - Intense artillery fighting broke out early Sunday in the separatist bastion of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, according to AFP journalists in the area.
Chief executives of recently self-proclaimed Donetsk people's republic will not hold in this Ukrainian region country's presidential elections slated on May 25, co-chairman of the Donetsk people's republic presidium Denis Pushilin told Itar-Tass.
Ukrainian parliament-appointed Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has warned about "tough response actions" against those who have seized a police station in Slavyansk, the Donetsk
region.
Pro-Russian activists who seised the main administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk proclaimed Monday the creation of a sovereign "people's republic" independent of Kiev rule.