A town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, on the Donets river.
Used in a Sentence
donetsk
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for donetsk.
Editorial note
Maybe you could move to Crimea or Donetsk Republic and get NAF to be your personal bodyguards.
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Quick take
A town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, on the Donets river.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of donetsk gathered in one view.
(city and raion) A city, a municipal and regional administrative centre, an as well as, a raion of Donetsk Oblast in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine, on the Kalmius river.
(province) An oblast in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Kramatorsk; former seat: Donetsk (prior to the Donbas War, where Russia occupied and set up puppet countries)
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for donetsk.
noun
A town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, on the Donets river.
noun
(city and raion) A city, a municipal and regional administrative centre, an as well as, a raion of Donetsk Oblast in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine, on the Kalmius river.
noun
(province) An oblast in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Kramatorsk; former seat: Donetsk (prior to the Donbas War, where Russia occupied and set up puppet countries)
noun
(country) A self-declared country in Donetsk Oblast in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Donetsk; occupying 1/3 of the province, but claiming all the province, before the Russian invasion of all of Ukraine in 2022.
Example sentences
Maybe you could move to Crimea or Donetsk Republic and get NAF to be your personal bodyguards.
No modern Russain Federation tanks can be seen around Donetsk (like T-14 or at least T-90).
A bus in the rebel stronghold Donetsk just got blown up and 13 civilians died.
The website you've linked is the website of Donetsk city and not of Ukrainian nationalists.
About 2/3 of the population of Donetsk region identify themselves as ethnic Ukrainians.
Combined battalion group (about 300-500) of platoons of special forces and paratroopers from various Russian units were performing major offensive in Donetsk airport in December.
We see this happening today in Crimea, Donetsk by Russia.
>...before you'd recognize right for self-determination for Donetsk Do you support Palestinians, Tamils, Uyghurs, Kosovars right to self determination?
The Donetsk separatists are not a member state.
I don't know if you remember the sequence of events, but Donetsk never separated and formed an army until after the massive escalation of violence by the pro-western Ukrainians...
Everything that happened in Ukraine happened not because Ukraine did something, but because Russia did it - their forces invaded Crimea (and did a laughable 'referendum' there), and then they invaded Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
Putin compared Kiev's assault on the rebel-held cities of Donetsk and Luhansk to the 900-day Nazi siege of Leningrad in which 1 million civilians died, perhaps the most powerful historical analogy it is possible to invoke in Russia.
Quote examples
There are photos of paramilitary people with Donetsk "People Republic" flags at Russian summer camp Seliger in 2009.
> The people of Donetsk weren't that lucky - the Kiev's "pacifier" operation The people of eastern Donbass weren't lucky because that's where Girkin and his merry band decided to "stir things up" after being inserted from Russia.
The massive shelling of cities, mainly and primarily Donetsk, by the Ukrainian forces (in many cases using cluster warheads on unguided missiles fired from multiple rocket launcher systems like "Smerch" and "Uragan" into the purely residential high-density districts located far from the actual battle lines) is the genocide and ethnic cleansing being performed under the cover of military action.
Proper noun examples
):) hardware of Ukrainian army in Donetsk/Lugansk region and the hardware the Ukraine left in Crimea which was trafficked into Donetsk/Lugansk.
Kiev government's refusal to pay pensions to old and disabled people in Donetsk/Luhansk - such a low blow.
And still 1700km from Estonia to Donetsk, Ukraine if you want to include that conflict...
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use donetsk in a sentence?
Maybe you could move to Crimea or Donetsk Republic and get NAF to be your personal bodyguards.
What does donetsk mean?
A town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, on the Donets river.
What part of speech is donetsk?
donetsk is commonly used as noun.