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Donetsk

[ duh-netsk; Russian duh-nyetsk ]

noun

  1. a city in eastern Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.


Donetsk

/ daˈnjɛtsk /

noun

  1. a city in E Ukraine: the chief industrial centre of the Donbass; first ironworks founded by a Welshman, John Hughes (1872), after whom the town was named Yuzovka (Hughesovka). Pop: 992 000 (2005 est) Former names (from 1924 until 1961)StalinStalino
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The air was dark and malignant when Agent Craig and his team arrived in Donetsk on the train.

Tank’s crew ran out of Donetsk, a city of nearly a million people in southeast Ukraine.

The American cops took the slower, cheaper train from Kyiv to Donetsk.

Last summer, Russia and Ukraine agreed to better enforce a shaky ceasefire over the fighting that has gripped eastern Ukraine—specifically the separatist enclaves in parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions—since 2014.

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That a maximally aggressive Putin is eyeing Donetsk and Luhansk for occupation the same way he did Crimea.

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Bershin, who worked with the Ukrainian police before rebels took control of Donetsk, says officers have to be extra vigilant.

Her house in Donetsk, she says, has been taken over by rebels and her family is now all but homeless.

In front of its offices in Donetsk, there is an armored military vehicle.

In Donetsk, there is at least the appearance of some sort of formalized legal process.

Artillery and mortar duels all around the outskirts of Donetsk rumble angrily every day.

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