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Timeline by Djordje Djukic, with additional reporting by Evan Centanni
Donbass Frontline Map
In the four years since PolGeoNow
last updated our Ukraine control map, little has changed in terms of territorial boundaries in the region of eastern Europe known as
the Donbass. Forces of the Russia-backed self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) still hold a large chunk of what most of the world considers Ukraine, though their plans of formally uniting into a confederation of "
Novorossiya" ("New Russia") have long gone by the wayside. But as attempts at resolving the conflict peacefully grind slowly forward, fighting has continued at a low level along the frontlines, and we have made some small changes to the map where the situation has either changed or been clarified since 2016.