 | The Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany has one for this country Partial travel warning released (Web link). "You are warned against traveling to the areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk administrative districts that are not controlled by the Ukrainian government as well as to the following government-controlled areas along the so-called" contact line ": In the Donetsk region: districts (rayon) Wolnowacha, Volodarsk, Wuhlehirsk, Marjinka, city of Avdiivka, City of Torezk, the southern parts of the districts of Kostjantyniwka (not: City of Kostyantyniwka) and Bachmut (not: City of Bachmut) [...] When traveling to other places or districts in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, special caution is requested. "Date of the last travel warning: 11/26/2019. |
The Donetsk Oblast lies in the Ukraine. It is surrounded by the oblasts Zaporizhia, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk, in the southeast the area borders Russia, in the southwest of that Sea of Azov.
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The Donetsk Oblast, together with the Luhansk Oblast, forms the Donets Basin, Донецький басейн (Donezkyj bassejn), short Donbass called. The area is of great economic importance to Ukraine because of its coal deposits and heavy industry.
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In spring 2014, Donetsk Oblast declared itself independent from Ukraine as the “Donetsk People's Republic”. The separatist groups that currently control the oblast are seeking unification with the Russian Federation. There are firefights between the Ukrainian military and separatists, some of which can reach civil war-like proportions.
