Donetsk People's Republic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A Russian-backed, partially-recognized secessionist state proclaimed in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on 7 April 2014. It was later unilaterally annexed by Russia on 30 September 2022.

Word forms

Donetsk People's Republic the Donetsk People's Republic

Etymology

Calque of Russian Доне́цкая Наро́дная Респу́блика (Donéckaja Naródnaja Respúblika) and/or Ukrainian Донецька народна республіка (Donecʹka narodna respublika).

Synonyms

DPR

Related words

Derived words

DPR
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.