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

Example Sentences

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

From MIT Technology Review

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

From MIT Technology Review

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

From MIT Technology Review

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.

From Time

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

From Time

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast