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• Three regions of the erstwhile Commonwealth of Independent States, Abkhazia in northwestern Georgia, Transnistria, a breakaway state in Moldova, and South Ossetia, also in Georgia, are territories with internal but not external sovereignty.
• One of the solutions to settle the crisis over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is for the Donbas republics of Donestk and Luhansk to follow this model and exist as de facto states.

Donbass

• Donbass is a region in south-eastern Ukraine, some of whose territory is occupied by two separatist groups in the course of the Russo-Ukrainian War calling themselves the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic.

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https://www.iasgyan.in/daily-current-affairs/ukraine

https://www.iasgyan.in/daily-current-affairs/black-sea-14

https://www.iasgyan.in/daily-current-affairs/russia-and-ukraine-crisis

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