UKRAINE LATEST: Russian forces continue to unleash attacks from land, sea and air in Donbas – the eastern region of Ukraine. cbsn.ws/3KtP4WB | CBS Evening News

Donbass. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow | RT Documentary It’s been almost (11) seven years since a US-inspired coup divided Ukraine and war erupted in the country’s east. The Donetsk and Lugansk republics, next to Russia's border, are collectively known as Donbass, a coal-mining industrial center. The two declared independence from Kiev in 2014, and civil war erupted. There are mass graves scattered across Donbass, from which bodies of civilians are regularly exhumed. Yet, while the shelling and

Frontline Diary of an American Officer | RT Documentary "Donbass is where the bombs and the bullets are raging. This is where people are dying. This is where the buildings are exploding. So, I wanted to see firsthand the scars of war, the wounds in the street, the rubble of the buildings being collapsed. I wanted to see the soldiers that were fighting and hear from them about why they were fighting, how this fighting started and their opinion," says Scott Bennett, former officer of the US Army.