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Every place Whiskers Meow mentions in "Donbas Explained: The History and Why This Region Changed Europe #donbas #donbasconflict", mapped
// THE CRUX The Donbas region is the focal point of the Ukraine-Russia conflict due to its heavy industrial value, historical Russian demographic ties, and critical geopolitical location.
26 places, in order of mention
| 00:01 | Ukraine | about the war in Ukraine you've probably |
| 00:04 | Donbas | heard one name again and again Donbas |
| 00:13 | Europe | conflict Europe has seen since World War II |
| 00:25 | Russia | right along the border with Russia |
| 00:35 | Donetsk Oblast | or oblasts Donetsk and Luhansk |
| 00:36 | Luhansk Oblast | oblasts Donetsk and Luhansk |
| 00:41 | Eastern Europe | industrialized places in all of Eastern Europe |
| 00:58 | Russian Empire | under the Russian Empire Donbas exploded |
| 01:51 | Soviet Union | Fast forward to the Soviet era |
| 02:03 | Donetsk | Cities like Donetsk and Luhansk were powerful |
| 02:04 | Luhansk | Donetsk and Luhansk were powerful Soviet economic |
| 02:24 | Western Ukraine | Western Ukraine generally leaned toward the European Union |
| 02:25 | European Union | leaned toward the European Union while eastern |
| 02:29 | Russia | including Donbas leaned toward Russia |
| 03:30 | Crimea | seizing and annexing the Crimean peninsula |
| 05:12 | Russia | Donbas sits right on the Russian border |
| 05:16 | Crimea | gives Russia a land corridor to Crimea |
| 05:18 | Black Sea | critical access to the Black Sea |
| 05:34 | Ukraine | full scale invasion of Ukraine |
| 05:43 | Kyiv | capture the capital Kyiv as well as |
| 05:44 | Kharkiv | as well as Kharkiv and the entire |
| 05:45 | Donbas | and the entire Donbas region |
| 05:51 | Mariupol | Cities like Mariupol Severodonetsk Bakhmut and |
| 05:52 | Sievierodonetsk | Mariupol Severodonetsk Bakhmut and Avdiivka |
| 05:53 | Bakhmut | Severodonetsk Bakhmut and Avdiivka were almost |
| 05:54 | Avdiivka | and Avdiivka were almost completely destroyed |