The Kremlin’s fiercest critic, whose work brought arrests, attacks and a near-fatal poisoning in 2020, had spent months in isolation.
Author: Valerie Hopkins and Andrew E. Kramer
Why Donetsk and Luhansk, in Donbas Region, Matter in Ukraine
The act of recognition is fraught with meaning because the borders claimed by the Russia-backed leaders of the two breakaway regions extend into space controlled by the Ukrainian army.