Sloviansk Raion (Ukrainian: Слов'янський район) was a raion of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district...

advanced south towards Kamianka, Izium Raion [uk], which lies on the road to the strategically positioned city of Sloviansk. On 6 April, an Izium government...

in April 2014, he led a group of armed Russian militants who seized Sloviansk. His role in the siege gained him influence and attention, and he was...

Donbas People's Militia seized government buildings in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, and set up checkpoints and barricades. The same day, former members of...

unrest escalated when armed pro-Russian militants seized control city of Sloviansk. The Ukrainian government responded with an offensive against the separatists...

sporadic fighting during the beginning of the war in Donbas in 2014. The Sloviansk-Izium highway was referred to as the "highway of death" by locals during...

2014, when a commando unit headed by Russian citizen Igor Girkin seized Sloviansk in Donetsk oblast. The Ukrainian military launched an operation against...

Vyacheslav Ponomarev became the self-proclaimed mayor of the city of Sloviansk. Ukrainian-born pro-Russian activist Pavel Gubarev, an Anti-Maidan activist...

2014. "Sloviansk rebels down army helicopters". BBC News. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 2 May 2014. "+Live updates on Ukraine's spreading unrest+ | DW.DE | 02.05...

pronounced [ˈn⁽ʲ⁾ikopolʲ] ) is a city and municipality (hromada) in Nikopol Raion in the south of Ukraine, on the right bank of the Dnieper River, about 63 km...