{"id":270543,"date":"2025-08-18T18:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-does-putin-want-ukraines-donbas-region\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:05:24","slug":"why-does-putin-want-ukraines-donbas-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-does-putin-want-ukraines-donbas-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Putin want Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/m5egYjdZq5E\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why does Putin want Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5egYjdZq5E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Russia and Ukraine have been fighting for control of the Donbas for years, and it has seen some of the most intensive fighting during the conflict.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBut why is this eastern region of Ukraine, which borders Russia, so important to President Putin?\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nTamara Cohen speaks to our security and defence analyst Professor Michael Clarke and our international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn, who&#8217;s in Kyiv, about why this area is so central to a potential peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. \u00a0<br \/>\n\u202f\u00a0<br \/>\nProducer: Emma Rae Woodhouse\u00a0<br \/>\nEditor: Wendy Parker\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia and Ukraine have been fighting for control of the Donbas for years, and it has seen some of the most intensive fighting during the conflict. \u00a0 But why is this eastern region of Ukraine, which borders Russia, so important to President Putin?\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Tamara Cohen speaks to our security and defence analyst Professor Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":270544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128811],"tags":[129040,128836,128834],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-270543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sky-news","tag-have","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why does Putin want Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why does Putin want Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region? for free, here on News ISC. 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