The first flashpoint of Russia’s hybrid war in Donbas in eastern Ukraine, and one of the first Ukrainian cities to be occupied and then liberated back in 2014, Sloviansk today finds itself once again under threat from the Kremlin’s armies.
Arguably, the Russo-Ukrainian war really started in Sloviansk in April 2014. By then, the Kremlin's forces had already taken over Crimea. Ukraine, then in the throes of political upheaval following the ouster of pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, was unable to resist.
