Leaders all around the world have ramped up their condemnation of Vladimir Putin ’s military aggression against Ukraine after Russian tanks were spotted rolling into the east of the country.
However, while analysts see the move as possibly sparking a much wider conflict between the Kremlin and Western powers, one of the regions affected - Donetsk - has a strange and little-known history that's much closer to home than many might think.
Indeed, as one of Ukraine's biggest cities Donetsk owes its creation to a man from Merthyr Tydfil called John Hughes who, towards the end of the 19th century, left the Valleys to start a new life in what was then one of Imperial Russia's industrial centres.
