(city) A city, the administrative centre of Donetsk Oblast, in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine, on the Kalmius river.

A partially-recognized secessionist state proclaimed in Donechchyna, Ukraine, on the 7th of April, 2014; it claims to be the successor state of the 1918 Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic and is one of two members of the Confederation of Novorossiya.