Kate Turska

1. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Kate Turska

   The Roots That Survived (opens the original)

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   Part one of this two-part series traced how Russia spent decades turning an economic region – the Donets Basin – into a manufactured identity, using it to justify the war that began in 2014. Part two turns to the evidence Russia’s story cannot explain: the Ukrainian identity that survived underneath it, and the ways Donbasification continues today. There is another part of Vlad’s argument about Donbasification – the deliberate construction of an enemy-made regional identity inside another countr

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2. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Kate Turska

   Donbasification: How Russia Manufactured an Identity (opens the original)

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   I come from Sloviansk, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. For anyone who has followed Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014, the name will probably be familiar. Sloviansk was where armed men led by Russian citizen and former FSB officer Igor Girkin seized government buildings in April 2014, and where one of the first major battles of Russia’s war in eastern Ukraine unfolded. Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. And yet, more than twelve years later, I still regularly encounter v

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