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image by António Martins, 23 March 2018
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Donetsk, the province of Ukraine that declared independence as the Donetsk
People's Republic on 12th May 2014, has finally adopted the state flag. It's the
tricolour black, blue, red (2:3), without the coat of arms or lettering.
Parliament adopted the flag on 9 February 2018, and it was approved for
publication by the president the following 28 February.
You can find the
law, in Russian,
here.
Jos Poels, 23 March 2018
image by Jens Pattke
image by Jens Pattke
Three weeks ago, the German news channel N24 showed a
report from the Donbass Region. It was reported on the life of
the miners workers. During the time of the election campaign the
life of the Russian speaking families improved. The report also
showed pictures of a demonstration for the autonomy of the
Southern Ukraine. In Donetsk, the demonstrators showed the known
"Green and Black" flag of the miners workers. I have
seen two unknown flags in the report. Can somebody identify these
both flags? Red, blue and green?
Jens Pattke, 21 December 2004
image by H B, 15 April 2014
alternate image by Pete Loeser, 19 June 2017
Unidentified flag at Ukraine miners demonstration, reported by
Jens Pattke, is identified by
www.vexillologia.ru as
flag of Donshchyna or Donetsk Republic – easternmost part of
Ukraine (Donetsk and Luhansk oblast, maybe also Kharkiv and
southern part of Zaporizhe, so called New Russia), where people
predominantly speak Russian, even ethnic Ukrainians, and support
former president Yanukovych. Flag has three vertical stripes: red
symbolise the fight for freedom (rather nostalgic for communism, I
think), blue is for water of Donets river and Azov sea and black
is for coal, the main resource of regions wealth. I send you
variant of Donshchyna flag with inverted colours, indistinct
shield and incipit "Donetsk republic".
Jakub Grombir, 6 February 2008
Photos with that flag are here [not retrievable]
and here [not retrievable].
I also found a photo with black
variant of flag here [retrieved].
(Photo located by William Garrison, 18 Jan 2025)
Aleksandar Nemet, 17 January 2010
The separatist flag with the double-headed eagle is widely used by
mountaineers, who display it on the top the mountains they
have climbed.
Photos:
http://www.dsnews.ua/society/ukrainskie-alpinisty-podnyali-flag-dnr-na-elbruse-01032018195200
https://www.glavny.tv/news/26846
https://www.donetsk.kp.ru/online/news/2799001/
https://vsednr.ru/alpinisty-dnr-sovershili-voskhozhdeni/
https://politua.org/2018/03/01/37474/
http://smdnr.ru/alpinisty-iz-dnr-prinyali-uchastie-v-massovom-vosxozhdenii-na-elbrus/
Ivan Sache, 11 January 2019
image located by Esteban Rivera
(The flag is on the right – The screen shot from the second video is mentioned below)
In this BBC news report there are two
embedded videos. In the first video titled "Ukraine crisis: casualties in Sloviansk gun
battles" as well as on the second video titled "Ukraine crisis: Kramatorsk police headquarters
stormed", there's an flag, which is a horizontal flag which shows one element which is the Order
of St. George orange/black stripes, but there's an inscription that goes along the flag and also what
seems to be an unidentified logo or a CoA.
Esteban Rivera, 13 April 2014
image by Victor Lomantsov
You saw the flag of the "People`s Militia of Donbass" (Narodnoe Opolchenie Donbassa),
a movement founded in Donetsk in 2013. "Donbass" is an abbreviation of "Donetsk Coal
Basin" (Donetsk Coal-Field), very often used as an alternative name of the region.
One note: Kramatorsk is not in Crimea. It is in the Donetsk region of continental Ukraine.
Victor Lomantsov, 13 April 2014
The flag above the megaphone looks like a Soviet navy flag. Is the
object including the St. George stripes a flag or a poster on the entrance of the building?
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 April 2014
Well, considering there's a staff going up to it, I'd opt for a flag.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 20 April 2014
Since Victor kindly identified this flag, it's proper to have additional information on this flag and
relocate it to where it belongs. I suggest within this page, the Donetsk Republic.
"The Donbass People's Militia is an armed pro-Russian group that declared allegiance to the
self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. It is formed of mostly civilians turned into informal militias
with mismatched uniforms and unclear identities. They also hold several light guns and armour. They are
mostly active in the Donetsk Oblast and are led by Pavel Gubarev, who was
designated by protesters as their regional governor. Gubarev is a former member of the neo-Nazi
Russian National Unity paramilitary group.
Since March 2, 2014 protesters began collect signatures for a referendum to define Donetsk's future.
The members of Donbass People´s Militia were among them. In mid-March 2014, SBU began arrests of
DPM leaders. Since early April, 2014, the militant group has seized control of several government
buildings in Eastern Ukraine such as in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. There's currently an
Easter truce. The DPM is one of several
pro-Russian groups in the area (others are: Donetsk Republic [organization], Army of the South-East,
Lugansk Guard, Denikin Volunteer Brigade of Lugansk, Antifascist Movement [composed of Borotba,
Ukrainian Choice, Antifascist Committee of Ukraine and Russophone Ukraine])."
Sources: Wikipedia: Donbass People´s Militia and Pro-Russian Unrest in Ukraine.
Esteban Rivera, 20 April 2014
image by Ivan Sache
These mountain climbers are members of the Mountaineering Federation of
the Donetsk People's Republic, whose flag is white with the federation's logo.
Photos
http://www.dsnews.ua/politics/top-5-propagandistskih-mifov-feykov-i-glupostey-kremlya-20062015101100
http://минспорт.рус/news/v-zuevke-proshel-chempionat-dnr-po-tehnike-alpinizma
http://минспорт.рус/news/sorevnovaniya-po-tehnike-alpinizma-dali-start-novomu-alpinistskomu-sezonu-v-dnr
Ivan Sache, 11 January 2019
image located by William Garrison
Caption: "Flags of Russia and Russian Emergencies Ministry fly during an opening ceremony of the
DPR Emergencies Ministry's centre, built by specialists from the military construction complex of Russian
Defence Ministry, in Mariupol, Donetsk People's Republic, Russia." (Event date: 11-11-2022,
source)
located by William Garrison, 21 June 2023
This flag belongs to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, but not of the Russian Federation but of
that of the Donetsk People's Republic (source). The laws
regarding the flag of this ministry can be seen here and are PDF files.
Zachary Harden, 21 June 2023
