Internationally, the territory they occupy is recognized as part of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, respectively.[1] They proclaimed their independence after the Ukrainian Euromaidan of 2014 and the subsequent war in Donbas, later on merging together as the short-lived confederation of Novorossiya, only to be dissolved in 2015. Today, they are only officially recognized by Russia and South Ossetia. Neither entity has embassies in any other state.