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What happened at Staromaryivka on 27 October 2021?
Summary
A retrospective on a report of Ukrainian troops regaining a village in the grey zone, and a judicial appointment days earlier.
What was happening in Donbas on 27 October 2021? According to Natalya Nikonorova, Foreign Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Ukrainian troops regained control of the village of Staromaryivka, which lies in the so-called "grey zone" between Ukraine and the DPR.
The account came from the DPR side, and it was reported as part of the continuing war in Donbas and the wider tension in Russia–Ukraine relations.
A judicial appointment days earlier
A few days before, on 22 October 2021, Vsevolod Kniaziev was elected Head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine. That decision belonged to the domestic judicial sphere and was separate from the situation in the grey zone.
Together, the two developments show Ukraine's politics at the end of October 2021: continuing armed confrontation in Donbas alongside institutional business in Kyiv.
