Donetsk–South_Ossetia_relations
Donetsk People's Republic–South Ossetia relations
Bilateral relations
Donetsk People's Republic–South Ossetia relations (Ossetian: Донецчы Адӕмон Республикӕ-Хуссар Ирыстоны хъуыд, Russian: Донецко-южноосетинские отношения) are the bilateral relations between the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and South Ossetia. The DPR is a disputed republic of Russia whereas South Ossetia is a partially recognized state. From April 2014 to September 2022, the DPR portrayed itself as an independent state, but this is no longer the case after Russia's annexation of the DPR on 30 September 2022.
The Russian-annexed DPR is widely internationally unrecognized, with most of the international community regarding the DPR as a Russian military occupation of a portion of Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast (roughly 60% as of October 2022). Meanwhile, South Ossetia is also widely internationally unrecognized, with most of the international community regarding South Ossetia as a part of Georgia.
The DPR and South Ossetia maintained bilateral relations from June 2014 to September 2022. The relations have become defunct in the international relations sense (state-to-state) after Russia's annexation of the DPR. South Ossetia still maintains relations with the DPR in the subnational sense (state-to-province).