The Kharkiv and Odesa obasts were Russia's primary targets for takeovers during the "Russian spring" operation in 2014. The "DNR" and "LNR" are two puppet statetes set up by Russia in eastern Ukraine, also known as "separate parts of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts," or ORDLO. Transnistria is anunrecognised breakaway state located in the narrow strip of land internationally recognized as Moldova.