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The war in Donbas, [c] also known as the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the Donbas region of Ukraine. The war began in April 2014, when a commando unit headed by Russian citizen Igor Girkin seized Sloviansk in Donetsk oblast. [20] [21] [6] [22] The Ukrainian military launched an operation against them.
30 June: The Ukrainian military reported in February 2020 that 2,576 armoured vehicles had been damaged in different degrees in the battlefields across the Donbas region by June 2016. A total of 2,185 vehicles were lost to "enemy shelling, armed clashes, and landmine explosions".
In 2014, the organization founded the Donetsk People's Republic, which Ukraine's government deems a terrorist organization. [6] The group's leader, Andrei Purgin, was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest. [4] [5] The movement won the 2014 Donbas general elections with 68.53% of the vote and 68 seats. [7]
The timeline for the war in Donbas is divided into the annual periods listed below: Timeline of the war in Donbas (2014) Timeline of the war in Donbas (2015) Timeline of the war in Donbas (2016) Timeline of the war in Donbas (2017) Timeline of the war in Donbas (2018) Timeline of the war in Donbas (2019) Timeline of the war in Donbas (2020)
Girkin believed that the Russian Armed Forces and the Russian state would quickly follow and the Donbas would become a republic within Russia. [10] In Kramatorsk , in the course of a pro-Russian rally, protestors overpowered a police line and occupied the building of the local executive committee, where they hoisted the new-proclaimed republic ...
On 18 April 2016 the planned (organised by the DPR and LPR) local elections were postponed from 20 April to 24 July 2016. [74] On 22 July 2016 these DPR and LPR elections were again postponed to 6 November 2016. [75] On 2 October 2016 the DPR and LPR held "primaries" in which voters nominated candidates for the 6 November 2016 elections. [76]
The Russian cross-border artillery shelling of Ukraine happened in July–September 2014 amidst the war in Donbas to prevent the defeat of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. The Russian Armed Forces performed a series of artillery strikes targeting Ukrainian troops in the Donbas region of Ukraine.
A July 2016, a published analysis of changes in nighttime light intensity by Tom Coupe (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine), Michał Myck and Mateusz Najsztub (CENEA, Poland) found that the economic activity in the Donbas had dropped 30 to 50% of the pre-war level for the big cities and to only a tenth of the pre-war level for some smaller ...