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Battle of Vuhledar. Part of the eastern Ukraine campaign of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Destruction in Vuhledar from fighting and shelling, September 2024. Date. 28 October 2022 – 1 October 2024 [a] (1 year, 11 months and 3 days) Location. Vuhledar, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. 47°47′N 37°15′E / 47.783°N 37.250°E / 47.783 ...
Current territorial control in Ukraine and nearby areas of Russia. The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War[c] began in February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas War.
On 5 February 2022, two anonymous U.S. officials reported that Russia had assembled 83 battalion tactical groups, estimated to be 70 percent of its combat capabilities, for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and predicted that a hypothetical invasion would result in 8,000 to 35,000 military casualties and 25,000 to 50,000 civilian casualties.
Sputnik was launched on 10 November 2014 by Rossiya Segodnya, which is itself funded through RT, owned and operated by the Russian government, and was created via an Executive Order of the President of Russia on 9 December 2013. [2][3] As well as the RIA Novosti news agency, Sputnik's origins can be traced to 1929 when Radio Moscow was launched ...
The dead included three protesters, [3] [4] [5] two Ukrainian soldiers [6] and one Russian Cossack paramilitary. [7] On 10 August 2016, Russia accused the Special Forces of Ukraine of conducting a raid near the Crimean town of Armiansk which killed two Russian servicemen. The government of Ukraine dismissed the report as a provocation. [8]
This is the order of battle for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It should not be considered complete; up-to-date; nor fully accurate, being based on open-source press reporting. An updated order of battle estimate for April 23, 2023, by the Institute for the Study of War is accessible at: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 23.
The Buk (Russian: "Бук"; " beech " (tree), / bʊk /) is a family of self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air missile systems developed by the Soviet Union and its successor state, the Russian Federation, and designed to counter cruise missiles, smart bombs and rotary-wing aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles. [citation needed]
A BTR-4MV1. The layout of the BTR-4 represents a change from the older BTR-60/70/80s designed in the Soviet Union.The vehicle has a conventional layout similar to Western designs like the German TPz Fuchs with the driver's and commander's compartment at the front of the hull, the engine and transmission compartment in the middle, and the troop compartment at the rear.