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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.
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]
On 19 May 2014, a group of pro-Russian militants (about 50 people) carried out an armed attack on a checkpoint of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the town of Amvrosiyivka, Donetsk region, near the Uspenka border checkpoint. As a result of the confrontation, the militants were neutralized, and some of them were detained and prosecuted.
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".
Ukrainian SBU released more detailed photos but mil.ru claimed that the origin and dates (and on some content) were doctored. [151] Ukrainian Minister of Defence Valeriy Geletey acknowledged that 41 Ukrainian soldiers from the 51st armoured brigade deserted from their besieged border outpost and sought shelter into Russian territory.
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.
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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)