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AP News estimated that Russia had 55,000–62,000 troops in Ukraine, based on an earlier Pentagon statement that the typical size of a BTG was 700-800 soldiers. [53] Western media, citing European officials, reported that 10,000–20,000 Libyan, Syrian, and Wagner Group mercenaries were deployed for the offensive in the Donbas. [51] [54] [53]
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.
The battle of Donbas was a major offensive in the eastern theatre that took place in mid-2022. [13] By the culmination of the offensive in July 2022, Russian forces and their separatist allies had captured the cities of Sievierodonetsk , [ 14 ] Lysychansk , [ 15 ] Rubizhne [ 16 ] and Izium . [ 17 ]
That includes one town in the Donbas, Kreminna, where local officials said Moscow's troops had seized control in the hours after launching their intensified assault.
But Shoigu said that Russian forces were increasing the pace of their offensive in Donbas, capturing almost 1,000 sq km over August and the first eight days of September.
The province of Luhansk, together with neighboring Donetsk, forms the industrial Donbas region that has become the key focus of the Kremlin’s war offensive after it failed to capture the capital ...
Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943), attack by Southern Front and Southwestern Front against Army Group South from mid-August to late September 1943. Battle of Donbas (2022) , attack by the Russian Armed Forces against the Armed Forces of Ukraine between April and September 2022.
Russian forces attacked along a broad front in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as part of a full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country's eastern industrial heartland in what Ukrainian ...