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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.
This article may lend undue weight to the territories the unrests took place. Unrests were only occurring in Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Mariupol, Kharkiv and Odesa.The specific problem is: Talk:2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine#Misleading image in the infobox Please help improve it by rewriting it in a balanced fashion that contextualizes different points of view.
Pro-Russian protesters remove a Ukrainian flag and replace it with a Russian flag in front of the Donetsk Oblast Regional State Administration building, 1 March 2014. This is a timeline of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest that has erupted in Ukraine, in the aftermath of the Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement.
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 ...
In April 2014, the anti-government protests in the Donbas developed into armed conflict between Russian-backed separatists and Ukraine. Russian citizens with links to its security forces had taken control of the separatist movement by this stage.
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]
A billboard promoting the "Yes" vote. A poll released by the Kyiv Institute of Sociology, with data gathered from 8–16 April, 41.1% of people in Donetsk were for decentralisation of Ukraine with powers transferred to regions, while letting it remain a unified state, 38.4% for changing Ukraine into federation, 27.5% were in favour of secession from Ukraine to join the Russian Federation, and ...
During the movement, on 3–4 June, a column of border guards was attacked, three assailants were killed and one car was destroyed. [27] Personnel, weapons, ammunition, and equipment from the Stanychno-Luhanske, Krasnodon, Biryukovo, Sverdlovsk, and Dyakovo Luhansk Oblast Border Service were redeployed. Many weapons were left in Sverdlovsk. The ...