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Russian news agencies quoted the defence ministry as saying Moscow's forces had taken four more villages in eastern Ukraine. Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield reports from ...
On 20 February 2018, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko changed the status of the ATO zone from an anti-terrorist operation to "taking measures to ensure national security and defense, and repulsing and deterring the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts".
Russia now thus views the LPR and DPR as a Republics of Russia, but the international community still overwhelmingly views them as part of Ukraine. About 14,000 people were killed in the war: 6,500 Russian and Russian proxy forces, 4,400 Ukrainian forces, and 3,400 civilians on both sides. [17] Most civilian casualties were in the first year. [17]
President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on Monday to recognise two breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine as independent statelets, defying Western warnings that such a step would be illegal and ...
Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, said: "In view of the blatant genocide and the most important the human rights of the people of the world - the right to life are violated, and our country cannot remain indifferent to the fate of the 4 million people of the Donbass." [8]
Damaged building in Kurakhove, 26 November 2014. During the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War between the Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas region of Ukraine that began in April 2014, many international organisations and states noted a deteriorating humanitarian situation in the conflict zone.
International Movement of Donbass: Merged into: United Russia: Headquarters: Universitetskaya 19, Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine (non-government controlled) Youth wing: Young Republic, Zakharovtsy: Paramilitary wing: Donbas People's Militia: Membership (2022) 247,720 (claimed) [1] Ideology: Russian nationalism [2] Donbas separatism [3] Social ...
Pasi Paroinen, a military expert of the finnish Black Bird Group, doubted the official Ukrainian account that the troop contingent in the city could evacuate without sustaining major casualties, as soldiers would have had to cross a river without crossings and walk through at least a mile of open flood plains to escape.