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On 22 February, a British military public figure and author of military books, James Gerard Richard Shortt [70] was killed fighting for the International Legion in Ukraine. [71] On 6 March, Major Andriy Lukanyuk , battalion commander in the 80th Air Assault Brigade and a veteran of the 2014 war, was killed by a Russian airstrike in Chasiv Yar.
Casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian War include six deaths during the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 14,200–14,400 military and civilian deaths during the War in Donbas, and up to 500,000 estimated casualties during the Russian invasion of Ukraine . The War in Donbas' deadliest phase occurred before the Minsk agreements ...
On 19 March 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the FSB to hunt down and “punish” Russians serving in the Ukrainian military and compared them to the Russian Liberation Army which had collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. [1]
As of 28 November 2023, Ukrainian sources claimed that 16 Russian generals and 1 admiral had been killed during the invasion, while Russian sources have confirmed 7 deaths. Although seven of the Ukrainian claims were rebutted, the loss of even two general officers is rare. The scale of these losses is unprecedented since the Second Chechen War ...
Bakhmut, formerly known as Artemivsk, was the site of a 2014 battle between Ukraine and the self-declared separatist Donetsk People's Republic. Pro-Russian separatists had captured parts of the city during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine in April, and a Ukrainian special forces unit together with the National Guard were dispatched to ...
The first violent incident had occurred during the night on 16 April 2014, when about 300 pro-Russian and anti-government protesters attacked a Ukrainian military unit in Mariupol, throwing petrol bombs. [20] Internal Affairs minister Arsen Avakov said that troops were forced to open fire, resulting in the killing of three of the attackers. [20]
The same day, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko referred to the operation as Ukraine's "Patriotic War of 2014" and a war against external aggression. [126] [127] On 25 August, a column of Russian military vehicles was reported to have crossed into Ukraine near Novoazovsk on the Azov sea coast.
The capture of Donetsk took place in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk and was perpetrated by pro-Russian separatists in April 2014 during widespread unrest following the pro-European revolution of Dignity in the capital city of Kyiv in February. As a result, Donetsk came under the control of the Donetsk People's Republic and became its ...