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00:04:36 1 Background
00:04:45 1.1 Donetsk Oblast
00:06:11 1.2 Luhansk Oblast
00:07:41 2 History
00:07:50 2.1 April 2014: conflict begins
00:10:07 2.2 Expansion of separatist territorial control
00:10:18 2.2.1 Sloviansk
00:11:55 2.2.2 Kramatorsk
00:13:15 2.2.3 Horlivka
00:16:15 2.2.4 Other cities
00:19:42 2.3 Government counter-offensive
00:26:21 2.4 May 2014: post-referendum fighting
00:31:18 2.4.1 Airport battle and fighting in Luhansk
00:33:13 2.5 Escalation in May and June 2014
00:33:50 2.5.1 Luhansk border post siege
00:34:20 2.5.2 2 June Luhansk airstrike
00:35:45 2.5.3 Continued fighting
00:37:22 2.5.4 Russian tank incursion
00:40:44 2.5.5 Ilyushin Il-76 shoot-down
00:41:24 2.5.6 Battle of Yampil
00:43:12 2.6 July 2014: post-ceasefire government offensive
00:48:47 2.7 Fighting worsens in eastern Donetsk Oblast
00:51:10 2.8 Downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
00:53:24 2.9 Government push into Donetsk and Luhansk cities
01:07:30 2.10 August 2014 counter-offensive by pro-Russian forces
01:16:24 2.11 September 2014 ceasefire
01:22:16 2.12 November 2014 separatist elections and aftermath
01:27:13 2.13 Escalation in January 2015
01:34:06 2.14 Minsk II ceasefire and denouement
01:39:44 2.15 January 2017 eruption of heavy fighting and failed ceasefires
01:46:57 3 Combatants
01:49:48 3.1 Pro-Russian insurgents
01:49:57 3.1.1 Donbass People's Militia
01:52:39 3.1.2 Army of the South-East
01:53:16 3.1.3 Russian Orthodox Army
01:54:28 3.1.4 Vostok Battalion
01:56:34 3.1.5 Police and military defectors and deserters
01:57:11 3.1.6 Foreign groups
01:57:19 3.1.6.1 Neo-cossacks
01:58:53 3.1.6.2 Caucasian and Central Asian armed groups
01:59:41 3.1.6.2.1 Chechen paramilitaries
02:02:14 3.1.6.2.2 Ossetian and Abkhaz paramilitaries
02:03:23 3.1.6.2.3 Others
02:05:37 3.2 Counter-insurgency forces
02:05:47 3.2.1 Armed Forces of Ukraine
02:08:43 3.2.2 National Guard of Ukraine
02:09:11 3.2.3 Ministry of Internal Affairs
02:09:36 3.2.4 Security Service of Ukraine
02:10:06 3.2.5 Pro-government paramilitaries
02:12:20 4 Russian involvement
02:17:02 5 Humanitarian concerns
02:22:53 6 Casualties
02:23:33 6.1 Ukrainian forces
02:24:02 6.2 Pro-Russian forces
02:25:39 7 Reactions
02:32:52 7.1 Ukrainian public opinion
02:34:53 7.2 Labelling of the conflict
02:37:04 8 See also



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The War in Donbass is an armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine. From the beginning of March 2014, protests by pro-Russian and anti-government groups took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, commonly collectively called the "Donbass", in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement. These demonstrations, which followed the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation (February to March 2014), and which were part of a wider group of concurrent pro-Russian protests across southern and eastern Ukraine, escalated into an armed conflict between the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR respectively), and the Ukrainian government. In the Donetsk People's Republic, from May 2014 until a change of the top leadership in August 2014, some of the top leaders were Russian citizens. According to the Ukrainian government, at the height of the conflict in mid-2014, Russian paramilitaries were reported to make up between 15% to 80% of the combatants.Between 22 and 25 August 2014, Russian artillery, personnel, and what Russia called a "humanitarian convoy" crossed the border into Ukrainian territory without permission of the Ukrainian government. Crossings occurred both in areas under the control of pro-Russian forces and in areas that were not under their control, such as the south-eastern part of Donetsk Oblast, near Novoazovsk. ...