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Section sizes Section size for War in Donbas (53 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 29,560 29,560 Background 6,861 11,134 Protests 4,273 4,273 Proxy war 2,974 143,603 Militants seize towns 3,014 18,551 Sloviansk 5,281 5,281 Kramatorsk 1,561 1,561 Horlivka 3,636 3,636 Other settlements 5,059 5,059 Government counter-offensive: "the Anti-Terrorist Operation" 28,347 28,347 May 2014: post-referendum fighting 13,125 17,009 Airport battle and fighting in Luhansk 3,884 3,884 Escalation in May and June 2014 1,502 23,283 Luhansk border post siege 1,453 1,453 2 June Luhansk airstrike 2,929 2,929 Continued fighting 4,233 4,233 Russian tank incursion 7,154 7,154 Ilyushin Il-76 shoot-down 1,190 1,190 Battle of Yampil 4,822 4,822 July 2014: post-ceasefire government offensive 12,158 12,158 Fighting worsens in eastern Donetsk Oblast 4,768 4,768 Downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 4,308 4,308 Government push into Donetsk and Luhansk cities 32,205 32,205 Open war between Russia and Ukraine 131 128,659 August 2014 invasion by Russian forces 26,812 26,812 September 2014 ceasefire 13,327 13,327 November 2014 separatist elections and aftermath 10,978 10,978 Escalation in January 2015 18,428 18,428 Minsk II ceasefire and denouement 13,387 13,387 January 2017 eruption of heavy fighting and failed ceasefires 22,005 22,005 October 2019 Steinmeier formula agreement and July 2020 ceasefire 7,592 7,592 2021–2022 escalation 14,191 14,191 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine 1,808 1,808 Combatants 18 26,455 List of combatants 157 157 Russian involvement 24,350 24,350 Military aid to Ukraine 1,930 1,930 Casualties 728 11,841 Civilians 1,929 1,929 Ukrainian forces 1,553 1,553 Separatist forces 7,631 7,631 Humanitarian concerns 8,446 14,624 Displaced population 6,178 6,178 Reactions 16 19,434 Ukrainian public opinion 4,916 4,916 Russia 1,605 1,605 International reactions 413 413 Labelling of the conflict 12,484 12,484 See also 263 263 Notes 26 26 References 30 30 Further reading 661 661 External links 1,992 1,992 Total 388,282 388,282

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Infobox end date

What's the precedent for a war being subsumed by another war? When there's a battle, there's start and end dates, and you can implicitly tell its part of a larger war, but titling an article "War in <location>" and having an end date in that infobox seems to suggest the "war" ended, when it didn't actually end, that phase of the war was eclipsed by the much larger invasion. Also, I don't think the "Major combat operations phase ended on 20 February 2015" is very relevant, there was sporadic levels of fighting all throughout 2014-2022. MarkiPoli (talk) 19:25, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

The solution is straightforward: remove the end date and specify that the conflict was followed by the Russian invasion. EpicAdventurer (talk) 14:45, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Great idea: I don't know why the "subsumed" thing was totally removed from the article, as if nothing of particular importance happened in 2022. And as for the conflict subsumption: the recent examples include the various ethnic conflicts in Myanmar (Karen , Kachin etc) being subsumed by a all-country Civil war with a new major and largely non-ethnic actor People's Defence Forces. Similar thing happened to ethnic conflicts in Sudan with the inception of 2023 Civil war. These conflicts didn't end, but their context changed markedly. Gorgedweller (talk) 12:32, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

I've changed it again to keep the end date but include the explanatory note that the term "War in Donbas" generally only covers events up to the start of the invasion. I've also removed "Major combat operations phase ended", as this seems redundant now. </MarkiPoli> <talk /><cont /> 13:04, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

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Add something like "pro goverment partisans" to the ukranian side on the "units involved" list in the infobox.

This are Ukrainian sources and they attribute it to a government entity (RNBO), a member of Rada and a member of Aidar battalion. Considering that almost 10 years have passed since then, I'd suggest to look for a confirmation in more reliable and less biased sources.

Also I would suggest adding information to the article itself first and if it becomes apparent that it was happening on a large scale it can be added to the infobox. Alaexis_¿question? 20:10, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Borodai in the lede

I'm not sure his words about 50k Russian citizens are lede-worthy. Borodai, as a direct participant, is essentially a primary source and Euromaidan simply repeats his assertions without any analysis.

The topic itself - how many Russian citizens participated in the war is important and I'm not against discussing it in the lede. However we should provide a summary of high-quality secondary sources. We have quite a few of them already. Alaexis_¿question? 22:54, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Composed in large part of Russian citizens

@Alaexis, @Nihlus1, regarding source request , this The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics - Google Books p. 154 says In reality, the conflict was fought between, on one side, Ukrainian-speaking and Russian-speaking ethnic Ukrainian and ethnic Russian Ukrainians having national allegiance to Ukraine against, on the opposing side, a minority of Ukrainians with massive Kremlin support having primary allegiance to Russia (Kuzio, 2020, pp. 106–133).

Crisis in Russian Studies? Nationalism (Imperialism), Racism and War – E-International Relations p. 119 It cannot be true, as Sakwa (2017a) writes, that Russia sought to extricate itself from the Donbas at the same time as it built up a huge army and military arsenal controlled by GRU (Russian military intelligence) officers and 5,000 Russian occupation troops based in the DNR and LNR. ManyAreasExpert (talk) 01:33, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

The article now makes a very specific claim, that the forces that seized government buildings composed in large part of Russian citizens crossing the border into Ukraine. I wouldn't be too surprised if it were true, but the sources you've brought up here make different claims. They talk about the conflict in general rather than about the initial unrest. They also don't say anything about the Russian citizens being a large part of the separatist forces, whether in the beginning or subsequently. Alaexis_¿question? 20:13, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

References to TASS

This article has several references to WP:TASS, also cited as “Information Telegraph Agency of Russia,” a biased source that’s unacceptable. TASS may be acceptable for direct quotations of the Kremlin, but not about any facts or events in Ukraine, including statements by Russian militants with whom the Kremlin obscured its true relationship. These should be tagged as unreliable, removed, and replaced with reliable sources. 142.160.96.197 (talk) 17:17, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Specific phrases please? ManyAreasExpert (talk) 17:23, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

1. https://www.5.ua/86/v-okupovanykh-raionakh-donbasu-rozhortaietsia-ukrainskyi-partyzanskyi-rukh-rnbo-63891.html ; https://www.5.ua/86/na-lyganshini-chastishaut-boj-teroristiv-mij-sobou-i-z-partizanami-66591.html; https://novynarnia.com/2020/09/07/volodymyr-zhemchugov/ ; Ukranian Language wikipedia on the subject of resistance during the conflict talks about this aswel but i cant copy the link here for some reason.

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