Donbas war - Revision history

RobSmith: /* Battle of Debaltsevo */

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‎Battle of Debaltsevo

RobSmith: /* Propaganda war */

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‎Propaganda war

RobSmith: /* Battle of Iloviask */

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‎Battle of Iloviask

RobSmith: /* Legality of Declarations of Independence */

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‎Legality of Declarations of Independence

RobSmith: /* Murder, assassination and kidnapping */

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‎Murder, assassination and kidnapping

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RobSmith: /* Battle of Iloviask */

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‎Battle of Iloviask

RobSmith: /* Battle of Iloviask */

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‎Battle of Iloviask

RobSmith: /* Zugres beach */

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‎Zugres beach

RobSmith: /* Minsk Agreements */

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‎Minsk Agreements

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 The battle occurred during a period of intense fighting despite the [[Minsk Protocol]] (September 2014), which aimed to establish a ceasefire. The escalation at Debaltsevo exposed the fragility of the ceasefire and led to the signing of the [[Minsk II]] agreement on February 12, 2015, as international mediators ([[France]], [[Germany]], [[Ukraine]], and [[Russia]]) sought to halt the [[violence]]. However, fighting continued even after the agreement, undermining trust in the [[peace]] process.
-The battle resulted in a significant defeat for [[AFU|Ukrainian forces]], who were encircled and forced to withdraw under heavy pressure from Donbas separatists, supported by regular Russian troops (as reported by Ukrainian and Western sources). The loss highlighted Ukraine's military vulnerabilities at the time, including issues with coordination, logistics, and equipment, while boosting the morale and territorial control of separatist forces.
+The battle resulted in a significant defeat for [[AFU|Ukrainian forces]], who were encircled and forced to withdraw under heavy pressure from Donbas separatists, supported by regular Russian troops (as reported by Ukrainian and Western sources). The loss highlighted Ukraine's military vulnerabilities at the time, including issues with coordination, [[logistics]], and equipment, while boosting the morale and territorial control of separatist forces.
 The battle caused significant casualties, with estimates of hundreds killed (both [[military]] and [[civilian]]) and thousands displaced. The intense shelling and fighting devastated Debaltsevo, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the Donbas region and drawing international attention to the plight of civilians caught in the conflict.

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 In their drive to stoke hostilities between [[the West]] and Russia, corporate media ignored the fact that the U.S. and NATO forces have been supporting openly Neo-Nazi paramilitaries in Ukraine for many years. A MintPress study of the op-ed pages of ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'' and ''The Wall Street Journal'' found that only one of 91 articles published in January 2022 mentioned this connection at all, with far more asserting that Vladimir Putin himself is Hitler incarnate. Around 90% of opinion columns pushed a “get tough on Russia” message, with anti-war voices few and far between.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/279612-2/279612/</ref>  “People who take at face value the Western media coverage would have a very distorted perception of the Ukraine conflict and its origin,” Ivan Katchanovski, Professor of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, told MintPress, adding:
 {{quotebox-float|"They omit or deny that there is a civil war in Donbas even though the majority of scholars who [have] published or presented concerning this conflict in Western academic venues classify it as a civil war with Russian military intervention. The Western media also omitted that recent ‘unity marches’ in Kharkiv and Kyiv and a staged training of civilians, including a grandmother, were organized and led by the far right, in particular, the [[Azov Battalion|Neo-Nazi Azov [Battalion].]]”<ref>https://twitter.com/I_Katchanovski/status/1490034084600594436</ref>}}
-Conducting a civilian training operation in the middle of the Donbas city of [[Mariupol]] while a crowd of Western journalists looked on, Azov units showed locals how to use rifles. The image of a silver-haired, 79-year-old “babushka” staring down the sights of an [[AK-47]] went viral around the world, allowing the media to construct an “everyone in brave Ukraine is doing their part to oppose an imminent Russian invasion” narrative. The story was covered by a host of outlets, including [[ABC News]], [[MSNBC]], [[Newsweek]], the [[BBC]], ''[[The Guardian]]'' and The Financial Times, as well as by media in [[Ireland]], [[Australia]], [[Israel]], [[Denmark]], [[Thailand]] and [[Indonesia]]. Images from the training day featured on the front cover of six national British newspapers on February 14, 2022.
+Conducting a civilian training operation in the middle of the Donbas city of [[Mariupol]] while a crowd of Western journalists looked on, Azov units showed locals how to use rifles. The image of a silver-haired, 79-year-old “babushka” staring down the sights of an [[AK-47]] went viral around the world, allowing the media to construct an “everyone in brave Ukraine is doing their part to oppose an imminent Russian invasion” [[narrative]]. The story was covered by a host of outlets, including [[ABC News]], [[MSNBC]], [[Newsweek]], the [[BBC]], ''[[The Guardian]]'' and The Financial Times, as well as by media in [[Ireland]], [[Australia]], [[Israel]], [[Denmark]], [[Thailand]] and [[Indonesia]]. Images from the training day featured on the front cover of six national British newspapers on February 14, 2022.
 This was all despite the fact that the Wolfsangel insignia of the many Azov soldiers instructing the grandmother is clearly visible in a number of the images. The Wolfsangel was the crest of the infamous [[SS]] brigades, [[Hitler]]’s elite paramilitary units that carried out the extermination of millions of people (including countless Ukrainians) in Nazi death camps across Europe. The image is widely used by Neo-Nazi groups in the U.S. and is considered a hate symbol by the [[Anti-Defamation League]]. Azov’s original commander, politician Andriy Biletsky, has stated that he sees Ukraine’s mission as to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against [[Semite]]-led subhumans.” None of the outlets above mentioned the fact that they were profiling Neo-Nazis.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-reveal-us-ned-spent-22m-promoting-anti-russia-narrative-ukraine/279734/</ref>

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 On August 26, Ukrainian nationalist battalions found themselves encircled along with a combined company of the 93rd and 17th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; On August 27, the DPR announced full control over the city of Ilovaisk.
-On August 29, Russian [[President Vladimir Putin]] called for the encircled troops to be released from the "cauldron". On August 30, through a “humanitarian corridor,” disarmed Ukrainian armed forces began evacuating from the encirclement. The three-week battle ended with the complete defeat of the [[Armed Forces of Ukraine]] grouping, and the liberation of the city became the first significant success of the Donbass militia. According to open sources, in total up to 900 Ukrainian militants died in the Ilovaisk cauldron. 128 were taken prisoner, 429 wounded, and 158 reported missing. At that time, [[Kyiv]] had never lost so many people. The defeat became the first “cauldron” for the Ukrainian army in the [[DPR]].
+On August 29, Russian [[President Vladimir Putin]] called for the encircled troops to be released from the "[[Cauldron (military)| cauldron]]". On August 30, through a “humanitarian corridor,” disarmed Ukrainian armed forces began evacuating from the encirclement. The three-week battle ended with the complete defeat of the [[Armed Forces of Ukraine]] grouping, and the liberation of the city became the first significant success of the Donbass militia. According to open sources, in total up to 900 Ukrainian militants died in the Ilovaisk cauldron. 128 were taken prisoner, 429 wounded, and 158 reported missing. At that time, [[Kyiv]] had never lost so many people. The defeat became the first “cauldron” for the Ukrainian army in the [[DPR]].
 ==Battle of Debaltsevo==

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 ==Legality of Declarations of Independence==
-The unilateral declarations of independence by the Donbas republics are completely legal and precedented by [[the West]]'s successful demands for [[Kosovo]] to be recognized as independent from [[Serbia]], and adjudicated as such by the International Courts.<ref>https://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/141</ref>
+The [[unilateral]] declarations of independence by the Donbas republics are completely legal and precedented by [[the West]]'s successful demands for [[Kosovo]] to be recognized as independent from [[Serbia]], and adjudicated as such by the International Courts.<ref>https://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/141</ref>
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 In the area of conducting military operations in Donbass there are secret SBU prisons. One of them is located at the airport of [[Mariupol]]. The location is called “the library (библиотека),<ref>https://youtu.be/2r5g0W3bTXg</ref> and its prisoners are called books”. According to Prozorov, it was possible to end up in such a prison for anything, including on suspicion of working for the Russian Federation, [[DPR]], and [[LPR]].
-The leaders of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics became victims of special operations, and not internal conflicts. “I am not omniscient, but concerning Motorola and Givi I am 100% sure that it was an operation of the special fifth department of the SBU and the special operations forces (SOF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” he specified. According to Prozorov, employees of the Special Operations Forces are constantly trained under the guidance of instructors from the [[UK]] and other countries. Their specialties are acts of [[terrorism]] and the deployment of a partisan insurrection movement.
+The leaders of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics became victims of special operations, and not internal conflicts. “I am not omniscient, but concerning Motorola and Givi I am 100% sure that it was an operation of the special fifth department of the SBU and the special operations forces (SOF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” he specified. According to Prozorov, employees of the Special Operations Forces are constantly trained under the guidance of instructors from the [[UK]] and other countries. Their specialties are acts of [[terrorism]] and the deployment of a partisan [[insurrection]] movement.
 [[Fascist]] and Nazi views are widespread in Ukrainian law enforcement structures. Prozorov noted that this concerns not only voluntary battalions, where this phenomenon is rampant, but also about linear units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and National Guard.

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 The '''Donbas war''' began on April 13, 2014, the same day [[Hunter Biden]]'s appointment to [[Burisma]] oil and gas in Ukraine was announced.<ref>https://s2.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMR_13.05.2014.mp4?_=1</ref>
-On May 2, 2014 forty-eight Russian speaking citizens of Ukraine protesting the [[Maidan coup]] were burnt alive in the [[Odessa Trade Unions House massacre]] by US-backed [[Nazi]]s{{cn}}.
+On May 2, 2014 forty-eight Russian speaking citizens of Ukraine protesting the [[Maidan coup]] were burnt alive in the [[Odessa Trade Unions House massacre]] by US-backed [[Nazi]]s.<ref>https://mronline.org/2024/05/06/10-years-of-injustice/</ref>
 in [[Mariupol]] on [[Victory Day]], May 9, 2014 the U.S.-backed [[Maidan regime]] opened fire on civilians who were celebrating the 69th anniversary of the defeat of [[Nazism]].  On June 3, 2014, [[CNN]] reported on the aerial bombing of civilians in Donbas by the U.S.-backed Maidan regime.<ref>[https://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/03/world/europe/ukraine-luhansk-building-attack/index.html Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents], Diana Magnay and Tim Lister, CNN, Updated 6:53 PM EDT, Tue June 3, 2014.</ref> Five women and three men, all civilians, were killed in the aerial bombing with at least 20 more injured.<ref>[https://youtu.be/IUchjQ_zoBs Lugansk after the bombing aircraft Ukrainian army]</ref>  The attack on Donbas residents by the [[Armed Forces of Ukraine]] and Nazi paramilitary groups with heavy weapons, artillery and aircraft by the U.S.-backed [[Kyiv regime]], with funds and training provided by the United States, continued for the next 8 years, killing 14,000.

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 Control over Ilovaisk, which is a major [[railway]] hub, allowed the Kyiv regime to form a bridgehead for an offensive on [[Donetsk]] from the east and cut off the capital of the [[DPR]] from [[Lugansk]] and the border with the [[Russian Federation]].
-On August 26, Ukrainian nationalist battalions found themselves encircled along with a combined company of the 93rd and 17th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; On August 27, the DPR announced full control over the city of Ilovaisk. According to open sources, more than 1,000 Ukrainian servicemen were killed, 128 taken prisoner, 429 wounded, and 158 reported missing.
+On August 26, Ukrainian nationalist battalions found themselves encircled along with a combined company of the 93rd and 17th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; On August 27, the DPR announced full control over the city of Ilovaisk.
-On August 29, Russian [[President Vladimir Putin]] called for the encircled troops to be released from the "cauldron". On August 30, through a “humanitarian corridor,” disarmed Ukrainian armed forces began evacuating from the encirclement;
+On August 29, Russian [[President Vladimir Putin]] called for the encircled troops to be released from the "cauldron". On August 30, through a “humanitarian corridor,” disarmed Ukrainian armed forces began evacuating from the encirclement. The three-week battle ended with the complete defeat of the [[Armed Forces of Ukraine]] grouping, and the liberation of the city became the first significant success of the Donbass militia. According to open sources, in total up to 900 Ukrainian militants died in the Ilovaisk cauldron. 128 were taken prisoner, 429 wounded, and 158 reported missing. At that time, [[Kyiv]] had never lost so many people. The defeat became the first “cauldron” for the Ukrainian army in the [[DPR]].
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-The three-week battle ended with the complete defeat of the [[Armed Forces of Ukraine]] grouping, and the liberation of the city became the first significant success of the Donbass militia. In total, up to 900 Ukrainian militants died in the Ilovaisk cauldron. At that time, [[Kyiv]] had never lost so many people. On August 29, 2014, the city of Ilovaisk was liberated from Ukrainian armed forces. The defeat became the first “cauldron” for the Ukrainian army in the [[DPR]].
 ==Battle of Debaltsevo==

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 ==Zugres beach==
-On August 13, 2014, the small Donbass town of Zugres became a target for the Ukrainian Air Force. The city beach was also shelled from Smerch MLRS, where at that time many families were vacationing with children. More than 20 people died that day, including 3 children, and dozens were injured.
+On August 13, 2014, the small Donbass town of Zugres became a target for the Ukrainian Air Force. The city beach was also shelled from Smerch [[MLRS]], where at that time many families were vacationing with children. More than 20 people died that day, including 3 children, and dozens were injured.
 ==Ukrainian kill list==

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 ==Minsk Agreements==
-A truce was negotiated between the two separatist Republics and the Kyiv regime in late 2014 and early 2015 in the [[Belarus]]ian capital of [[Minsk]] and known as the Minsk Agreements.  The Agreements were negotiated with the help of [[France]] and [[Germany]].  [[Moscow]] backed the Minsk Agreements which Kyiv also agreed to, and the [[United Nations Security Council]] endorsed the agreements as well. The Minsk Agreements would give autonomy to the two provinces while remaining part of Ukraine.  However the Ukraine regime did nothing to further implement the agreements after 2015, and only a ceasefire for the use of heavy weapons (tanks and artillery) remained in place.
+A truce was negotiated between the two separatist Republics and the Kyiv regime in late 2014 and early 2015 in the [[Belarus]]ian capital of [[Minsk]] and known as the Minsk Agreements.  The Agreements were negotiated with the help of [[France]] and [[Germany]].  [[Moscow]] backed the Minsk Agreements which Kyiv also agreed to, and the [[United Nations Security Council]] endorsed the agreements as well. The Minsk Agreements would give autonomy to the two provinces while remaining part of Ukraine.  However the Ukraine regime did nothing to further implement the agreements after 2015, and only a [[ceasefire]] for the use of heavy weapons (tanks and artillery) remained in place.
 The Minsk Agreements established a 12-point roadmap to ensure an immediate bilateral ceasefire; carry out decentralization of power, allowing temp
 orary local self-government in areas of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine under a "special status" law; immediately free all hostages and illegally detained persons; ensure monitoring on the Ukrainian-Russian border and a security zone; ensure the holding of snap local elections in Donetsk and Luhansk; remove illegal armed groups, military hardware, and all fighters and mercenaries from Ukrainian territory; pass a law against the prosecution and punishment of people over certain events in Donetsk and Luhansk region.<ref>https://archive.fo/owxxq</ref>