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* [[Sergei Shoigu]] | * [[Sergei Shoigu]] | ||
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* [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]] | * [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]] (until 2023) | ||
* Alexander Zakharchenko<br />(2014–2018) | * Alexander Zakharchenko<br />(2014–2018) | ||
* Denis Pushilin<br />(2018–present) | * Denis Pushilin<br />(2018–present) | ||
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==Impact== | ==Impact== | ||
===In Ukraine and Russia=== | ===In Ukraine and Russia=== | ||
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Un-chart-of-civilian-deaths-in-donbass-war-2018-2021.png|UN Human Rights Commission chart analyzing percentages of civilian deaths in LDPR territory vs. Ukrainian government-controlled territory. | Un-chart-of-civilian-deaths-in-donbass-war-2018-2021.png|UN Human Rights Commission chart analyzing percentages of civilian deaths in LDPR territory vs. Ukrainian government-controlled territory. | ||
Bakhmut during the battle (2023-04-05), frame 16531.jpg|Bakhmut in April 2023. | Bakhmut during the battle (2023-04-05), frame 16531.jpg|Bakhmut in April 2023. | ||
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Ukraine dismantles a statue of Lenin in 2014 as part of decommunization; President Vladimir Putin's televised speech announcing the 24 February 2022 Special Military Operation; Ukrainian forces using Soviet-era BM-21 "Grad" in 2015; Right Sector torchlit rally in Kiev in 2015; 2014 "Feast of Solidarity" in Donetsk, featuring crowds with DPR flags. | |||||||||
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The Russia-Ukraine conflict is an ongoing ethno-linguistic post-Soviet conflict between Russian and Ukrainian people in modern Ukraine which has been exploited and turned into a proxy war between NATO and the Russian Federation.
The conflict originated with the 2014 Euromaidan color revolution, in which a US-backed[citation needed] coalition of right-wing and liberal[citation needed] protestors overthrew the pro-Russian President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. In the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, major portions of two majority-Russian oblasts, Donetsk and Lugansk, seceded in response to the new government's changes in policy towards use of the Russian language. The Ukrainian government launched a full invasion, or "Anti-Terrorist Operation", of the seceding regions, prompting the Russian government to send unmarked troops[citation needed] to aid the rebels. Tensions also arose in the historically Russian-speaking Crimean peninsula, resulting in the Russian Federation occupying and then annexing the peninsula amid widespread Crimean support.[citation needed] Fighting was mostly limited to the Donbass until February 2022, when Russian forces launched a full invasion, or "special military operation", supplemented by aerial attacks on military targets throughout the country. Since 2014, the war has resulted in at least 10,000 deaths, including those of civilians.
Impact
In Ukraine and Russia
UN Human Rights Commission chart analyzing percentages of civilian deaths in LDPR territory vs. Ukrainian government-controlled territory.
Bakhmut in April 2023.
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Notes
References
- ↑ "'Terrible toll': Russia's invasion of Ukraine in numbers". Euractiv. 14 February 2023.
- ↑ Hussain, Murtaza (9 March 2023). "The War in Ukraine Is Just Getting Started". The Intercept.