2014-15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine
| Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present) |
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| Part of the Ukrainian crisis and pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine | |||||||||
 Areas held by the insurgents and Russia Areas under the control of Ukraine (Image last updated on: 26 June 2017.) |
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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In Crimea:  Republic of Crimea SevastopolIn Donbass:  Donetsk PR Luhansk PR
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Supported by:  NATO(arms, military exercises, and general aid) |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
 Vladimir Putin Sergey Shoygu Valery Gerasimov Igor Korobov Aleksandr Vitko Denis Berezovsky Alexander LentsovIn Crimea: Sergey AksyonovIn Donbass: Alexander Zakharchenko Valery Bolotov(May-Aug 2014) Igor Plotnitsky(2014–17) Leonid Pasechnik(since 2017) |
 Oleksandr Turchynov(Feb-Jun 2014) Petro Poroshenko(since 2014)  Stepan Poltorak Mykhailo Kutsyn Serhiy Hayduk
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| Units involved | |||||||||
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 Special Operations Forces
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| Strength | |||||||||
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Crimean Force: 25,000–30,000 Black Sea Fleet: 11,000 (including Marines) 30 + Warships (incl. submarine) 4 Squadrons of fighter aircraft (18 planes each) Reinforcements: 16,000–42,000 In Donbass: 7,500+ Russian infantry |
 Armed Forces of Ukraine: +232,000 |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 3,602–4,096 killed | 2,423 killed, 6,820 wounded, 378 missing, 2,768 captured 15,000 defected to Russia |
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| Over 8,000 killed overall (including 304 foreign civilians) |
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