Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present) | |||||||||
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Part of the Ukrainian crisis and 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine | |||||||||
Areas held by the insurgents and Russia Areas under the control of Ukraine (Image last updated on: 11 September 2014.) |
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Russia In Crimea: Republic of Crimea Sevastopol In Donbass: Donetsk PR Luhansk PR |
Ukraine | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Vladimir Putin Sergey Shoygu Valery Gerasimov Igor Sergun Aleksandr Vitko Denis Berezovsky Alexander Lentsov Sergey Aksyonov Alexander Zakharchenko Igor Plotnitsky |
Petro Poroshenko Stepan Poltorak Mykhailo Kutsyn Serhiy Hayduk |
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Units involved | |||||||||
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Strength | |||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
400–500 Russian soldiers killed (acc. U.S. DoS), 12 captured Unknown number of Donbass separatists killed 1 Crimean SDF trooper killed |
2,423 killed, 6,820 wounded, 378 missing, 2,768 captured |
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Over 8,000 killed overall (including 304 foreign civilians) |