Battle for Mariupol
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Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol on May 9, 2014
| date | May 9, 2014 to June 13, 2014 |
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Mariupol , Donetsk Oblast , Ukraine
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| output | Restoration of order by the Ukrainian security forces |
| consequences | Ukrainian forces gained full control of Mariupol and the immediate vicinity |
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| losses | |
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20 killed (16 soldiers, 4 police officers) |
26 |
war in Ukraine
The pro-Russian uprising in Mariupol took place between security forces of Ukraine and the pro-Russian forces known as the People's Militia in the city of Mariupol on the Azov Sea . The clashes in the city occurred between May 9 and June 13, 2014 and ended with the Ukrainian security forces taking control of the city.
prehistory
After pro-Russian militias took control of government buildings in parts of Donetsk Oblast in April 2014 , they also occupied the city council in Mariupol. On April 16, 300 pro-Russian gunmen attacked a Ukrainian army base in Mariupol. Three attackers died and several were injured. According to the Ukrainian government, the government building was liberated by April 24th.
More clashes
According to the Ukrainian government, a police station was attacked by around 60 armed men on May 9, 2014. As a result, several Ukrainian National Guard troop transports drove into the city center, where they encountered resistance from civilians. The troop carriers broke through several barricades and opened fire on the police station, whereupon the police station caught fire. According to the Ukrainian government, 20 gunmen and one policeman were killed. After the battle, the National Guard withdrew from the city center.
After the operations, a kind of vigilante group of the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov's steel workers was formed to restore order and quiet in the city.
On the morning of June 13, 2014, the National Guard , supported by the Azov Regiment , led by Andrij Bilezkyj, attacked the occupied buildings of the city administration and the theater. 5 pro-Russian gunmen and 2 Ukrainian soldiers were killed. On the same day, according to Ukrainian sources, the militias apparently under the command of a Chechen were evicted from the city.
Attack across the Russian border
On August 24, 2014, Ukrainian authorities reported that their troops were under artillery fire in Novoazovsk on the Black Sea, on the border with the Russian Federation. Main battle tanks and armored vehicles from Russia, supported by insurgents, would have forced the Ukrainian troops to withdraw. The invaders prevented the civilian population from fleeing. Observers were convinced that the vehicles could only have penetrated into Ukraine from the territory of the Russian Federation and that the city could not be shelled with the usual artillery systems from the known rebel positions in Ukraine.
The Russian or pro-Russian forces subsequently advanced beyond Schyrokyne on Mariupol. Even after the September 5th armistice, the militia leaders expressed their intention to take Mariupol. By April 2015, after 30 civilians were killed in an attack by enemy forces in Mariupol on January 25, the Ukrainian troops were able to push the front back to Schyrokyne. In spring 2018, those responsible for the fire attack on Mariupol on January 25th were named by the investigative network Bellingcat .
In April 2015 the OSCE tried to calm this front, which never came to rest even under the second armistice in Minsk and from which a withdrawal of heavy weapons had never begun, by means of day and night surveillance.
Russian observers immediately suspected that the attack on Mariupol could be an attempt by Russia to establish a land connection with Crimea.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ukraine-124.html ( Memento from June 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Avakov: A sniper fired at people from the roof of the hospital in Mariupol , pravda.ua, May 9, 2014
- ^ A special-forces unit, started from scratch, wins a key battle in Ukraine , June 21, 2014
- ↑ Kuzmenko, a pro-Russian rebel commander, talks to locals outside the town hall in Mariupol , May 4, 2014
- ↑ Putin: Ukraine government heading towards 'abyss' , BBC, April 17, 2014
- ↑ Ukraine Crisis: Mariupol City Hall 'Liberated' by Government Forces Ibtimes.co.uk April 24, 2014
- ^ Dead in fighting in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol , Deutsche Welle, May 9, 2014
- ^ Mariupol roadblocks under the control of the armed forces, 8 wounded soldiers , pravda.ua, May 9, 2014
- ↑ Ukraine: 'Blood bath' in Mariupol , BBC, May 9, 2014
- ^ Steel workers against separatists - The oligarch's cleaning force , SPON, May 16, 2014
- ↑ [1] , BBC, June 13, 2014
- ↑ [2] , Aljazeera, June 13, 2014
- ↑ Christian Lowe and Maria Tsvetkova: "Exclusive: In Ukraine, an armored column appears out of nowhere" Reuters of August 26, 2014, viewed on August 26, 2014
- ↑ Annie Gowen and Karoun Demirjian: Ukraine accuses Russia of stepping up military activity in Crimea Wp on August 27, 2014, viewed on August 27, 2014
- ↑ Bellingcat: The Russian military was involved in the 2015 bombing of Mariupol , Novaya Gazeta, May 7, 2018
- ↑ Pro-Russian Army commits itself - major offensive on Mariupol has begun , n-tv, January 25, 2015; Retrieved January 25, 2015
- ↑ Interview with OSCE Deputy Chief - “We saw Russian soldiers” , n-tv, April 11, 2015
- ↑ The Shot Too Many , The Time, April 16, 2015
- ↑ Putin's calculations , January 25, 2015