Battles of Sievierodonetsk (2014)
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| Battles of Severodonetsk | |||||||||
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| Part of War in Donbas | |||||||||
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 Ukraine |
 Luhansk People's Republic | ||||||||
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 Army of the Southeast | ||||||||
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Battles of Severodonetsk was a series of battles between Ukrainian troops and Luhansk People's Republic formations during armed conflict in eastern Ukraine in cities and around cities Lisichansk agglomeration (Rubezhnoye, Lisichansk, Severodonetsk) for control over these cities (there were no battles in Severodonetsk itself).
Timeline[edit]
On 22 May 2014 a convoy from the 30th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered the city of Rubezhnoye. After that, she turned towards Lysychanska and Severodonetska. Along the way, the convoy was fired upon with grenade launchers and small arms by LPR separatists from the detachment Pavel Dryomov. During the battle, Ukrainian Armed Forces lost two infantry fighting vehicles and a cargo Ural with an anti-aircraft gun in the back.[citation needed]
At the end of May 2014, there was heavy fighting between LPR separatists and units of the National Guard of Ukraine. The media reported on the use by the Ukrainian army of mortars, howitzers, Tulpan self-propelled mortars and Grad multiple launch rocket systems.
On 22 July 2014 the LPR separatists retreated from Severodonetsk. Units of the National Guard of Ukraine entered the city.[1][2]
As of 23 July 2014, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine continued to engage in street fighting with the separatists. According to the fighters of the National Guard, they found one howitzer, more than 50 kilograms of plastids, 15 high-explosive shells and other ammunition in the city.[3] The fighting continued until 24 July, when in the city of Lisichansk, a Colonel of the NSU Radievsky, who was posthumously awarded the rank of Major General, was killed by separatists[citation needed].