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Battle of Artemivsk | |||||||
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Part of the War in Donbas | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Ukraine | Donetsk People's Republic | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Oleksandr Trepak | |||||||
Units involved | |||||||
National Guard of Ukraine | DPR Militia |
The battle of Artemivsk was a 2014 battle fought in the city of Artemivsk (historically and since 2016 known as Bakhmut) during the war in Donbas in eastern Ukraine as part of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War. It involved armed confrontation between the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine against pro-Russian militias fighting for the Donetsk People’s Republic.