On 8 April 2022, Russian forces allegedly launched an attack on the Kramatorsk railway station. According to Ukrainian authorities, an additional 15 civilians were abducted by Russian soldiers and taken to separatist-occupied territory in Luhansk Oblast. On 11 March 2022, Russian tanks allegedly shelled a care home for the elderly in Kreminna, killing 56 civilians and wounding an unknown number of residents. Between 24 February and 18 April, Russian forces had not conducted much activity along the "Line of Contact," the front line which had more or less remained static since 2014, only launching small-scale reconnaissance efforts as well as small-scale artillery campaigns against Ukrainian military installations. The Siege of Mariupol began on 24 February, destroying 95% of the city and potentially killing over 22,000 civilians.
On February 24 and the present, Russian and allied forces began fighting the battle of Kharkiv, as well as numerous other small clashes aimed at capturing key Ukrainian cities. On 24 February 2022, Russia, along with the quasi-states DPR and LPR launched an invasion across numerous fronts, including in the Donbas. Between 2014 and late 2021, the war in Donbas had taken the lives of more than 10,000 separatist, Russian, and Ukrainian combatants, as well as 3,095 civilians. The Donbas region had been the site of protracted fighting between Russia-backed separatists from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics and the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As the Ukrainian forces regained previously occupied territory, Russian war crimes - including the Bucha massacre - were discovered. The tactical withdrawal of Russian Armed Forces from the north was completed by 6 April 2022. They also stated that the DPR and LPR controlled 54% and 93% of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, respectively. Russian military officials declared that the Ukrainian Navy and Air Force had been neutralized. This effectively ended Russian operations in northern Ukraine and in Northeastern Ukraine. On 29 March 2022, they declared that they intended to scale back their military operations in the region around the capital city of Kyiv. On 25 March 2022, Russian officials declared that the first phase of the "special military operation" in Ukraine was complete.
Military analysts consider the battle to be part of the second strategic phase of the invasion. The battle began on 18 April 2022 between the armed forces of Russia and Ukraine for control of the provinces ( oblasts) of Donetsk and Luhansk. The battle of Donbas is an ongoing military engagement that is part of the wider eastern Ukraine offensive of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Resistance movement in occupied Ukraine.
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