Timeline of the war in Donbas (2016)

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Timeline of the war in Donbas
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This is a timeline of the war in Donbas for the year 2016.

Contents

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Battle of Avdiivka (2017)</span> 2017 battle in the war in Donbas

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Timeline of the war in Donbas (2014)</span>

This is a timeline of the war in Donbas for the year 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Timeline of the war in Donbas (2015)</span> List of events during the war in Donbas in 2015

This is a timeline of the war in Donbas for the year 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Timeline of the war in Donbas (2020)</span>

This is a timeline of the war in Donbas for the year 2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Timeline of the war in Donbas (2017)</span>

This is a timeline of the war in Donbas, from 1 January 2017. The timeline follows an ongoing conflict between Ukraine and anti-government pro-Russian separatists supported by Russian troops in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.

This is a timeline of the war in Donbas for the year 2021.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fights on the Ukrainian–Russian border (2014)</span>

Fights on the Ukrainian–Russian border in 2014, also famous as "Operation to restore the state border", "Battle at the border", Battle in sector D , – an episode of the war in eastern Ukraine, the battle of anti-terrorist operation forces against illegal armed groups supported by Russian artillery in the border areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions during summer campaign in Donbass. Fighting broke out in Sector D of the anti-terrorist operation during the "operation to restore the state border" during June–August 2014. The main task of the Anti-Terrorist Operation Forces was to restore control over the section of the state border Izvaryne – Kumachovo and to cut the routes for illegal armed groups.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Timeline of the war in Donbas (2018)</span>

This is the timeline of the war in Donbas for the year 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Timeline of the war in Donbas (2022)</span>

This is a timeline of the war in Donbas in early 2022. On 24 February 2022, the war in Donbas was subsumed into the eastern Ukraine campaign of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Timeline of the war in Donbas (2019)</span>

This is the timeline of the war in Donbas for the year 2019. More than 110 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the conflict between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists in 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Battle of Pisky</span> Battle during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The battle of Pisky was a series of military engagements for control of the ghost town of Pisky, located just outside of the city of Donetsk, between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the allied separatist Donetsk People's Republic during the battle for Donbas of the eastern Ukraine campaign. Russian and separatist forces fully captured Pisky on 24 August 2022.

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