Fighting over Donetsk Airport

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There is still a major war on in Ukraine, shocking I know because you would never hear of it from main stream media.

So Donetsk airport in Ukraine has been a hot spot for fighting between Russian/Ukrainian seperatists and Ukranian loyalist forces since August. In fact there is fighting go on right now as I type this, this footage is from September however when a major attack led by Russian regulars and Russian equipped separatists (The tanks mainly, they are Russian T-72 B3's so if anyone has any reservations that Russia's got nothing to do with this you are horribly wrong) aimed to seize the other half of the airport from Ukrainian forces. If you don't have time to watch all of it I recommend starting at about 14 minutes when they are getting the tanks ready to go. Long story short the Russian and separatist forces took a very serious pounding, losing a few tanks and a lot of men. Reports have said that that was a unit of Russian paratroopers or special forces that were almost completely wiped out, of course Russia vehemently denies this. The fighting over this airport has become a major morale boost for the loyalist Ukrainians who have seen great success since being pushed back during the summer after a major Russian counter attack.



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To contrast with that video, and don't watch this until you've seen at least a bit of it, this is Donetsk airport circa December 2014, its looks almost apocalyptic, heavy fighting is still going on over it, the Russians/separatists have started calling the Ukrainians there the "cyborgs" because they will not die. Ukraine continuously rotates fresh troops in and out of the positions as well so that nick name isn't entirely accurate.

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Last Edit: January 15, 2015, 07:33:45 PM by Raptorx7


 
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Good to see the Ukranians holding Dontesk. A few months ago I was kinda worried they were about to fall under the surge of russian but not russian (swear on Putin's mom, sir) troops and equipment.


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Where are the pravy sector stationed Raptor?


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Where are the pravy sector stationed Raptor?

I am not to keen on individual units in Ukraine, can you expand on that?


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Where are the pravy sector stationed Raptor?

I am not to keen on individual units in Ukraine, can you expand on that?

The right-wing nationalists that were the driving force behind the Euro Maidan protests when it got violent.

These guys are Pravy sektor





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Where are the pravy sector stationed Raptor?

I am not to keen on individual units in Ukraine, can you expand on that?

The right-wing nationalists that were the driving force behind the Euro Maidan protests when it got violent.

These guys are Pravy sektor





I won't speak on them specifically (Mainly because I don't know enough about one single group honestly), but what I will say is there are many separatist factions operating in eastern Ukraine, some even fight against the Russians and want complete autonomy for the region. There are reports of Russian special forces moving into eastern Ukraine and killing militia leaders who are not obeying orders, or actively carrying out attacks on Russian convoys, for example that "humanitarian: convoy that the Russians sent recently was harassed by a group like that.


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>that guy on the left holding an airshit


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Good to see the Ukranians holding Dontesk. A few months ago I was kinda worried they were about to fall under the surge of russian but not russian (swear on Putin's mom, sir) troops and equipment.

It will be interesting to see what the Russians do during Spring/summer.