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| Battles of Sieverodonetsk | |||||||||
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| Part ofWar in Donbas | |||||||||
 A bridge connecting Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk destroyed in the fighting | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Ukraine |  Luhansk People's Republic | ||||||||
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 Army of the Southeast | |||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 17 killed 48 wounded 2 armored vehicles destroyed | 42+ killed 100+ wounded | ||||||||
Thebattles of Sievierodonetsk were a series of battles between Ukrainian troops andLuhansk People's Republic formations during thewar in Donbas in and around the Eastern Ukrainian cluster of cities ofRubizhne,Lysychansk, andSieverodonetsk for control.
On 22 May 2014, a convoy from the30th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered the city ofRubizhne. After that, it turned towardsLysychansk andSievierodonetsk. Along the way, the convoy was fired upon with grenade launchers and small arms by LPR separatists fromPavel Dryomov's detachment. During the battle,Ukrainian Armed Forces lost two infantry fighting vehicles and a cargo Ural with an anti-aircraft gun in the back.[3][4]
At the end of May 2014, there was heavy fighting between LPR separatists and units of theNational Guard of Ukraine. The media reported on the use by the Ukrainian army of mortars, howitzers,Tyulpan self-propelled mortars andGrad multiple launch rocket systems.
On 22 July 2014, the LPR separatists retreated from Sievierodonetsk. Units of the National Guard of Ukraine entered the city.[citation needed]
On 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.[5] The fighting continued until 24 July, when in the city of Lysychansk, a Colonel of the NSU[clarification needed]Alexander Vitalyevich Radievsky [ru], who was posthumously awarded the rank of Major General, was killed by separatists.[6]
