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Section size for War in Donbas (53 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	27,736	27,736
Background	6,999	13,027
Protests	6,028	6,028
Proxy war	2,974	142,466
Militants seize towns	2,499	18,151
Sloviansk	5,319	5,319
Kramatorsk	1,576	1,576
Horlivka	3,678	3,678
Other settlements	5,079	5,079
Government counter-offensive: "the Anti-Terrorist Operation"	27,268	27,268
May 2014: post-referendum fighting	13,197	16,959
Airport battle and fighting in Luhansk	3,762	3,762
Escalation in May and June 2014	1,525	22,932
Luhansk border post siege	1,266	1,266
2 June Luhansk airstrike	2,876	2,876
Continued fighting	4,208	4,208
Russian tank incursion	7,210	7,210
Ilyushin Il-76 shoot-down	1,190	1,190
Battle of Yampil	4,657	4,657
July 2014: post-ceasefire government offensive	12,202	12,202
Fighting worsens in eastern Donetsk Oblast	4,845	4,845
Downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17	4,425	4,425
Government push into Donetsk and Luhansk cities	32,710	32,710
Open war between Russia and Ukraine	130	127,600
August 2014 invasion by Russian forces	24,576	24,576
September 2014 ceasefire	13,786	13,786
November 2014 separatist elections and aftermath	11,230	11,230
Escalation in January 2015	18,226	18,226
Minsk II ceasefire and denouement	13,702	13,702
January 2017 eruption of heavy fighting and failed ceasefires	22,250	22,250
October 2019 Steinmeier formula agreement and July 2020 ceasefire	7,687	7,687
2021–2022 escalation	14,199	14,199
2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine	1,814	1,814
Combatants	18	26,179
List of combatants	157	157
Russian involvement	24,074	24,074
Military aid to Ukraine	1,930	1,930
Casualties	758	11,962
Civilians	1,945	1,945
Ukrainian forces	1,552	1,552
Separatist forces	7,707	7,707
Humanitarian concerns	8,505	13,699
Displaced population	5,194	5,194
Reactions	16	19,737
Ukrainian public opinion	4,915	4,915
Russia	1,616	1,616
International reactions	413	413
Labelling of the conflict	12,777	12,777
See also	263	263
Notes	26	26
References	30	30
Further reading	100	100
External links	2,565	2,565
Total	385,390	385,390

International Coalition in support of Ukraine was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 11 February 2018 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into War in Donbas. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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RM, War in Donbas → War in Donbas (2014–2022), Moved, 5 June 2022, discussion
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Article is too big[edit]

WP:TOOBIG needs to be applied; this article is oversized. 182.239.148.125 (talk) 09:01, 28 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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