Siege of Sloviansk

Date	12 April – 5 July 2014 (2 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
Location	Sloviansk and outskirts Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Result	DPR forces withdraw to Donetsk Ukrainian forces recapture Sloviansk

Belligerents

Ukraine

Donetsk People's Republic

Commanders and leaders

Oleksandr Turchynov (until June 2014, succeeded by Petro Poroshenko)

Arsen Avakov

Maj. Gen. Serhiy Kulchytskiy †

Stepan Poltorak

Dmytro Yarosh

Vyacheslav Ponomarev

Volodymyr Pavlenko

Col. Igor Strelkov

Arseny Pavlov

Sergei Zhurikov () †

Alexander Mozhaev ()

Units involved

Armed Forces of Ukraine:

Internal Affairs Ministry:

Security Service (SBU)

SBU Alpha Group

Right Sector

Donbass People's Militia:

Pro-Russian local volunteers
Cossack National Guard
- Russian volunteers
Chechen volunteers
1st Slavyansk Battalion

45th Airborne Division(Denied by Russia)

Strength

15,000+ personnel
160 tanks
230 APCs
150+ artillery pieces
20 helicopters
At least 2 other aircraft

800–1,000 fighters
6 captured APCs

Casualties and losses

51 killed, 40 captured
2 SBU agents killed
and 3 captured
1 police chief captured
4 Mi-24 attack helicopters,
2 Mi-8 transport
helicopters
and 1 An-30 surveillance plane shot down
3 Mi-24 attack helicopters,
2 Mi-8 transport
helicopters
and 1 An-30 surveillance plane damaged

34–54 killed
and 4 captured
Several APCs and at least one tank

~20 civilians killed
17 civilians and foreigners missing or kidnapped
1 Italian photojournalist and 1 Russian interpreter killed

Armed Forces of Ukraine:

Internal Affairs Ministry:

Security Service (SBU)

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