I meant separatist ringleaders. Night 1 - they take over Kharkiv admin building and declare a People's Republic. Night 2 - SBU commandos raid the building, arrest some 70 (later exchanged), no one killed (some have died earlier in the clashes between protesters and counter-protesters and the attacks on police stations), the largest of the 3 people's republics is over.
It was in early 2014, the first phase of the "Anti-Terror Operation".
It didn't work out in Donetsk because a column of the SBU was ambushed by "Strelkov" and his Russians-from-Russia, killing 3 Alfa and turning them back. He later bragged about how he alone started the war.
"If our unit hadn't crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out — like in [the Ukrainian city of] Kharkiv, like in Odessa," Strelkov, who uses that nom-de-guerre meaning "Shooter" to replace his last name Girkin, was quoted as saying.
I meant separatist ringleaders. Night 1 - they take over Kharkiv admin building and declare a People's Republic. Night 2 - SBU commandos raid the building, arrest some 70 (later exchanged), no one killed (some have died earlier in the clashes between protesters and counter-protesters and the attacks on police stations), the largest of the 3 people's republics is over.
This is recent? What's your source? Not doubting just would like to read for myself, haven't heard these kind of details at all.
Everything I come across is just mainstream propoganda with fog of war
It was in early 2014, the first phase of the "Anti-Terror Operation".
It didn't work out in Donetsk because a column of the SBU was ambushed by "Strelkov" and his Russians-from-Russia, killing 3 Alfa and turning them back. He later bragged about how he alone started the war.
"Strelkov" bragging but he's right, it was him who did it: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/11/21/russias-igor-strelkov-i-am-responsible-for-war-in-eastern-ukraine-a41598