Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Agusta 2014, "Tsarin Yaki da Ta'addanci" na Ukraine ya sami damar rage yawan yankin da ke karkashin ikon sojojin da ke goyon bayan Rasha, kuma ya kusa dawo da ikon kan iyakar Rasha da Ukraine. Igor Girkin ya bukaci shiga tsakani na soja na Rasha, kuma ya ce rashin gogewar yaƙin sojojinsa na yau da kullun, tare da wahalar daukar ma'aikata a tsakanin jama'ar yankin a yankin Donetsk ya haifar da koma baya. Ya yi magana da shugaban Rasha Vladimir Putin, yana cewa: "Rashin wannan yaƙin a kan yankin da Shugaba Vladimir Putin da kansa ya kira New Russia zai yi barazana ga ikon Kremlin kuma, da kaina, ikon shugaban". Dangane da mummunan halin da ake ciki a cikin Donbas, Rasha ta yi watsi da tsarin haɗin gwiwa, kuma ta fara mamaye yankin na al'ada. Alamar farko ta wannan mamayewar ita ce ranar 25 ga watan Agusta, 2014 da rundunar tsaro ta Ukraine (SBU) ta kama wani rukuni na 'yan bindigar Rasha da ke aiki a yankin Ukraine. SBU ta fitar da hotunan su, da sunayensu. Kashegari, Ma'aikatar Tsaro ta Rasha ta ce wadannan sojojin sun tsallaka iyaka "ba da gangan ba". Dangane da ƙididdigar Nikolai Mitrokhin, a tsakiyar watan Agusta 2014 yayin Yaƙin Ilovaisk
, akwai tsakanin sojoji 20,000 zuwa 25,000 da ke yaƙi a cikin Donbas a gefen masu rabuwa, kuma tsakanin 40% zuwa 45% ne kawai "na gida".