Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 13 ga Afrilu, 2014, ayyukan soja na yaƙi a gabas sun fara, bayan kama Sloviansk
Donetsk yankin da Rasha sabotage ƙungiyoyin karkashin umurnin Igor Girkin. Afrilu 30, 2014 mai mukamin Shugaban Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov ya umurci shugabannin gwamnatocin yankuna da su fara kirkirar batala'in kare yankin a kowane yanki na Ukraine. An ba da aikin ƙirƙirar bataliya ga hukumomi da kwamishinoni na soja a yankuna na kowane yanki na Ukraine.