Kammala wannan jumla: A ranar 13 ga Afrilu, 2014, ayyukan soja na yaki a gabas sun fara, bayan
kama yankin Sloviansk Donetsk ta rukunin 'yan ta'adda na Rasha karkashin jagorancin 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.