Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Rikicin soja tsakanin 'yan tawaye masu goyon bayan Rasha (wanda sojojin Rasha ke tallafawa) da Sojojin Ukraine sun fara a yankin Donbass a watan Afrilun 2014. A ranar 5 ga Satumba 2014 gwamnatin Ukraine da wakilan da suka ayyana kansu a matsayin Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Donetsk da Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Luhansk sun rattaba hannu kan yarjejeniyar tsagaita wuta (yarjejeniyar tsagaita wuta). Hukuncin tsagaita wuta ya rushe a cikin sabon tashin hankali.
a cikin Janairu 2015. Wani sabon yarjejeniyar tsagaita wuta ya fara aiki tun daga tsakiyar watan Fabrairun 2015, amma wannan yarjejeniyar ta kasa dakatar da fadace-fadace. NATO da Ukraine sun zargi Rasha da shiga cikin ayyukan soja kai tsaye don tallafawa Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Donetsk da Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Luhansk. Rasha ta musanta wannan, amma a watan Disamba na shekarar 2015, Shugaban Tarayyar Rasha Vladimir Putin ya yarda cewa jami'an leken asirin sojan Rasha suna aiki a Ukraine, duk da cewa sun dage cewa ba daidai suke da sojoji na yau da kullun ba. Rasha ta yarda cewa "masu sa kai" na Rasha suna taimakawa 'yan tawaye Jamhuriyar Jama'a.