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Developments in eastern Ukraine

Military operation in eastern Ukraine: first anniversary

More than 6.1 thousand. people were killed during the conflict in Donbas, according to the UN
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Militia checkpoint damaged by fighting in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, April 2014
© AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka
Charred skeletons of vans and a bus after the fighting and shelling in Kramatorsk , Ukraine, May 2014
© AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka
Local residents near a burnt out military vehicle in the aftermath of a military clash between Donetsk region militia and the Ukrainian government's forces near the village of Oktyabrskoye, Donetsk region, May 2014
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Pochuyev
Ukrainian Army soldiers during a military operation against the militia the Andreevka village, Ukraine, May 2014
© AP Photo/Manu Brabo
Local residents cry inside their house destroyed during a Ukrainian forces night shelling, Donetsk region, May 2014
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Pochuyev
A burning cafe after impact of a mortar bomb, during fighting between Ukrainian government troops and militia at a checkpoint near the major highway outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, May 2014
© AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh
Local residents of Semyonovka village in Donetsk region, whose homes were affected by heavy artillery shelling by the Ukrainian forces, May 2014
© ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Pochuyev
Local ambulance medics inspecting the body of woman, killed by shrapnel following a shelling from Ukrainian government forces in Slovyansk, Ukraine, May 2014
© AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko
Debris of an apartment building abandoned by residents after shelling in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, June 2014
© AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka
A woman near her burning house after shelling in the city of Slovyansk, Donetsk region, June 2014
© AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky
A house destroyed in an air strike carried out by Ukrainian armed forces on Stanitsa Luganskaya village, Luhansk region, July 2014
© ITAR-TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov
A church damaged in a shelling attack in Krasnodon village, Luhansk region, July 2014
© ITAR-TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov
Aftermath of a shelling in Mykolaivka, eastern Ukraine, July 2014
© AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka
A damaged apartment in a residential neighbourhood of Luhansk in the aftermath of a shell attack by mobile units of the Ukrainian armed forces, July 2014
© ITAR-TASS/Stanislav Krasilnikov
Ukrainian soldier taking cover after firing a mortar during fighting against militia, close to Ilovaysk town in Donetsk region, August 2014
© EPA/ROMAN PILIPEY
A house on fire in the aftermath of an overnight shelling attack by the Ukrainian government's troops, Donetsk region, November 2014
© Mikhail Pochuyev/TASS
Aftermath of a shelling attack on a passenger bus near the eastern Ukraine town of Volnovakha in Donetsk region, January 2015
© AP photo/Mykola Ryabchenko
Damaged Putilovsky Bridge near the Donetsk Airport, the site of military fighting between the Ukrainian government's troops and Donetsk militia, January 2015
© Nikolai Muravyev/TASS
A militia man at a checkpoint in Debaltsevo, Ukraine after the town was left by Ukrainian military, February 2015
© AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda

On April 15, 2014 a military operation against federalization supporters in eastern Ukrainian Donbas region was announced in Ukraine. More than 6.1 thousand. people were killed and almost 15.5 thousand. injured during the conflict in Donbas, according to the UN. TASS recalls the year of military operation in eastern Ukraine in this photo gallery.

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