Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion

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Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion
Part of the war in Donbas
Ukrainian troops at Savur-Mohyla, June 2014
Date 16 July – 26 August 2014 (1 month, 1 week and 3 days) Location Shakhtarsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine Result DPR victory Shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 DPR forces recapture Savur-Mohyla
Belligerents
Ukraine	Donetsk People's Republic  Russia (Denied by Russia)
Commanders and leaders
Viktor Muzhenko Timur Yuldashev †	Igor Girkin Aleksandr Zakharchenko
Units involved
Ukrainian Armed Forces Ukrainian Ground Forces 30th OMBr 72nd OMBr OPBr Ukrainian Air Assault Forces 79th ODShBr Ukrainian Air Force Internal Affairs Ministry: National Guard Azov Battalion Right Sector Ukrainian Volunteer Corps	Donbass People's Militia: Oplot Battalion Vostok Battalion[1]  Russian volunteers Russian Armed Forces (from 24 August)[2][3]
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown
One civilian plane shot down, 298 civilians killed

The Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion began on 16 July 2014, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to cut off the Russian backed separatists’ supply lines from Russia. Fighting broke out around the towns of Marynivka, Dmytrivka, Stepanivka, Shakhtarsk, as well as the strategic hill of Savur-Mohyla. It later spread to the cities of Snizhne and Torez. While the battle was in progress, a civilian passenger airliner, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, was shot down near Hrabove on 17 July. Amidst a wide counter-offensive by the Russian proxy forces and their Russian backers across Donbas, government troops were forced out of Shakhtarsk Raion on 26 August.