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RESEARCH PAPER
Armaments used in the Ukrainian conflict 2014–2015
| 1 | Ministry of National Defence, Republic of Lithuania |
Online publication date: 2017-06-23
Publication date: 2017-06-30
Security and Defence Quarterly 2017;15(2):54–84
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
The development of events in Ukraine at the end of 2014 led to the outbreak of armed
fighting in Donbas, where virtually all kinds of land forces’ arms were used, not only of Soviet
or Russian production but also the latest ones and armaments that had been previously
withdrawn from operation. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the armaments used
during the fighting in the Donbas region, innovations in weaponry and tactics in the period
from April 2014 to the middle of February 2015. The study is based on the qualitative
analysis of primary source materials from photographs and video clips available in free
circulation as well as information shared in online forums (particularly Russian ones) and
unstructured interviews with the participants of those events. The findings of the study
pertain to the kinds of Soviet and Russian land forces’ armaments in a real combat situation
as well as the tactics involved in using them.
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