Battle of Artemivsk

Battle of Artemivsk
	Part of the War in Donbas
Date	12 April – 6 July 2014; (2 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
Location	Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine (now Bakhmut)
Result	Ukrainian victory
Belligerents
Ukraine	Donetsk People's Republic
Commanders and leaders
	Oleksandr Trepak
Units involved
Ukrainian Ground Forces 3rd Special Purpose Regiment; National Guard of Ukraine	DPR Militia

The battle of Artemivsk was a 2014 battle fought in the city of Artemivsk (historically and since 2016 known as Bakhmut) during the war in Donbas in eastern Ukraine as part of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War. It involved armed confrontation between the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine against pro-Russian militias fighting for the Donetsk People’s Republic.

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