The port town of Mariupol, located on the coast of the Azov Sea, was always one of the most pro-Russian cities in all of Ukraine, featuring a trade port and 2 gigantic Soviet metallurgical facilities, the Azovstal and Ilich factories. (1) The city in 2014 had one of the largest anti-Maidan protests in the entire country and temporarily was controlled by the DNR then, but the Ukrainian Army used violence and help from armed militias to suppress these protests. (2)

The small railway hub of Volnovakha since 2014 was at the edge of the contact line checkpoints and deep networks. of fortification protecting the vital northern supply route of Mariupol.(1)
As Russian forces intervened in February 2022, one of the main objectives became the capture of Mariupol, so in order to achieve its encirclement and isolate part of the Ukrainian forces from Mariupol itself, the capture of Volnovakha became a necessity. (2)

This thread will talk about the Southern Ukraine Front in the early part of the war. We have already talked about the Kherson counteroffensive, but now we will discuss how Russian forces managed to capture this territory in the first place. (1) The units guarding the Russo-Ukrainian border in Crimea at the time of the Russian invasion were the 137th Marine Battalion of the 35th Brigade, along with border guards. (2)

Battle of Kiev Thread (1) This thread will talk about the protracted battles around Kiev (I will make separate threads covering the battles of Kharkov and the south of Ukraine that happened at the same time) following the decisive offensive in the first 24 hours of the war.

24.2.2022 Thread (1) This will be the first thread in my SVO Thread Series, aiming to document the various tales of heroism that occurred during this war that now spans across 3 whole years and, despite diplomatic efforts, is nowhere near over at the present moment.

The Battles for Lugansk and Donetsk Airport
August 2014-January 2015 The situation in Lugansk since the start of the conflict had been far worse compared to Donetsk as Donetsk was regularly shelled by regular artillery and mortars Lugansk was the target of numerous airstrikes.

Izvarino Ilovaisk Thread in the summer of 2014 tensions rose on the Donetsk section of the Russo Ukrainian Border while in Lugansk entire Ukrainian Borde Guard detachments defected and the border was seised without a resistance things turned out different in Donetsk

First Battle of Donetsk Airport Thread: This battle, along with the battle of Lugansk airport, is often overlooked in favor of the Victorius Tale of the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport, but it is important to remind us how disorganized and incopetent the millitia was in the early days of the conflict,

Kherson Offensive Thread after the successful campaign in Lugansk Oblast the Tactical Situation remained grim for Russian forces as the damage done by the failure in the early phase of the war could not be repaired they faced an extreme manpower shortage and were outnumbered by the Ukrainians

Detailed Thread on the Battle of Slawyansk Kramatorsk i am preparing 2 Special TON Episode covering all of 2014
and 2015 to be posted in December so i will make dedicated threads to different battles in order to Summarize so first we will talk about the Period before Strelkov and his 50 Men Captured Slawyansk the assumption that the FSB Agent from Crimea started the War is ridiculous and there is evidence of combat a while before he arrived in Slawyansk