UKRAINE WAR VOLUME 1: Armed formations of the Donetsk People's Republic, 2014 - 2022

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Focuses on the armed formations of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the largest of the two separatist entities in the east of Ukraine. Offers an overview of DPR formations in 2014, their status up to the end of February 2022, and combat equipment, while also exploring issues around identity and symbology. Includes 119 color photos, 21 color profiles, four maps, one diagram, and two tables.

Explores the unusual and little-known home grown military technological developments made by the Donetsk People's Republic, including multiple launch rocket systems, armored vehicles, sniper rifles, small arms and remote weapons stations. Also covers the visual propaganda culture around the armed formations of the Donetsk People's Republic, with military glory and fallen personnel commemorated in large scale military parades, murals, monuments and even postage stamps.

Loosely confederated with the armed formations of the neighboring Luhansk People's Republic into the so-called United Armed Forces of Novorossiya, in reality the armed formations of the Donetsk People's Republic have retained a degree of autonomy over their units and planning. Often dismissed in existing literature as mere proxy extensions of Russian forces, since their formation in the fighting in eastern Ukraine during 2014 the armed formations of the Donetsk People's Republic have developed into an integrated fighting force with more main battle tanks than several major Western military powers combined. The title also details some of the key military commanders who have shaped the armed formations of the Donetsk People's Republic since 2014.