About the book: 2015 / “... Behind us are several months of the largest European armed conflict since the Second World War. During the fighting, Donbass suffered enormous economic damage. More than five thousand houses, more than a hundred schools, dozens of hospitals and medical posts were destroyed. Trade infrastructure has been destroyed. According to the most conservative estimates, more than three thousand civilians have already died under the shells and bombs of the punitive forces. During this time, the punitive force group was deployed from fifteen thousand soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard and volunteer battalions in mid-May to an army of almost sixty thousand in mid-August.” A military observer for the newspaper “Zavtra” made the first attempt to describe the events in Donbass precisely from the military point of view analysts. Tactics and strategy, the forces of the parties, supplies... Shurygin tells in detail what a modern war looks like on the ruins of the former Union. For the first time, a detailed analysis of the forces of the parties, weapons and tactics used is being carried out.