| Abstrakt: |
The purpose of the article is to structure the accumulated factual material on the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The novelty of the material is an attempt to make a brief reconstruction of the event in this segment of the topic and the specified chronological boundaries and on this basis to develop options for historical periodization of the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Eastern Ukraine in 2014-2018 (ATO). The methodology of the study is based on a combination of general scientific, special and interdisciplinary methods of scientific knowledge. The specificity of the topic prompted the use of special methods of military-historical research: historicalsystemic, problem-chronological, historical-comparative, historical-genetic. The authors use modern terminology, tested by domestic and foreign military scientists and practitioners. The main results of the study. The processed array of sources and literature makes it possible to reproduce with a high degree of probability the actual course of major events in chronological order and highlight the key milestones of the Russian-Ukrainian armed confrontation at the beginning of the 21th century. According to the nature of hostilities, military-political results and consequences of the anti-terrorist operation is divided into initial and two main periods within which there are stages that differ qualitatively in purpose, nature and content of combat (special) actions. The authors prove that it was the aggression of Russian Federation that caused the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Ukraine has used the forces of the security and defence sector to repel and deter this aggression. The form of their application from April 14, 2014 to April 30, 2018 was an anti-terrorist operation, and after -- the Joint Forces Operation. This provided a basis for further research into the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine to provide a clear understanding of the nature and essence of Russia's hybrid war against Ukraine, to analyse its evolution, and, moreover, to summarize the experience of countering hybrid threats in the military sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
