Battles of Sievierodonetsk (2014)

The battles of Sievierodonetsk were a series of battles between Ukrainian troops and Luhansk People's Republic formations during the war in Donbas in and around the Eastern Ukrainian cluster of cities of Rubizhne, Lysychansk, and Sieverodonetsk for control.

Timeline
At the end of May 2014, there was heavy fighting between LPR separatists and units of the National Guard of Ukraine. The media reported on the use by the Ukrainian army of mortars, howitzers, Tulpan self-propelled mortars and Grad multiple launch rocket systems.

On 22 July 2014 the LPR separatists retreated from Sievierodonetsk. Units of the National Guard of Ukraine entered the city.

On 23 July 2014, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine continued to engage in street fighting with the separatists. According to the fighters of the National Guard, they found one howitzer, more than 50 kilograms of plastids, 15 high-explosive shells and other ammunition in the city. The fighting continued until 24 July, when in the city of Lysychansk, a Colonel of the NSU Alexander Vitalyevich Radievsky, who was posthumously awarded the rank of Major General, was killed by separatists.