The war in eastern Ukraine is known under multiple
names; most often formulations similar to Ukrainian civil war or Ukrainian
conflict are still used to describe the war.
The implied characteristic as
solely internal Ukrainian conflict is heavily disputed and an active Russian participation
is widely accepted. While there is now plentiful evidence documenting a direct
and decisive participation of Russian servicemen and the Russian armed forces
in the fighting in eastern Ukraine since summer 2014, it is however not
possible to support the various claims about the size of the Russian
involvement using public available information.
Given the nature of open source
evidence, it is near impossible to provide an exact number of Russian
servicemen participating in the fighting in eastern Ukraine only relying on
this type of information.
The open source research done by @Askai707 and
InformNapalm strongly suggest that – at minimum – hundreds of Russian
servicemen were involved in the fighting so far.
The most direct evidence could
be provided by the Russian bureaucracy. However, such an information is also
most likely a Russian state secret and not publicly available.
Other
information, similar to official statistics, would also allow an estimation of
the number of involved Russian servicemen. Such information is available in
previously published individual cases of Russian servicemen.
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