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List of conflicts in territory of the former Soviet Union
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This article provides a list of conflicts that have occurred in the territory of the former Soviet Union. In December 1991, the dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in the emergence of 15 independent countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
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Central Asia
| Conflict | Belligerents | Start | End | Detail | Fatalities | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tajikistani Civil War | 5 May 1992 | 27 June 1997 | Began when ethnic groups from the Gharm and Gorno-Badakhshan regions of Tajikistan, which were underrepresented in the ruling elite, rose up against the national government of President Rahmon Nabiyev, in which people from the Leninabad and Kulob regions dominated. The war ended with the signing of the General Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and National Accord in Tajikistan and the Moscow Protocol. | |||||
| Batken conflict | Kyrgyzstan | |||||||
| Russia (material support) | ||||||||
| Uzbekistan (military support) | [[File:AQMI Flag asymmetric.svg | 23px]] Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan | 30 July 1999 | 27 September 1999 | Armed clashes between militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and the Armed Forces of Kyrgyzstan | |||
| Andijan massacre | Uzbekistan Government of Uzbekistan | 13 May 2005 | Protest and government massacre in the city of Andijan in Uzbekistan | 187–1,500 killed | ||||
| 2010 Kyrgyz Revolution | Kyrgyzstan Government of Kyrgyzstan | SDPK.svg SDPK | ||||||
| Respublika Party of Kyrgyzstan.png Respublika | ||||||||
| Ata Meken logo.png A.M.S.P | ||||||||
| Ar-Namys logo.png Ar-Namys | ||||||||
| Ata-Jurt Kyrgyzstan party logo.png Ata-Zhurt | ||||||||
| Flag of the United Kyrgyzstan.svg United Kyrgyzstan | 6 April 2010 | 15 April 2010 | Also known as the People's April Revolution, the Melon Revolution or the April Events. Began with the ousting of Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev in the capital Bishkek. The violence ultimately led to the consolidation of a new parliamentary system in Kyrgyzstan. | |||||
| 2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes | Kyrgyz provisional government | |||||||
| Kyrgyzstani Kyrgyz gangs | 19 May 2010 | June 2010 | Clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan, primarily in the cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad, in the aftermath of the ouster of former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev on April 7. | |||||
| Insurgency in Gorno-Badakhshan (2010–2015) | Tajikistan Tajikistan | Flag of Jihad.svg United Tajik Opposition | 19 September 2010 | 1 September 2015 | Sporadic fighting in Tajikistan between rebel and government forces. | |||
| Zhanaozen massacre | Government of Kazakhstan | Oil workers | 16 December 2011 | 17 December 2011 | Labor protest and government massacre in the city of Zhanaozen in Kazakhstan | |||
| 2020 Dungan–Kazakh ethnic clashes | Ethnic Dungans | Ethnic Kazakhs | 5 February 2020 | 8 February 2020 | Clashes between ethnic Kazakhs and ethnic Dungans (a Muslim group with Chinese origins) in the village of Masanchi within the Korday District of Kazakhstan. | |||
| 2020 Kyrgyz Revolution | Kyrgyzstan Government of Kyrgyzstan | * Protesters | 5 October 2020 | 15 October 2020 | Revolution caused by alleged electoral fraud in the October 2020 Kyrgyz parliamentary election, overnment corruption, government response to the COVID-19 pandemic and arrest and conviction of former president Almazbek Atambayev on corruption charges. | |||
| 2021 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes | Kyrgyzstan | Tajikistan | 28 April 2021 | 1 May 2021 | Clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan over water dispute. | |||
| 2022 Kazakh unrest | Kazakhstan Government of Kazakhstan | |||||||
| CSTO | Kazakhstan Kazakh opposition | |||||||
| Protesters | 2 January 2022 | 11 January 2022 | Protests across Kazakhstan that were sparked by an abrupt increase of gas prices, but have escalated into general protests. Kazakhstan's government has requested CSTO assistance in quelling the protests. | |||||
| 2022 Karakalpak protests | {{plainlist | Karakalpakstan Protesters | 1 July 2022 | 3 July 2022 | Over proposed amendments by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the Constitution of Uzbekistan which would have ended Karakalpakstan's status as an autonomous region of Uzbekistan and right to secede from Uzbekistan via referendum. A day after protests had begun in the Karakalpak capital of Nukus, President Mirziyoyev withdrew the constitutional amendments. The Karakalpak government said that protesters had attempted to storm government buildings. | |||
| 2022 Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan clashes | Kyrgyzstan | Tajikistan | ||||||
| [[File:Flag of Jihad.svg | 24px | border]] Afghan mujahids (per Kyrgyzstan) | 27 January 2022 | 20 September 2022 | Clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan |
Caucasus
North Caucasus
| Conflict | Belligerents | Start | End | Detail | Fatalities | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Prigorodny conflict | North Ossetia–Alania North Ossetia | |||||||
| Russia Russian Federation | Ingushetia Ingush rebels | 30 October 1992 | 6 November 1992 | Inter-ethnic conflict in the Eastern part of the Prigorodny district. | ||||
| First Chechen War | Russia | Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | 11 December 1994 | 31 August 1996 | Russian troops invaded after Chechnya declared independence, but withdrew in 1996 leading to a de facto Chechen independence. | |||
| War in Dagestan (1999) | Russia | Flag of Jihad.svg Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan | 7 August 1999 | 14 September 1999 | The Islamic International Brigade invaded the neighbouring Russian republic of Dagestan in support of the Shura of Dagestan separatist movement. | |||
| Second Chechen War | Russia | Flag of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.svg Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1999–2007) | 7 August 1999 | 16 April 2009 | Russia restores federal control of Chechnya. | |||
| Insurgency in Ingushetia | Russia Russia | Flag of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.svg Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (until October 2007) | 21 July 2007 | 19 May 2015 | Separatist insurgency in Ingushetia. | |||
| Insurgency in the North Caucasus | Russia | Flag of Caucasian Emirate.svg Caucasus Emirate | ||||||
| (2009–17) | 16 April 2009 | 19 December 2017 | Separatist insurgency in Chechnya, Dagestan, and other parts of the North Caucasus region. | |||||
| Low-level Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus | {{Collapsible list | bullets =yes | Russia}} | Chechnya | Dagestan |
South Caucasus
| Conflict | Belligerents | Start | End | Detail | Fatalities | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Nagorno-Karabakh War | {{plainlist | style=margin-bottom:0.5em | {{plainlist | style=margin-bottom:0.5em | 20 February 1988 | 12 May 1994 | The secessionist conflict leads to de facto independence of Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic). | ||||||||
| South Ossetia war (1991–1992) | Georgia Georgia | (1992) | 5 January 1991 | 24 June 1992 | The separatist conflict leads to South Ossetia's de facto independence from Georgia. | ||||||||||
| Georgian Civil War | {{collapsible list | Georgia | 1990}} Pro-Gamsakhurdia forces | 22 December 1991 – 6 January 1992 | |||||||||||
| {{collapsible list | Georgia | 1990}} Pro-Shevardnadze forces | |||||||||||||
| War in Abkhazia (1992–1993) | Georgia | Abkhazia Abkhazia | |||||||||||||
| Flag of the Confederation of Caucasian Mountain People.svg Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus | |||||||||||||||
| 14 August 1992 | 30 September 1993 | Abkhaz separatism leads to the de facto independence of Abkhazia from Georgia. | |||||||||||||
| Ganja Uprising | Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijani Government | ||||||||||||||
| Emblem of Azerbaijani Popular Front Party.svg APFP | 4 June 1993 | 15 June 1993 | A mutiny against Azerbaijani President Abulfaz Elchibey replaces him with Heydar Aliyev | ||||||||||||
| 1995 Azerbaijani coup attempt | Flag of Azerbaijan (1991–2013).svg Special Purpose Police Unit | ||||||||||||||
| Turkish putschists | |||||||||||||||
| Supported by: | |||||||||||||||
| Flag of the Nationalist Movement Party.svg Nationalist Movement Party | Flag of Azerbaijan (1991–2013).svg Government of Azerbaijan | 13 March 1995 | 17 March 1995 | A failed attempt to reinstall former president Abulfaz Elchibey | |||||||||||
| War in Abkhazia (1998) | Georgian insurgents | Abkhazia | 18 May 1998 | 26 May 1998 | Ethnic Georgians in Abkhazia launched an insurgency against the Abkhazian secessionist government. | ||||||||||
| 1998 Georgian attempted mutiny | Georgian Government | Mutineers from the Senaki Military Brigade | |||||||||||||
| Zviadists | 18 October 1998 | 19 October 1998 | An abortive mutiny led by pro-Gamsakhurdia officers from the Senaki Military Brigade to remove new President Eduard Shevardnadze from power. | ||||||||||||
| 2001 Kodori crisis | Chechnya Chechen division under Gelayev | ||||||||||||||
| Georgia (country) Georgian guerrillas | Abkhazia | 4 October 2001 | 18 October 2001 | Georgian guerrillas unsuccessfully try to regain control over Abkhazia with the help of Chechen fighters. | |||||||||||
| Pankisi Gorge crisis | Georgia Georgia | ||||||||||||||
| Supported by: | |||||||||||||||
| United StatesRussia | Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Chechen militants | ||||||||||||||
| [[File:Flag of Jihad.svg | 25px]] Mujahideen in Chechnya | ||||||||||||||
| [[File:Flag of Jihad.svg | 25px]] Other jihadists | November 2000 | October 2002 | An incursion by Al-Qaeda forces into Georgia on behalf of Chechen rebels fighting in the North Caucasus. They were forced out in 2004 by Georgian forces with American and Russian backing. | |||||||||||
| 2004 South Ossetian clashes | Georgia Georgia | South Ossetia South Ossetia | |||||||||||||
| Russia Russia | 7 July 2004 | 5 November 2004 | Clashes between Georgian and South Ossetian troops result in several deaths. | ||||||||||||
| 2006 Kodori crisis | Georgia Georgia | Georgia Monadire | 22 July 2006 | 28 July 2006 | Georgian police and special forces drive a local rebellious militia out of the Georgian-controlled Kodori Valley in Abkhazia. | ||||||||||
| Russo-Georgian War | Georgia | 1 August 2008 | 16 August 2008 | url=http://kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2008/08/26/1543_type82912_205752.shtml | title=Statement by President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev | publisher=Russia's President web site | date=2008-08-26 | access-date=2008-08-26 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902001442/http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2008/08/26/1543_type82912_205752.shtml | archive-date=2 September 2008 | url-status=dead}} | ||||
| 2009 Georgian mutiny | Georgian Army | ||||||||||||||
| Georgian Police | Mutineers from the Mukhrovani Separate Tank Battalion | 5 May 2009 | 5 May 2009 | An alleged abortive mutiny by a Georgian Army tank battalion based in Mukhrovani village with a goal of removing President Saakashvili from power. | |||||||||||
| 2010 Mardakert clashes | Azerbaijan | Nagorno-Karabakh | |||||||||||||
| Armenia | 18 June 2010 | 1 September 2010 | Sporadic border war on the Armenian–Azerbaijan border and at the line of contact between the Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. | ||||||||||||
| 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict | Azerbaijan | Artsakh | |||||||||||||
| Armenia | 1 April 2016 | 5 April 2016 | Armenian and Azerbaijani forces fight a four-day long conflict along the border of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh. Azerbaijani forces make minor territorial gains, some of which are retaken by Armenian forces before the end of the conflict. | ||||||||||||
| July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes | Azerbaijan | Armenia | 12 July 2020 | 16 July 2020 | Armenian and Azerbaijani forces engage in border clashes along the Tavush Province of Armenia and Tovuz District of Azerbaijan. The death of Azerbaijani major general Polad Hashimov sparks the July 2020 Azerbaijani protests. Turkey and Azerbaijan organize large-scale military exercises following the clashes, and tensions persist until the beginning of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War 2 months later. | ||||||||||
| Second Nagorno-Karabakh War | Azerbaijan | ||||||||||||||
| Turkey (alleged by Armenia) | |||||||||||||||
| Syrian opposition Syrian mercenaries | Artsakh | ||||||||||||||
| Armenia | 27 September 2020 | 10 November 2020 | Azerbaijan retakes most of the territories previously controlled by the Republic of Artsakh. Russian peacekeepers introduced into the remaining disputed area. | ||||||||||||
| Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis | Azerbaijan | Armenia | 12 May 2021 | present | Border clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia. | ||||||||||
| Blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh | Azerbaijan | Russia Russian peacekeepers | 12 December 2022 | 30 September 2023 | Azerbaijan blockades the Republic of Artsakh. | ||||||||||
| 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh | Azerbaijan | Artsakh | 19 September 2023 | 20 September 2023 | Azerbaijan launches an attack on the Republic of Artsakh after nine months of blockade. The Artsakh Defence Army disbands, the government of the Republic of Artsakh agrees to dissolve itself entirely by January 1, 2024, and almost the entire population of Artsakh flees to Armenia. |
Eastern Europe
| Conflict | Belligerents | Start | End | Detail | Fatalities | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gagauzia conflict | Flag of the Gagauz people.svg Gagauz Republic | Moldavian SSR/Flag of Moldavian SSR (1990) (Soviet colors).png Moldavian SSR (until 1991) | |||||||||
| Moldova (from 1991) | 12 November 1989 | 14 January 1995 | Ended in the reintegration of Gagauzia into Moldova as an autonomous region. | ||||||||
| Transnistria War | {{plainlist | Flag of Moldavian SSR (1990) (Soviet colors).png/MoldovaSupported by: | 2 November 1990 | 21 July 1992 | Separatism in Transnistria leads to its de-facto secession from Moldova with Russian backing. | ||||||
| 1993 Russian constitutional crisis | Russia Presidential forces: | Poland}} | Czech Republic}} | Romania}} | Slovakia}} | ||||||
| Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity | [[File:Lesser Coat of Arms of Ukraine.svg | 15px]] Government of Ukraine | Flag of Ukraine.svg Anti-government protesters | 21 November 2013 | 22 February 2014 | Euromaidan is the name given to civil unrest that started when the Ukrainian government cancelled an association agreement with the EU in favour of closer ties with Russia. The protests escalated and led to the Revolution of Dignity, which toppled the Ukrainian government. | |||||
| Russian invasion of Crimea | 27 February 2014 | 26 March 2014 | In February 2014, Russia invaded Crimea. In March, following the takeover of Crimea by pro-Russian separatists and Russian Armed Forces, a referendum (not recognised by the new Ukrainian authorities) was held on the issue of reunification with Russia. This took place in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity. Russia then annexed Crimea on 18 March. | ||||||||
| 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine | Donetsk People's RepublicLuhansk People's RepublicFlag of the Kharkov People's Republic.svg Pro-Russian separatists | ||||||||||
| Russia | Ukraine | 23 February 2014 | 2 May 2014 | As a result of the revolution in Kyiv, a pro-Russian unrest in the eastern regions of the country escalated into mass protests and violence between those supporting and opposing the new authorities. In Crimea, the events served as a pretext for a Russian annexation of the region. In Donbas, the situation quickly escalated into a war. Protests in other regions included seizure of government buildings in Kharkiv and deadly clashes in Odesa. | |||||||
| War in Donbas | 12 April 2014 | 24 February 2022 | As a result of the unrest, a full-fledged war began in the Ukrainian Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, known collectively as Donbas. The separatist republics were proclaimed and captured a strip of land on the border with Russia. Major combat ended with the signing of the second Minsk agreements in early 2015, with a stalemate lasting until the start of the full-scale invasion by Russia of February 2022. | ||||||||
| Russian invasion of Ukraine | {{#invoke:flag | Ukraine}} | 24 February 2022 | present | |||||||
| 2023 Belgorod Oblast incursions | Russia | White-blue-white flag.svg Russian opposition | |||||||||
| Belarus Belarusian militant groups | |||||||||||
| Poland Polish militant groups | |||||||||||
| Flag of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.svg Chechen militant groupsUkraine (alleged by Russia, denied by Ukraine){{efn | See {{section link | Ukrainian involvement}} for more details.}} | 22 May 2023 | 17 December 2023 | |||||||
| Wagner Group rebellion | Russia Russia | [[File:Wagner armed rebellion vehicle marking Z.svg | 15px | link=]] PMC Wagner | 23 June 2023 | 24 June 2023 | Mutiny of Wagner PMC against the Russian government | ||||
| March 2024 western Russia incursion | Russia | Ukraine | |||||||||
| White-blue-white flag.svg Russian Opposition | 12 March 2024 | 7 April 2024 | Pro-Ukrainian Groups And Russian Opposition Groups Invading Western Russia In The Belgorod And Kursk Oblasts | ||||||||
| Kursk offensive (2024–2025) | Russia | ||||||||||
| North Korea | Ukraine | 6 August 2024 | 16 March 2025 | Ukrainian occupation of Kursk Oblast |
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