On April 13, 2014, the military actions of war in the east began, after capturing the Sloviansk Donetsk region by Russian sabotage detachments under the command of Igor Girkin.

[5] On June 26, the battalion fighters during the raid in the vicinity of Donetsk captured two persons with the weapons and documents of the DNR called sign Klotz (deputy Igor Girkin, the Russian field commander), and the Donetsk militiaman Sergey Tishchenko, which took direct part in the operations of militants.

Klotz had numerous keys to apartments and notarial acts recorded on his real estate in Donetsk and its region.

[6][7] On July 3, 2014, the terrorist attack on the checkpoint is reflected; six militants were killed, two cars were captured as well as a significant amount of weapons.

During the breakthrough, a "suicide bomber" was eliminated, whose purpose was to destroy checkpoints and peaceful inhabitants, later evacuated from the fire of Donetsk.

In early August, the leadership of the "B" sector in the person of General Ruslana Khomchak approved a plan for a military operation on defeating illegal armed formations in the city of Ilovaisk, who was an integral part of the ATO headquarters in the environment of Donetsk.

However, on August 24, the column of Russian armored vehicles in 100 units had crossed the state border in sector D, and hit the Ilovaisk group of volunteer battalions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense, the personal composition of which in most has been armed with light rifle weapons had only a small amount of BTR-80, 82-mm mortar BM-37, and ZU-23-2.