Back الجيش الأرثوذكسي الروسي Arabic Exèrcit Ortodox Rus Catalan Russische Orthodoxe Armee German Ejército Ortodoxo Ruso Spanish Armée orthodoxe russe French Tentara Ortodoks Rusia ID Esercito Ortodosso Russo Italian 러시아 정교회군 Korean Руска православна армија Macedonian Rosyjska Armia Prawosławna Polish
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| Russian Orthodox Army (Русская православная армия) | |
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 Patch of the Russian Orthodox Army | |
| Leader | Pavel Gubarev |
| Dates of operation | 2014[1] |
| Headquarters | Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine |
| Active regions | Donbas, Ukraine |
| Ideology | [7] |
| Size | 4,000[4] |
| Part of |  Donbas People's Militia |
| Allies | |
| Opponents | |
| Battles and wars | Russo-Ukrainian War |
| Flag |  |
| Website | https://web.archive.org/web/20140714131831/http://rusarmy.su/ |
The Russian Orthodox Army, ROA (Russian: Русская православная армия, Russkaya pravoslavnaya armiya) was a Russian separatist paramilitary group in Ukraine that has been fighting Ukrainian forces in the Donbas war. It was founded in 2014.[2] The ROA was later absorbed into the Oplot Fifth Separate Infantry Brigade.[1]
- ^ a b Shcherbachenko, Volodymyr V.; Yanova, Hanna (2017). War without Rules: Gender-Based Violence in the Context of the Armed Conflict in Eastern Ukraine (PDF). NGO Eastern-Ukrainian Centre for Civic Initiatives. ISBN 978-966-929-583-5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-06-06. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ^ a b "У самопровозглашенной Донецкой республики появилась новая армия — Русская православная (In the self-proclaimed republic of Donetsk, a new army - Russian Orthodox)". InfoResist (in Russian). 10 May 2014. Archived from the original on 11 May 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^ Самопроголошеному міністру оборони "ДНР" І. Стрєлкову інкримінується створення терористичної організації та вчинення терактів в Україні [Strelkova, the self-proclaimed minister of defence of the DNR terrorist organization, charged with creating and committing acts of terrorism in Ukraine]. Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 21 May 2014. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ a b "Meet the Russian Orthodox Army, Ukrainian Separatists' Shock Troops". NBC News. 16 May 2014. Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
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