Deletion of Russian invasion of Ukraine (2014)

Comment: or '''merge''' as per . There really isn't much to explain that hasn't already been said
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Content forking (WP:POVFORK)

Comment: per . There's already an article about alleged Russian involvement in Ukraine, see: 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Content forking (WP:POVFORK)

Comment: See . This article is a mainly content-based split, not a fork. The readable prose of 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine is about 36 kb and War in Donbass about 118 kb. Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine_(2014) is about 5.3kb. So merging this article into 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine would in principle be doable without violating the  rule of thumb for length. But official international government reactions ("responses") and mainstream media reports, cited in the article, widely report this as a qualitatively different phase of the conflict - a significant escalation, and literally an "invasion". This seems to me to justify a content-based split. The readable prose content has grown by about 2kb in the 2 days since the article was AfD'd. If RS'd NPOV material continues growing at 1kb/day, then that would make about 36 + 5 + 14 = 55 kb in a fortnight, in which case a split by length would also start to become preferable. There probably should be a discussion about the title, e.g. ''Russian invasion of mainland Ukraine (2014)'' might be better as a descriptive title, but |that's a requested move, not a deletion procedure
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Splitting (WP:SPLIT||WP:RM)

Comment: as both notable  and |well-sourced, it would be premature to delete this article at this time.  Events are obviously unfolding rapidly, and the article will evolve in the coming days/weeks.  While it ''may'' be appropriate to merge the ''military intervention'' article and the ''invasion'' article at some future time, it seems premature to do that at this time as well, simply because the fairly light involvement of Russian troops in the unrest in easter Ukraine since about March 2014, and the movement of a column of tanks into Ukraine (this article:  "invasion") seem to be quite different phases of the military operation by Russia
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:RS)