Significant1982

Mengistu's Red Star Campaign

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Nakfa · Sahel · Nacfa Front

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Soviet-backed multi-divisional Derg offensive against the EPLF's Nakfa redoubt, defeated after six months.

Belligerents3

Ethiopia (Derg)
EPLF
Soviet Union

ON THE MAPSoviet Union (Cold War)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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