Kyselivka (, ) is a village (selo) of

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, in Chornobaivka rural hromada,

Kherson Raion Kherson Raion (; ) is a raion (district) of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. History Kherson Raion was created on 18 July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the city of Kherson. The city of Ole ...

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History

The village was affected by the

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, in which an estimated 24 inhabitants of the village died. Due to resistance to

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, criminal cases were opened against many villagers.

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Following the

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, the village came under Russian occupation. According to the

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, on the night of 29 April, 2022, a firefight took place between ethnic Chechen and Buryat soldiers in the

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. There were allegedly more than 50 participants on each side. The reason for the conflict was purportedly reluctance from the Buryats to conduct offensive hostilities, as well as resentment of perceived "inequality" in conditions with the Chechens. The Chechens were involved in the safe job of keeping the back line, and also allegedly taking a disproportionate share of the loot. On 10 November 2022, it was reported that Ukrainian forces had retaken the village during the

2022 Kherson counteroffensive A military counteroffensive was launched by Ukraine on 29 August 2022 to expel Russian forces occupying the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts. Military analysts consider the counteroffensive to be the third strategic phase of th ...

Demographics

In the

1989 Soviet census The 1989 Soviet census (), conducted between 12 and 19 January of that year, was the final census carried out in the Soviet Union. The census found the total population to be 286,730,819 inhabitants. In 1989, the Soviet Union ranked as the third ...

, the village was found to have 2,533 inhabitants, of whom 1,199 were men and 1,334 women. According to the

2001 Ukrainian census The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.Villages in Kherson Raion Chornobaivka rural hromada