Metalist ( uk, Металіст) is a village in
Luhansk Raion
Luhansk Raion ( uk, Луганський район, russian: Луганский район) is a prospective raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. It was formally created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Uk ...
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Luhansk Oblast
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Ukraine
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. Population 2197 people (2001); the village was incorporated in 1932.
On June 17, 2014, a camera crew of
Russian state television came under mortar fire at a checkpoint in the vicinity of Metalist. While
sound engineer Anton Voloshin (1987-2014) died on the spot, special correspondent Igor Kornelyuk (1977-2014) was severely wounded dying later in hospital. Cameraman Viktor Denisov survived the attack unharmed.
On June 18, 2014, the Ukrainian female army aviator
Nadiya Savchenko was captured near the village of Metalist by rebels of the
Donbass People's Militia
The Donetsk People's Militia and Luhansk People's Militia (formerly also called Russian separatist forces in Donbas) are pro-Russian paramilitaries in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which have been fighting the Armed Forces of Ukraine in ...
, an armed pro-Russian militant group that declared allegiance to the self-declared
People's Republic of Luhansk. Savchenko was later handed over to Russia, charged and convicted for the killing of two Russian journalists during the
2014 insurgency in Donbass
Fourteen or 14 may refer to:
* 14 (number), the natural number following 13 and preceding 15
* one of the years 14 BC, AD 14, 1914, 2014
Music
* 14th (band), a British electronic music duo
* ''14'' (David Garrett album), 2013
*''14'', an unrel ...
(she was released in a prison swap in May 2016).
On July 2, 2014, heavy fighting was reported in and near here.
References
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Villages in Luhansk Raion