Darivka (), is a village located on the

Inhulets River The Inhulets () or Ingulets () is a river, a right tributary of the Dnieper, that flows through Ukraine. It has a length of and a drainage basin of . The Inhulets has its source in the Dnieper Upland in a ravine (balka) to the west of Topylo ...

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 ...

Kherson Oblast Kherson Oblast (, ; ), also known as Khersonshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in southern Ukraine. It is located just north of Crimea. Its administrative center is Kherson, on the northern or right bank ...

, southern

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

. It has a population of approximately 2,855 people.

Administrative status

Until July 2020, Darivka was in the

Bilozerka Raion Bilozerka Raion () was one of the 18 former administrative raions ( ''districts'') of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine. Its administrative center was located in the urban-type settlement of Bilozerka. The raion was disestablished on 18 July 202 ...

of Kherson Oblast. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as a result of the administrative reform of Ukraine's districts, which reduced the number of raions in Kherson Oblast to five, merging Bilozerka Raion into Kherson Raion.

Russian invasion of Ukraine

During the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

, units of the Kherson territorial defense were deployed to Darivka in the early morning hours of 25 February to defend its bridge over the Inhulets from Russian paratroopers. They withdrew shortly after being deployed due to the risk of being outflanked, as Russian forces had retaken control of the

Antonivka Road Bridge The Antonivka Road Bridge (), usually referred to as the Antonivskyi Bridge ( ), is a ruined box girder bridge on the Dnieper river in Kherson, Kherson Oblast, southern Ukraine. It became a flashpoint during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and ...

. On 23 July, the Ukrainian military bombarded Darivka's bridge over the

, causing significant damage and disrupting the Russian military's supply lines. The Russian military detonated the bridge in Darivka on 9 November 2022 amid its withdrawal from the right bank of the Dnieper. Along with the city of

Kherson Kherson (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and , , ) is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, Kherson is the home to a major ship-bui ...

, Darivka was liberated from the occupying troops on 11 November 2022 during Ukraine's Kherson counteroffensive.

References

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