Lukiantsi (; ) is a village in

Kharkiv Raion Kharkiv Raion () is a raion (district) of Kharkiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its capital (political), administrative center is the city of Kharkiv. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of rai ...

Kharkiv Oblast Kharkiv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna (), is an oblast (province) in eastern Ukraine. Kharkiv borders Luhansk Oblast to the east, Donetsk Oblast to the southeast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the southwest, Poltava Oblast to the w ...

, eastern

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. It is situated northeast of

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

city. It belongs to

Lyptsi rural hromada Lyptsi rural territorial hromada () is a hromada located in Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast (province), Ukraine. The administrative center is Lyptsi. The total area and population of the hromada are and 13446 respectively. The rural hromada was ...

, one of the

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s of Ukraine.

History

Lukiantsi was founded in 1862 as a settlement within the

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Russo-Ukrainian War

During the initial eastern campaign of the 2022

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 ...

, the village was occupied by

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on or shortly after the first day of the conflict. It was subsequently retaken by Ukrainian forces later that year during its

2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive On September 6, 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a major counteroffensive against the Russian military during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As Ukraine announced the start of the 2022 Kherson counteroffensive, Kherson counteroffensi ...

. Lukiantsi once again came under direct attack by

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on 13 May 2024, during the

2024 Kharkiv offensive On 10 May 2024, the Russian Armed Forces began an offensive operation in Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast, shelling and attempting to breach the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of Vovchansk and Kharkiv. ''The Guardian'' reported ...

. On 14 May, DeepState reported the village to be captured by the Russian forces. On 15 May, a speaker of the Ukrainian military stated that troops were withdrawn from the Lukiantsi and

Vovchansk Vovchansk (, ; ) is a destroyed city in Chuhuiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, northeastern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of . The Vovcha river, a tributary of the Donets river, runs through the city. Vovchansk had a population of However, th ...

areas to "preserve the lives of our servicemen and avoid losses" and move to "more advantageous positions", and that the situation "remains difficult".

Demographics

As of the

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were 53.95% Ukrainian, 42.51%

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, 2.09%

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...

, 0.89%

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and 0.08% Moldovan (

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References

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