Lutuhyne (, ) is a city in the

Luhansk Raion Luhansk Raion (; ) is a prospective raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. It was formally created in July 2020 as part of a reformation of Ukraine's administrative divisions. The center of the raion is in the city of Luhansk. Population: ...

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. Residence of

Lutuhyne urban hromada Lutuhyne urban hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Luhansk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Lutuhyne. The hromada contains 35 settlements: 1 city (Lutuhyne), 15 rural settlements: and 23 villages: See ...

. The 2022 population was

History

From mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in Luhansk Oblast, including Lutuhyne. On 27 July 2014, Ukrainian forces claimed their troops had entered the city, and would restore Ukrainian control, yet by autumn it was clear that Lutuhyne was under the control of the pro-Russian, self-declared

Lugansk People's Republic The Luhansk People's Republic (LPR; , ) is a disputed territory administered as a republic of Russia in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, with its capital in Luhansk. The LPR was proclaimed by Russian-backed paramilitar ...

, and would remain that way from autumn 2014 on. After the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the city became the scene of significant pro-Ukrainian

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. Following the highly disputed

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, Russia has claimed the settlement as their territory.

Demographics

Ethnic composition and native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:

Gallery

File:Лутугине2.JPG, Lutuhyne church File:Лутугине3.JPG, Monument to L. I. Lutugin, founder of the city File:Озброєні_лутугінці_з_міністром_АПК_Ігорем_Швайкою.jpg,

Ihor Shvaika Ihor Oleksandrovych Shvaika (born 25 February 1976) is a right-wing Ukrainian politician and a former Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Shvaika was elected to the 7th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada during the 2012 parliamentary elec ...

with pro-Ukrainian volunteers from Lutuhyne during the

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Notable people

(born 1976), Ukrainian politician (

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References

Cities in Luhansk Oblast Cities of district significance in Ukraine Lutuhyne Raion Populated places established in the Russian Empire Lutuhyne urban hromada {{Luhansk-geo-stub