Makiivka (; ) is a village in
Svatove Raion
Svatove Raion () is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. the administrative center of the raion is the city of Svatove. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lu ...
,
Luhansk Oblast
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, eastern
Ukraine
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. It is located about northwest of the centre of the city of
Luhansk
Luhansk (, ; , ), also known as Lugansk (, ; , ), is a city in the Donbas in eastern Ukraine. As of 2022, the population was estimated to be making Luhansk the Cities in Ukraine, 12th-largest city in Ukraine.
Luhansk served as the administra ...
. It belongs to
Krasnorichenske settlement hromada
Krasnorichenske settlement hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Svatove Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Its administrative center is the town of Krasnorichenske.
It has an area of and a population of 7,977, as of 2020.
The hromada contains 10 ...
, one of the
hromada
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s of Ukraine.
History
The village
was captured by
Russian forces
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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 ...
, with
Ukrainian forces entering it in the beginning of October the same year.
The regional military administration reported on 13 November that the settlement was under Ukrainian control.
Russia claimed to have recaptured the village on 29 September 2024, which was confirmed in mid-October by a Ukrainian source.
Demographics
As of 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.[Makiivka surrender incident
The Makiivka surrender incident happened during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 in the village of Makiivka, Luhansk Oblast. Videos depicted what appeared to be at least ten Russian soldiers surrendering to four Ukrainian soldiers in Makii ...]
References
Villages in Svatove Raion
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