Male Vesele (; ); until 2016 Radhospne (Радгоспне)) is a
rural settlement
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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 ...
(
district
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) in
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 ...
of eastern
Ukraine
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, at about
north-east
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from the centre of
Kharkiv
Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine. city.
The settlement came under attack 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 ...
in 2022.
References
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Villages in Kharkiv Raion