Poroz () is a village in Grayvoronsky Municipal District,

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, Russia, about northeast of the

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Geography

The village is located in the southwest of Belgorod Oblast, in the southwestern part of the

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, west of the 14K-14 motorway, at a distance of about kilometres (in a straight line) northwest of the town of

Grayvoron Grayvoron (, ) is a town and the administrative center of Grayvoronsky District in Belgorod Oblast, Russia. It is on the Vorskla river (a tributary of the Dnieper) and the Grayvoronka river. It was known as ''Grayvorony'' until 1838. History ...

, the administrative centre of the district. The absolute height is 173

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History

Russo-Ukrainian War

On the morning of 10 August 2024, a video began to circulate on the Internet showing that

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had likely entered and raided Poroz during the

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References

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, date=10 August 2024 , access-date=10 August 2024 , website=pravda.com.ua , language=en , author=KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO , quote= , archive-date=10 August 2024 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240810142954/https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/10/7469821/ , url-status=live {{cite web , url=https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-10-2024 , title=Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 10, 2024 , publisher= ISW , date=10 August 2024 , access-date=10 August 2024 , website=understandingwar.org , language=en , author=Christina Harward , author2=Angelica Evans , author3=Grace Mappes , author4=Kateryna Stepanenko , author5=Davit Gasparyan , author6=George Barros , quote=Russian milbloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces also conducted isolated raids into Poroz and Mokraya Orlovka (west of Belgorod City and along the international border), Belgorod Oblast on August 10, but that Ukrainian forces do not maintain positions in these settlements. , archive-date=11 August 2024 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811020652/https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-10-2024 , url-status=live {{cite web , url=https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-belgorod-incursion-kursk-1937349 , title=Ukraine Pushes Into New Part of Russia: Reports , publisher=

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, date=11 August 2024 , access-date=11 August 2024 , website=newsweek.com , language=en-us , author=Brendan Cole , quote= Populated places in Grayvoronsky District