Rohove (; ) is a village in

Starobilsk Raion Starobilsk Raion () is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district is the town of Starobilsk. Population: Its territory was greatly expanded during the 2020 Ukrainian administrative reforms ...

Luhansk Oblast Luhansk Oblast (; ), also referred to as Luhanshchyna (), is the easternmost Administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Luhansk. The oblast was established in 1938 and bore the n ...

of eastern

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, located north by west ( NbW) of the centre 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 ...

city. It forms part of the

Novopskov settlement hromada Novopskov settlement hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Starobilsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Its administrative center is the town of Novopskov. It has an area of and a population of 23,142, as of 2020. The hromada contains 21 settlem ...

, one of the ''

hromadas In Ukraine, a hromada () is the main type of municipality and the third level local self-government in Ukraine. The current hromadas were established by the Government of Ukraine on 12 June 2020. A municipality is designated ''urban hromada' ...

'' of Ukraine. It has been under Russian occupation since the start of the

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in 2022. The nearby (Rogovo) firing range has been used by occupational authorities and been hit by Ukrainian missile strikes.

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.native languages A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period. In some countries, the term ''native language'' or ''mother tongue'' refers ...

were 95.33% Ukrainian, 4.39%

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and 0.14%

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References

Villages in Starobilsk Raion {{Luhansk-geo-stub