Shyroke (; ) is a

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Bashtanka Raion Bashtanka Raion () is a raion (district) in Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Bashtanka. Population: On 19 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Mykolaiv Oblast was ...

(

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) in

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of southern

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, at about

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from the centre of

Mykolaiv Mykolaiv ( ), also known as Nikolaev ( ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city and a hromada (municipality) in southern Ukraine. Mykolaiv is the Administrative centre, administrative center of Mykolaiv Raion (Raions of Ukraine, district) and Myk ...

city. It hosts the administration of Shyroke rural hromada, one of the

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s of Ukraine. Until 18 July 2020, Shyroke belonged to

Snihurivka Raion Snihurivka Raion () was a subdivision of Mykolaiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the town of Snihurivka. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions ...

. The raion was abolished that day as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Mykolaiv Oblast to four. The area of Snihurivka Raion was merged into Bashtanka Raion. Russian forces entered Mykolaiv Oblast during the

2022 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 ...

. On 27 April 2022, Ukrainian government official

Anton Gerashchenko Anton Yuriyovych Gerashchenko (, born 10 February 1979) is a current official advisor and a former deputy minister at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs. He is a former member of the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) from 2014 to 201 ...

announced that Ukrainian forces had taken control of Shyroke and the nearby villages of Novopetrivka and .

References

{{Reflist, refs= {{Cite web , url=http://db.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/Database/Census/databasetree_uk.asp , title=Distribution of the population by native language on ukrcensus.gov.ua , access-date=26 September 2022 , archive-date=31 July 2014 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140731182036/http://database.ukrcensus.gov.ua/Mult/Database/Census/databasetree_uk.asp , url-status=live {{cite web , last1=Clark , first1=Mason , last3=Barros , first3=George , last2=Stepanenko , first2=Kateryna , date=27 April 2022 , title=Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 27 , url=https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-27 , publisher=Institute for the Study of War , access-date=28 April 2022, quote=Local fighting continued in the Mykolayiv direction, with Russian forces conducting failed attacks towards Tavriyske and Nova Zorya and Ukrainian forces reportedly recapturing Shyroke, Novopetrivka, and Lyubino, 50 km north of Kherson. Rural settlements in Bashtanka Raion