Shyrokyne (, ) or Shirokino () is a village in the

Mariupol Raion Mariupol Raion (; ) is a raion (district) of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the city of Mariupol. Population: The area of the raion h ...

Donetsk Oblast Donetsk Oblast, also referred to as Donechchyna (, ), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast in eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 million residents. Its capital city, administrative centre is Donetsk, though d ...

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. The village is situated on the shore of the

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, about east from the centre of

Mariupol Mariupol is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast (Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius, Kalmius River. Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was the tenth-largest city in the coun ...

War in Donbas

The village became a battleground in 2014–15 during a war between separatists affiliated with the

Donetsk People's Republic The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR; , ) is Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupied territory in Ukraine that the Russian Federation has claimed to annex and declared as a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia, comprising parts o ...

and the Ukrainian government. Prior to the war, the village was situated in

Novoazovsk Raion Novoazovsk Raion (; ) was one of the administrative raions (a ''district'') of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Donet ...

. This was changed on 9 December 2014, when the Ukrainian parliament voted to change the boundaries of the Raion, so as to allow Ukrainian-controlled territories to be separated from DPR-controlled territories. The village and its neighbours were thus placed into an expanded

Volnovakha Raion Volnovakha Raion () is one of the eight raions (administrative districts) of Donetsk Oblast, in southeastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is in the city of Volnovakha. The raion's population is History In September 1959, when Olhynka ...

. All civilians were evacuated from the village in February 2015, with up to 80% of the village's houses damaged beyond repair by July of that year. By the end of February 2016 Ukrainian troops took the village under their control as pro-Russian forces withdrew from the settlement. As of 2023, Shyrokyne is under occupation by Russian forces, who have illegally annexed Donetsk Oblast.

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.Ukrainophone A Ukrainophone (, ''ukrainskomovnyi'') is a person who speaks the Ukrainian language either natively or by preference. At the same time the term is used in a more specialized meaning to describe the category of people whose cultural background is ...

, when they were asked about their primary languages. The exact native language composition was as follows:

References

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