Stanytsia Luhanska (; ) is a

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on the banks of the Siverskyi Donets River in the

Shchastia Raion Shchastia Raion (; ) is a Raions of Ukraine, raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of administrative divisions of Ukraine. The ''de jure'' administrative center of the raion is the city of ...

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in eastern

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. Residence of

Stanytsia Luhanska settlement hromada Stanytsia Luhanska settlement hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Shchastia Raion, Luhansk Oblast. Its administrative center is the town of Stanytsia Luhanska. It has an area of and a population of 23,237, as of 2020. The hromada co ...

. Population: . It is situated 20 km northeast 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 ...

. Prior to 2020, it was the administrative centre of the former

Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion (; ) was a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was the urban-type settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the admini ...

History

Stanytsia Luhanska is one of two local foundations of the

Don Cossacks Don Cossacks (, ) or Donians (, ), are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don River (Russia), Don. Historically, they lived within the former Don Cossack Host (, ), which was either an independent or an autonomous democratic rep ...

in today's Ukraine. During

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, in 1942–1943, the German occupiers operated a Nazi prison in the settlement.

Russo-Ukrainian war

Starting Mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in the Donbass region, including Stanytsia Luhanska. On 2 July 2014 unspecified planes attacked the village and the village of Kondrashovka. The

Ukrainian army The Ukrainian Ground Forces (SVZSU, ), also referred to as the Ukrainian army, is a land force, and one of the eight Military branch, branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was formed from Ukrainian units of the Soviet Army after Declaratio ...

denied the airstrike and blamed the damage on faulty shelling by the separatists. There is also a version that the air strike was caused by a Russian aircraft in order to discredit the Ukrainian army by accusing it of bombing residential areas. On 21 August 2014, Ukrainian forces reportedly were clearing Stanytsia Luhanska from the pro-Russian separatists. The settlement remained under control of the Ukrainian authorities. It became situated on the frontline with forces representing the

Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk People's Republic (LPR; , ) is a disputed territory administered as a republic of Russia in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, with its capital in Luhansk. The LPR was proclaimed by Russian-backed paramilitar ...

and became regularly the victim of shelling.Read more on

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br>ATO HQ doubts disengagement in Stanytsia Luhanska soon
(22-01-2017) An early 2017 agreement between the

and the

separatist forces of the war in Donbass Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, primarily the People's Militias of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), were pro-Russian paramilitaries in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. They were under the o ...

on the disengagement of forces in Stanytsia Luhanska failed to materialise. On 17 February 2022, the rebels shelled the town and a missile hit a school, injuring 3 people. They also left half of the town without electricity. On 26 February, the settlement was occupied by

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as part of 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 ...

. The village council and civilian-military administration head, Albert Zinchenko, was reported as to be collaborating with the occupiers.

Demographics

Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001: *

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

92.4% * Ukrainian 6.2% *

Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnic groups * Romani people, or Roma, an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin ** Romani language, an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities ** Romanichal, Romani subgroup in the United Kingdom * Romanians (Romanian ...

0.2% *

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...

0.2% *

Belarusian Belarusian may refer to: * Something of, or related to Belarus * Belarusians, people from Belarus, or of Belarusian descent * A citizen of Belarus, see Demographics of Belarus * Belarusian language * Belarusian culture * Belarusian cuisine * Byelor ...

0.1%

Notable people

Oleksandr Pielieshenko Oleksandr Yuriyovych Pielieshenko (, also transliterated Peleshenko; 7 January 1994 – 5 May 2024) was a Ukrainian weightlifter. He was the 2016 and 2017 European Champion. He also competed for Ukraine at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Pielieshenko ...

(1994-2024), Ukrainian weightlifter

References

Rural settlements in Shchastia Raion Don Host Oblast Stanytsia Luhanska settlement hromada {{Luhansk-geo-stub