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 ...
,
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 ...
, eastern
Ukraine
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. It is situated south of the village of Makarivka and on the opposite side of the
Mokri Yaly
The Mokri Yaly (; ) is a river in western Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. From its headwaters in Volnovakha, it flows roughly west and northwest to its confluence with the Vovcha river, which forms part of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast boundary.
Etymolo ...
The village was founded in the early 18th century as a Cossack settlement of the
Zaporozhian Sich
The Zaporozhian Sich (, , ; also ) was a semi-autonomous polity and proto-state of Zaporozhian Cossacks that existed between the 16th to 18th centuries, for the latter part of that period as an autonomous stratocratic state within the Cossa ...
.
Russo-Ukrainian War
Russian invasion of Ukraine
During the
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 was occupied by Russian forces for over a year. On 27 July 2023, the village was liberated by the 35th Marine Brigade and 7th Battalion Arei of the
Ukrainian Volunteer Army
The Ukrainian Volunteer Army () is a volunteer military formation established in December 2015 by Dmytro Yarosh after his departure from Right Sector. On October 14, 2018, Yarosh announced that all combat units were leaving the front line and the ...
2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
In early June 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine launched a Counter-offensive, counteroffensive against Russian forces Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupying its territory with a goal of breaching the front lines ...
.
According to
Reuters
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The agency ...
, the village was under Ukrainian control as of 31 July 2023. By the end of the fighting, the village was largely "ruined".
On 10 June 2024, the Russian Armed Forces recaptured the village.
Demographics
According to 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.Ukrainian, 37.14% spoke
Russian
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*''The Russians'', a b ...
and 0.24% spoke
Belarusian
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* Something of, or related to Belarus
* Belarusians, people from Belarus, or of Belarusian descent
* A citizen of Belarus, see Demographics of Belarus
* Belarusian language
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* Belarusian cuisine
* Byelor ...