Yahidne () is a rural settlement in eastern

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

, located in the center of

Bakhmut Raion Bakhmut Raion (), known as Artemivsk Raion () between 1924 and 2016, is a raion (district) within the northeastern part of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Bakhmut. Its area is , and its population is approximately ...

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 ...

. In 2001, it had a population of 318. It is located on one side of a hill, on the other side of which is the village of

Berkhivka Berkhivka () is a village in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is located about southwest of Paraskoviivka, and northwest of Bakhmut. The settlement's population has fallen from 118 registered in the 2001 census, to 43 in 2022. It has ...

History

Russo-Ukrainian War

Russian invasion of Ukraine

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 ...

, Yahidne saw fierce fighting as part of the

Battle of Bakhmut The battle of Bakhmut was a major battle between the Russian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian Armed Forces for control of the city of Bakhmut, during the eastern Ukraine campaign, a theatre of the Russian invasion of Uk ...

in February 2023. As of now, the settlement is currently under Russian occupation.

Politics

In the 2012 and 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, pluralities of voters in Yahidne voted for the pro-Russian parties

Party of Regions A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often feature ...

and

Opposition Bloc The Opposition Bloc (, ) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine that was founded in 2014 by the merger of six parties that did not endorse Euromaidan. Legally, the party was created by renaming the lesser-known party "Leading Force".

, respectively.

Demographics

According to the 1989 USSR census, the settlement had a population of 420 people, of whom 192 were men and 228 were women. By the time of the Ukrainian census of 2001, the population had shrunk to 318. Their native languages were:

References

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