Zaitseve (; ) is a

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, eastern

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. Population:

History

Pro-Russian forces took the settlement under their control in the beginning of the

War in Donbass The war in Donbas, or the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. The war began in April 2014, when Russian paramilitaries seized several towns. Ukraine's military launched an operation ...

, in 2014. Ukrainian forces have the settlement under control since the second half of 2015. The war has brought both civilian and military casualties. The settlement is located near the frontline between Ukrainian forces and the separatist

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in the war in Donbass. It is one of the suburbs of

Horlivka Horlivka ( ; , ), also known as Gorlovka (, ), is a city in Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. Its population is Economic activity is predominantly coal mining and the chemical industry. The Horlivka Institute for Foreign Languages has a two-building ...

that stayed under

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control, unlike Horlivka which is under separatist control since April 2014. To facilitate the administration, the Ukrainian government transferred Zaitseve from the city of Horlivka to Bakhmut Raion, which is under the control of the central government. On February 21, 2022, pro-Russian rebels shelled the town, killing two soldiers. A civilian in the nearby village of Novoluhanske, 51 year old Roman Shyrokiy, also died, becoming the war's first civilian casualty in 2022.

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voiced a condemnation of the incident. Raions of Horlivka

Demographics

Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001: *Russian 93.15% * Ukrainian 6.48%

References

External links

SUMMARY INFORMATION FROM АТО – 06.12.2015 (VIDEO)

Media Coverage

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