Sakko i Vantsetti
Сакко і Ванцетті | |
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Coordinates: 48°44′46″N 38°01′54″E / 48.74611°N 38.03167°E | |
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Raion |
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Hromada | Soledar urban hromada |
Founded | 1923/1924 |
Elevation | 77 m (253 ft) |
Population (
2001 census) | |
• Total | 3 |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Postal code | 84530 |
Area code | +380 6274 |
Sakko i Vantsetti ( Ukrainian: Са́кко і Ванце́тті; Russian: Са́кко и Ванце́тти) transl. Sacco and Vanzetti is a village in Bakhmut Raion ( district) in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It is part of Soledar urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. [1]
Sakko i Vantsetti was originally created as a commune in the Soviet Union in 1923–1924. It was closely connected to nearby Vasiukivka. [2] It was named after the Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were controversially convicted in 1921 of murdering a paymaster and a security guard at a shoe factory in the United States, executed in 1927 and rehabilitated in 1977 by Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. [3] Soviet propaganda celebrated Sacco and Vanzetti as unjustly accused proletarians and revolutionaries. [4]
Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 1, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed his Wagner Group paramilitary fighters had captured Sakko i Vantsetti, posting a photograph purporting to show four of his soldiers posing in front of what they called "the only surviving house" in the village. [4] By the middle of May 2023, Russian forces were claimed to have retreated from the village following local Ukrainian counterattacks. [5]
The 1989 Census in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union recorded a total population of 19 in Sakko i Vantsetti, 12 men and 7 women. [6] The population declined by the time of the first independent Ukrainian Census of 2001, which recorded 3 inhabitants in the village. [7]
The milbloggers also claimed that Russian forces retreated from positions north of Sakko i Vantsetti (15km north of Bakhmut) to positions south of the settlement, but that Ukrainian forces have not yet entered the settlement.