Zaytseve
Зайцеве | |
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Coordinates: 48°25′45″N 38°0′34″E / 48.42917°N 38.00944°E | |
Country | Ukraine |
Oblast | Donetsk Oblast |
Raion | Bakhmut Raion |
Area | |
• Total | 16.438 km2 (6.347 sq mi) |
Elevation | 129 m (423 ft) |
Population (2022) | |
• Total | 3,919 |
• Density | 240/km2 (620/sq mi) |
Postal code | 84692 |
Area code | +380 6242 |
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Zaitseve ( Ukrainian: Зайцеве; Russian: Зайцево, romanized: Zaytsevo) is an rural settlement in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. Population: 3,919 (2022 estimate). [1]
Pro-Russian forces took the settlement under their control in the beginning of the War in Donbass, in 2014. [2]
Ukrainian forces have the settlement under control since the second half of 2015. [3] [4]
The war has brought both civilian and military casualties. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] The settlement is located near the frontline between Ukrainian forces and the separatist Donetsk People's Republic in the war in Donbass. [10] It is one of the suburbs of Horlivka that stayed under Ukrainian army control, unlike Horlivka which is under separatist control since April 2014. [11] [12] 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. [13] [14] Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced a condemnation of the incident. [15]
Districts of Horlivka: | Populated places: 1 — Hladosove 2 — Holmivskyi 3 — Zaitseve 4 — Mykhailivka 5 — Ozeryanivka 6 — Panteleymonivka 7 — Piatykhatky 8— Ryasne 9 — Stavky 10 — Fedorivka 11 — Shyroka Balka |
Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001: [16]
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