Horodyshche, Bilovodsk settlement hromada, Starobilsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast

Horodyshche (Ukrainian: Городи́ще; Russian: Городище, romanized: Gorodishche) is a village in northeastern Ukraine, in Bilovodsk settlement hromada, Starobilsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. It has a population of 1777 people.

History

As a result of the Holodomor, a manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, there were a documented 132 deaths in the village.[1]

On 24 February 2022, the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the village was taken over and occupied by Russia.[2] On 4 August 2022, Ukrainian partisans shot at a car carrying Vitaly Kovalenko - the Russian-installed head of the re-established Bilovodsk Raion - and his deputy Valentyna Hladkova, wounding both.[3][4] The two had been on their way from Horodyshche, where Kovalenko lives.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Мартиролог. Луганська, ст. 33-35" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  2. ^ "У Луганській області російські війська захопили 2 населених пункти". РБК-Украина (in Russian). Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  3. ^ a b Petrenko, Roman. "На Луганщині обстріляли авто з топ-колаборантами" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  4. ^ Motyl, Alexander (2022-08-14). "Ukraine Is Waging Guerilla Warfare Hell on Putin". Retrieved 2023-11-09.


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