Stanytsia Luhanska

Stanytsia Luhanska (Ukrainian: Станиця Луганська; Russian: Станица Луганская) is an urban-type settlement on the banks of the Seversky Donets River in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Population: 12,713 (2020 est.)[1] . Stanytsia Luhanska is one of two local foundations of the Don Cossacks in today's Ukraine and the administrative center of the Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion 20 km northeast of Luhansk.

Stanytsia Luhanska

Станиця Луганська
Urban-type settlement
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Stanytsia Luhanska
Location of Stanytsia Luhanska within Ukraine
Coordinates: 48°40′14″N 39°28′20″E
CountryUkraine
ProvinceLuhansk Oblast
Founded1688
Area
 • Total14.6 km2 (5.6 sq mi)
Elevation
40 m (130 ft)
Population
 (01.01.2020)
 • Total12,713
 • Density870/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
93600-93609
Area code+380 6472

Starting Mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in Donetsk Oblast;[2][3] including Stanytsia Luhanska.[4]

On 2 July 2014 unspecified planes attacked the village and the village of Kondrashovka.[5] The Ukrainian army denied the airstrike and blamed the damage on faulty shelling by the separatists.[6] There is also a version that the air strike was caused by a Russian aircraft in order to discredit the Ukrainian army by accusing it of bombing residential areas.[7]

On 21 August 2014, Ukrainian forces reportedly were clearing Stanytsia Luhanska from the pro-Russian separatists.[8] The settlement remained under control of the Ukrainian authorities.[9] It became situated on the frontline with forces representing the Luhansk People's Republic and became regularly the victim of shelling.[10] An early 2017 agreement between the Ukrainian army and the separatist forces of the war in Donbass on the disengagement of forces in Stanytsia Luhanska failed to materialise.[10][11]

Demographics

Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[12]

References
  1. "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  2. https://newrepublic.com/article/117387/putin-accidentally-helping-unite-eastern-and-western-ukraine
  3. http://en.itar-tass.com/world/735082
  4. http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/fighting_continues_near_donetsk_luhansk_325524
  5. http://www.unn.com.ua/ru/news/1360658-rayonna-vlada-stanitsi-luganskoyi-povidomila-pro-naslidki-ta-zhertvi-sogodnishnogo-obstrilu
  6. https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/07/2/7030788/
  7. http://ipress.ua/ru/ljlive/samoleti_kotorie_bombyly_stanytsu_luganskuyu_pryletely_so_storoni_rossyy__zhurnalyst_72901.html
  8. http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/fighting_continues_near_donetsk_luhansk_325524
  9. Hard lines: Access issues deepen Ukraine aid crisis, IRIN (4 March 2016)
  10. Read more on UNIAN:ATO HQ doubts disengagement in Stanytsia Luhanska soon (22-01-2017)
  11. Disengagement of forces in Donbas stalled, Interfax-Ukraine (17.11.2017)


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