Stanytsia Luhanska
Stanytsia Luhanska
Станиця Луганська | |
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Urban-type settlement | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Stanytsia Luhanska Location of Stanytsia Luhanska within Ukraine | |
| Coordinates: 48°40′14″N 39°28′20″E / 48.67056°N 39.47222°ECoordinates: 48°40′14″N 39°28′20″E / 48.67056°N 39.47222°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Province | Luhansk Oblast |
| Founded | 1688 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 14.6 km2 (5.6 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 40 m (130 ft) |
| Population (2021) | |
| • Total | 12,505 |
| • Density | 860/km2 (2,200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 93600-93609 |
| Area code | +380 6472 |
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: 12,505 (2021 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.
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]
- Russian 92.4%
- Ukrainian 6.2%
- Romani 0.2%
- Armenian 0.2%
- Belarusian 0.1%
References[]
- ^ "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ Ragozin, Leonid (16 April 2014). "Vladimir Putin is Accidentally Bringing Eastern and Western Ukraine Together". The New Republic.
- ^ "Donbass defenders put WWII tank back into service".
- ^ http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/fighting_continues_near_donetsk_luhansk_325524
- ^ "Районная власть Станицы-Луганской сообщила о последствиях и жертвах сегодняшнего обстрела".
- ^ "Військові заявляють, що літаки АТО над Станицею Луганського взагалі не літали".
- ^ "Самолеты, которые бомбили Станицу Луганскую, прилетели со стороны России, - журналист".
- ^ http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/fighting_continues_near_donetsk_luhansk_325524
- ^ Hard lines: Access issues deepen Ukraine aid crisis, IRIN (4 March 2016)
- ^ a b Read more on UNIAN:ATO HQ doubts disengagement in Stanytsia Luhanska soon (22-01-2017)
- ^ Disengagement of forces in Donbas stalled, Interfax-Ukraine (17.11.2017)
- ^ [1]
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