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Popasna (Ukrainian: Попасна, Russian: Попасная, tr. Popasnaya) is a city in the Sievierodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. The town is currently occupied by Russian Forces. In 2013, it had almost 22,000 inhabitants. Prior to 2020, it was the administrative center of the former Popasna Raion.

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Popasna Попасна (Ukrainian)
City
Popasna railway station
Flag Coat of arms
Popasna Show map of Luhansk Oblast Popasna Show map of Ukraine
Coordinates: 48°38′00″N 38°22′48″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Luhansk Oblast
Raion	Sievierodonetsk Raion
Country (de jure)	Ukraine
Control	Occupied by Luhansk People's Republic and Russia
Population  (2021)	19,672 (2,021 est.)[1]

History

During World War II, in 1941–1943, the German occupiers operated a Nazi prison in the town.[2]

A local newspaper is published in the city since March 1979.[3]

On 19 June 2014, Ukrainian forces reportedly secured the town from pro-Russian separatists.[4] On 8 July 2014, the pro-Russian separatists retook control of the town.[5][6] On 22 July 2014 the Ukrainian Donbas Battalion retook the town from the pro-Russian separatists.[7][8] According to an eyewitness the pro-Russian separatists had abandoned the town that day.[7] Since then the city comes under periodic attack from the separatists.[9][10] Land mines have been laid near Popasna.[11] In March 2015 the city only had two stores with some basic products and one pharmacy and residents received food distribution through a volunteer organization.[9] Meanwhile, residents complained about having to pay for public utilities and for having been cut off from social benefits supplied by the Ukrainian government.[9]

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

See also Battle of Popasna

In 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Popasna was attacked by Russian forces.[12] During the Battle of Donbas (2022), the city has been at the frontlines of fighting between Russia and Ukraine.

In the fighting near Popasna, Russian forces reportedly damaged or destroyed every property in the town center. Seriy Hayday, the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, claimed that Russian forces were "removing [Popasna] from the map of Luhansk region".[13] On 8 May 2022, Governor of Luhansk Oblast Serhiy Haidai confirmed that Ukrainian troops were forced to retreat from the city of Popasna to take up more fortified positions, adding "everything was destroyed there". On 8 May, Ukrainian forces announced that they had withdrawn from Popasna, allowing Russia to fully occupy the town.[14] Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov stated that his troops now control most of the city.[15]

Photographic evidence as reveled by the governor of Luhansk Oblast that Russian forces had beheaded and dismembered a Ukrainian soldier and displayed his body parts stuck on poles in the captured city.[16]

On August 15, 2022, it was reported that Ukrainian forces bombed the regional headquarters of the Wagner Group after a pro-Kremlin reporter revealed its location at Mironovskaya 12 in a photo.[17]

The leader of the Russian proxy republic LNR stated there is no point in rebuilding the city destroyed during the Russian assault.[18]

References

На других языках

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[de] Popasna

Popasna (ukrainisch Попасна; russisch Попасная .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}Popasnaja) ist eine Stadt in der Oblast Luhansk im Osten der Ukraine mit 21.257 Einwohnern (2013).[1]

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- [en] Popasna

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[es] Popásnaya

Popasna (en ucraniano, Попасна, en ruso, Попа́сная) es una ciudad del sudeste de Ucrania, en el óblast de Lugansk, y es el centro administrativo del raión de Popásnaya. Está situada a 71 kilómetros al oeste de Lugansk. Su población es de 21.917 habitantes (2013).[1]

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[ru] Попасная

Попа́сная (укр. Попасна) — город районного значения в Луганской области Украины. До 2020 года административный центр Попаснянского района, после упразднения которого вошёл в состав Северодонецкого района.

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