| Buhas | |||||||
| Native Name: | Бугас | ||||||
| Native Name Lang: | uk | ||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Donetsk Oblast#Ukraine | ||||||
| Coordinates: | 47.6344°N 37.5614°W | ||||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom | ||||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||
| Subdivision Name: | Ukraine | ||||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Oblast | ||||||
| Subdivision Type2: | Raion | ||||||
| Subdivision Type3: | Hromada | ||||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Donetsk Oblast | ||||||
| Subdivision Name2: | Volnovakha Raion | ||||||
| Subdivision Name3: | Volnovakha settlement hromada | ||||||
| Settlement Type: | Village | ||||||
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Velyka Novosilka within Donetsk Oblast | ||||||
| Unit Pref: | Metric | ||||||
| Population Total: | 1196 | ||||||
| Population As Of: | 2001 | ||||||
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Buhas is a village in southeastern Ukraine, located in Volnovakha urban hromada, Volnovakha Raion, Donetsk Oblast. It was known as Maksymivka during the times of the Soviet Union.
On 13 January 2015, during the War in Donbas, there was an artillery strike against a civilian bus near Buhas. According to early reports, 10 passengers died and 13 were injured.[1]
According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the village had a population of 1449, of whom 5.59% natively spoke Ukrainian, 70.39% spoke Russian, 22.29% spoke Greek, 0.14% spoke Belarusian and 0.07% spoke Armenian. Buhas is a multi-ethnic town, with the majority of the population being Ukrainian, Russian and Greek, with smaller Armenian and Belarusian communities, yet a significant part of the population stated at the time of the census to be from 'another' ethnicity and to speak 'another' native language.[2]