Horodyshche, Bilovodsk settlement hromada, Starobilsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast explained

Horodyshche (; Russian: Городище|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

49.0544°N 39.6439°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Мартиролог. Луганська, ст. 33-35 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140224040757/http://www.memory.gov.ua:8080/data/upload/publication/main/ua/1090/103.pdf . 24 February 2014 . 30 December 2015.
2. Web site: У Луганській області російські війська захопили 2 населених пункти . https://web.archive.org/web/20220224062610/https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/news/luganskoy-oblasti-rossiyskie-voyska-zahvatili-1645683060.html . 24 February 2022 . 2022-02-24 . РБК-Украина . ru.
3. News: Petrenko . Roman . На Луганщині обстріляли авто з топ-колаборантами . uk . 2023-11-09.
4. News: Motyl . Alexander . 2022-08-14 . Ukraine Is Waging Guerilla Warfare Hell on Putin . en-US . 2023-11-09.