Przewodów Explained

Przewodów
Settlement Type:Village
Total Type: 
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Hrubieszów
Subdivision Type3:Gmina
Subdivision Name3:Dołhobyczów
Coordinates:50.4744°N 23.9275°W
Pushpin Map:Poland
Pushpin Label Position:left
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Elevation M:236
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population As Of:2021
Population Total:413
Registration Plate:LHR

Przewodów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dołhobyczów, within Hrubieszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in southeastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine.[2] It lies approximately 15km (09miles) southwest of Dołhobyczów, 390NaN0 south of Hrubieszów, and 1290NaN0 southeast of the capital of the Voivodeship, Lublin. It is also about 1200NaN0 north of Lviv in Ukraine. The village is located in the historical region of Galicia.[3]

History

Missile strike

See main article: 2022 missile explosion in Poland. On the evening of 15 November 2022, the village was hit by a stray missile[4] of Ukrainian origin as a result of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, killing two people.[5] [6] [7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The village of Przewodów . polskawliczbach.pl . 15 November 2022 . Polish.
  2. Web site: Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal). 1 June 2008. Polish.
  3. Web site: Sokal (The early 1900s gazetteer of Austria-Hungary: Galizien) . 18 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180219090308/http://www.austriahungary.info/en/gazetteer1900/galizien/sokal . 19 February 2018 . dead .
  4. News: Morris . Loveday . November 16, 2022 . Border village in east Poland hit by deadly fallout from war next door . . December 2, 2022 . Przewodow, border village in Poland, hit by deadly fallout of Russia's war - The Washington Post... After a stray missile killed two local men, Przewodow, a village in east Poland, found itself at the center of fears about a direct conflict between Russia and NATO..
  5. Web site: 2022-11-15 . Poland: Russian-made missile fell on our country, killing 2 . 2022-11-15 . AP NEWS .
  6. News: Russian missiles kill two people in NATO member Poland, US intelligence official says . news.sky.com . 15 November 2022 . 15 November 2022.
  7. Web site: 2022-11-15 . No concrete evidence on who fired missile, Poland's Duda says . 2022-11-15 . Reuters . Warsaw.