Chervonopopivka ( uk, Червонопопівка) is a village in

Sievierodonetsk Raion Sievierodonetsk Raion ( uk, Сєвєродонецький район, russian: Северодонецкий район) is a Raions of Ukraine, raion (district) of Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. It was created in July 2020 as part of the reform of admi ...

in the

Luhansk Oblast Luhansk Oblast ( uk, Луга́нська о́бласть, translit=Luhanska oblast; russian: Луганская область, translit=Luganskaya oblast; also referred to as Luhanshchyna, uk, Луга́нщина) is the easternmost oblast ...

(

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

) of Ukraine.

History

The village of Chervonopopivka was historically located in the

Kreminna Raion Kreminna Raion () was a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of Eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was the town of Kreminna. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced ...

which, as of 18 July 2020, was abolished and merged into the Sievierodonetsk Raion. During the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

, the village was captured and occupied by Russian forces within the month of March 2022. Ukrainian forces would recapture the village in October 2022, then the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the village was recaptured by Russian forces on 11 December 2022, but on the 15th of December the village was recaptured by Ukraine according to ISW and the

General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ( uk, Генеральний штаб Збройних сил України) is the military staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is the central organ of the Armed Forces Administration and ov ...

Notable people

* (1914–1944), commander and

Hero of the Soviet Union The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...

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