Klishchiivka, ; russian: Клещиевка, Kleshchievka known as Karlivka until 1945, is a village in Bakhmut Raion,

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, eastern

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. It is located about north by east ( NbE) of the centre of

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and about south-southwest ( SSW) of

Bakhmut Bakhmut ( uk, Ба́хмут, ) is a city in the Donbas and the administrative centre of Bakhmut Raion in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the Bakhmutka River, about 89 km north of Donetsk city, the administrative center of the o ...

, it also belongs to

Bakhmut urban hromada Bakhmut urban hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Bakhmut. It was founded on 26 June, 2019, from the merger of local village councils in Bakhmut Raion. The hromada c ...

. It has been a frontline village of the battle of Bakhmut during the

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History

In 1841, the village's Church of the Intercession was built. The village was previously named ''Karlivka'' ( uk, Карлівка) until it received its current name on 15 August 1945. On 29 June 2015, during the

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, , a senior soldier of the "Chernihiv-1" battalion, was fatally wounded at a checkpoint near the village.

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Fighting over the village started on 29 November 2022 as part of the battle of Bakhmut of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The settlement was captured by

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on 19 January 2023. Following counterattacks around Bakhmut, battles for the village resumed as Ukrainian forces reentered it on 23 July 2023. At the end of August, 45th Separate Artillery Brigade destroyed two Russian infantry fighting vehicles and a tank near the bridge crossing trying to advance in Klishchiivka. On 5 September the fighters of the Tsunami Regiment of the Lyut Brigade attacked Russian positions in the center of the village. Two days later, the 3rd Assault Brigade advanced through the forest north-west of the village establishing fire control over the passage near the destroyed bridge by cutting out the Russian supply route from

. Russian troops were able to hold only the north-eastern outskirts of the village, about 400 meters from the railway tracks. On 17 September, it was announced that troops of the 80th Air Assault Brigade, 5th Assault Brigade, 95th Air Assault Brigade, and the Lyut Brigade participated in the liberation of the settlement.

Demographics

The settlement had 512 inhabitants in 2001. The native language distribution according to the

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was: 84.96%

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, 14.65% Russian, and 0.39% other.

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References

Villages in Bakhmut Raion Bakhmut urban hromada {{Donetsk-geo-stub