Kyselivka ( uk, Киселівка, ) is a village (selo) of
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
, in
Chornobaivka rural hromada
The Chornobaivka rural hromada is an amalgamated hromada in Ukraine, in Kherson Raion of Kherson Oblast. Its administrative center is Chornobaivka. Population:
Settlements
The hromada contains 9 settlements: Barvinok, Blahodatne, Zelenyi ...
,
Kherson Raion,
Kherson Oblast
Kherson Oblast ( uk, Херсо́нська о́бласть, translit=Khersónsʹka óblastʹ, ), also known as Khersonshchyna ( uk, Херсо́нщина, ), is an oblast (province) in southern Ukraine, currently claimed and partly occupied ...
.
History
The village was affected by the
Holodomor
The Holodomor ( uk, Голодомо́р, Holodomor, ; derived from uk, морити голодом, lit=to kill by starvation, translit=moryty holodom, label=none), also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a man-made famin ...
, in which an estimated 24 inhabitants of the village died. Due to resistance to
collectivization, criminal cases were opened against many villagers.
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Following 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 came under Russian occupation. According to the
Ukrainian army, on the night of 29 April, 2022, a firefight took place between
ethnic Chechen and
Buryat soldiers in the
Russian army
The Russian Ground Forces (russian: Сухопутные войска В Sukhoputnyye voyska V, also known as the Russian Army (, ), are the Army, land forces of the Russian Armed Forces.
The primary responsibilities of the Russian Gro ...
. There were allegedly more than 50 participants on each side.
The reason for the conflict was purportedly reluctance from the Buryats to conduct offensive hostilities, as well as resentment of perceived "inequality" in conditions with the Chechens. The Chechens were involved in the safe job of keeping the back line, and also allegedly taking a disproportionate share of the loot. A Kherson oblast official claimed that Ukraine restored control over the village on 14 September, but this was not confirmed by the Ukrainian military or independent sources. On 10 November 2022, it was reported that Ukrainian forces had retaken the village.
Demographics
In the
1989 Soviet census
The 1989 Soviet census (russian: Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989, lit=1989 All-Union Census), conducted between 12 and 19 January of that year, was the last one that took place in the Soviet Union. The census found ...
, the village was found to have 2,533 inhabitants, of whom 1,199 were men and 1,334 women.
According to the
2001 Ukrainian census
The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989. , the village had 2,466 inhabitants.
Languages
The languages of the village's inhabitants were:
References
{{Kherson Raion
Villages in Kherson Raion
Chornobaivka rural hromada