Milove Raion (, translit. ''Milovs'kyi raion''; , translit. ''Melovskiy raion'') was a

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...

(district) in

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 ...

of eastern

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 ...

. It was located on the Russian border. The administrative center of the raion was the

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

Milove Milove ( uk, Мілове) is the easternmost urban-type settlement in the Starobilsk Raion of Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Population: . Prior to 2020, it was the administrative centre of the former Milove Raion. The town is currently occu ...

. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast to eight, of which only four were controlled by the government. The last estimate of the raion population was . The territory of the former raion was occupied by invading Russian forces early in the

2022 Russian invasion 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 List of largest refugee crises, largest refugee cris ...

of Ukraine.

Demographics

As of 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.

: ;Ethnicity * Ukrainians: 77.7% * Russians: 19.6% * Belarusians: 0.3%

References

Former raions of Luhansk Oblast 1920 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Luhansk-geo-stub