Rozivka Raion ( uk, Розівський район) was a former
raion (
districts) of
Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern
Ukraine. The administrative center of the region was the
urban-type settlement of
Rozivka. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Zaporizhzhia Oblast to five. The area of Rozivka Raion was merged into
Polohy Raion. The last estimate of the raion population was
On 19 April 2022, 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 ...
, a town hall assembly was reportedly organized in Russian-occupied Rozivka, where a majority of attendees (mainly seniors) voted by hand to join the separatist
DPR. This came despite two major issues. The first being that the raion is outside the
Donetsk Oblast
The Donetsk Oblast ( ukr, Донецька область, Donetska oblast, ), also referred to as Donechchyna ( ukr, Донеччина, links=no), is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 mill ...
and therefore outside the borders claimed by the DPR and its leadership. The second being that the raion hadn't existed for over two years at the time of the vote. Locals claimed the vote was rigged and that organizers threatened anyone voting against with arrest and since the vote the town has been
De facto governed by the DPR.
References
Former raions of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
1992 establishments in Ukraine
Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform
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