Sahy ( uk, Саги) is a small village in the
Kherson Raion of the
Kherson Oblast
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in
Ukraine with a pre-war population of 770.
It has an area of . Sahy is located around 8.5 miles (13.6 km) south-east of the city of
Kherson
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.
The village's
time-zone
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is
UTC+2 (
UTC+3 in the
summer
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), which is standard across Ukraine except for the separatist
Donetsk and
Luhansk People's Republics, which observe
Moscow Standard time (UTC+3).
The village is currently
occupied
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by
Russian forces, due to the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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. Due to the
Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam on June 6, 2023, the village was temporarily flooded.
References
Villages in Kherson Raion
Oleshky urban hromada
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