Yakovlivka ( uk, Яковлівка; russian: link=no, Яковлевка) is a village in
Donetsk Raion (
district; formerly
Yasynuvata Raion
Yasynuvata Raion ( uk, Ясинуватський район, ) was one of the administrative raions (a ''district'') of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district was the city of Yasynuvata, whic ...
) in
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 ...
of eastern
Ukraine, at 9.9 km
NNE from the centre of
Donetsk city, on the right bank of the
Kalmius river.
The settlement was taken under control of Russian forces during the
War in Donbass, that started in mid-April 2014.
30 homes were destroyed and three people killed by airstrikes in Yakovlika in 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 was captured by
PMC Wagner mercenaries on December 16th, 2022.
Demographics
In 2001 the settlement had 971 inhabitants. Native language distribution as of the
Ukrainian Census of 2001:
*
Ukrainian: 59.65%
*Russian: 39.42%
* other languages: 0.93%
References
Villages in Donetsk Raion
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