Yatskivka ( uk, Яцьківка; russian: link=no, Яцковка) is village in
Kramatorsk Raion (
district) 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 about
north-northwest
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from the centre of
Donetsk city, near the southern corner of the
Oskil Reservoir
The Oskil Reservoir ( uk, Оскільське водосховище; russian: Оскольское водохранилище, sometimes translated as ''Oskol'', ''Oskilske -'') was an artificial lake on the Oskil River in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine ...
. It belongs to Lyman Urban Hromada, one of the ''
hromada
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s'' of Ukraine.
The village came under attack by
Russian forces
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in 2022, during the
Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It was liberated by Ukrainian forces on 23 September 2022, during the
2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive
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.
References
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Villages in Kramatorsk Raion