Milove ( uk, Мілове) is the easternmost

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 ...

in the

Starobilsk Raion Starobilsk Raion () is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district is the town of Starobilsk. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of r ...

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 ...

in eastern

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. Population: . Prior to 2020, it was the administrative centre of the former Milove Raion. The town is currently occupied by

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troops. The town is adjacent to the

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n town of Chertkovo in Rostov Oblast.Ukraine crisis: Life on street dividing Ukraine and Russia

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(29 August 2015) Its train station used to be on the Russian side of the border at Chertkovo railway station.

History

Milove was first mentioned in 1872 as

khutir A khutor ( rus, хутор, p=ˈxutər) or khutir ( uk, хутiр, pl. , ''khutory'') is a type of rural locality in some countries of Eastern Europe; in the past the term mostly referred to a single- homestead settlement.

. It was a small settlement in

Kharkov Governorate The Kharkov Governorate ( pre-reform Russian: , tr. ''Khárkovskaya gubérniya'', IPA: �xarʲkəfskəjə ɡʊˈbʲernʲɪjə ) was a governorate of the Russian Empire founded in 1835. It embraced the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. Fro ...

of the

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. It has had the status of an urban-type settlement since 1938. During

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it was under German occupation from July 1942 to January 1943. Later, it was a Soviet stronghold during the

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. In January 1959 the population was 4592 people. In January 1989 the population was 5921 people. At the outbreak of the

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, Milove was not very affected by the war that raged in much of the region. However, on November 12, 2014, a Ukrainian border guard office was shot at with a grenade launcher leaving no casualties. Political tensions led to security cameras being installed on the Russian side of the border, and a fence being erected on the Ukrainian side of the border. On November 27, 2015, two Russian servicemen were detained in the city, and later exchanged back to Russian authorities. It was occupied by Russian forces on February 24, 2022, during the

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People from Milove

* Yuriy Harbuz (born 1971), Ukrainian politician

References

Urban-type settlements in Starobilsk Raion Starobilsk Raion Russia–Ukraine border crossings {{Luhansk-geo-stub