Vasylivka (; ) is a village in

Pokrovsk Raion Pokrovsk Raion (; ) is a raion (district) within Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Pokrovsk. It has an area of and its population is approximately An architectural monument in the raion is the Petropavlovs'ka Chu ...

(

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

) in

Donetsk Oblast Donetsk Oblast, also referred to as Donechchyna (, ), is an Oblasts of Ukraine, oblast in eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 million residents. Its capital city, administrative centre is Donetsk, though d ...

of eastern Ukraine, north-northeast from the centre of

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; ; ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capita ...

city. The settlement was taken under control of pro-Russian forces (the DPR) during the

War in Donbass The war in Donbas, or the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. The war began in April 2014, when Russian paramilitaries seized several towns. Ukraine's military launched an operation ...

, that started in 2014.

Demographics

In 2001, the settlement had 371 inhabitants. Native language distribution as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001: * Ukrainian: 29.92% *Russian: 70.08%

References

Villages in Pokrovsk Raion Ocheretyne settlement hromada {{Donetsk-geo-stub