Verbove (, ) is a village in

Polohy Raion Polohy Raion () is one of the five raions (districts) of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern Ukraine. The administrative center of the region is the town of Polohy. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the n ...

, in the

Zaporizhzhia Oblast Zaporizhzhia Oblast (), commonly referred to as Zaporizhzhia (), is an oblast (region) in south-east Ukraine. Its administrative centre is the city of Zaporizhzhia. The oblast covers an area of , and has a population of The oblast is an import ...

of southern

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. It is administratively located in

Polohy urban hromada Polohy urban hromada () is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Polohy Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Polohy. It was formed on 30 March 2018 through the merger of local settlement councils in Polohy Raion. It has an ...

. It had a population of 1,246 as of 2001. A small river, the , flows north-westward through the village and on to

Orikhiv Orikhiv (, ; , ) is a city in Polohy Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, southern Ukraine. It had an estimated population of as of 1 January 2022. Early in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, many residents were evacuated, with 6,000 remaining by Au ...

, where it joins the Konka river.

History

The village was founded in the 1790s by migrants from the

Poltava region Poltava Oblast (), also referred to as Poltavshchyna (), is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava. Most of its territory was part of the southern regions of the Cossack Hetmanate. ...

. As a result of the

Holodomor The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a mass famine in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–193 ...

, a manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s, 269 people in the village died.

Russo-Ukrainian War

During the

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phase of the

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, in late February or early March 2022 (prior to the

battle of Orikhiv The southern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is an ongoing Theater (warfare)#Theatre of operation, theatre of operation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on 24 February 2022. The Russian Armed Forces, Russian military inva ...

), Verbove was occupied by

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as part of its

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. In June 2022, Russian forces destroyed the

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monument "Mother in Sorrow", which stood over a mass grave in the village cemetery where 972

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soldiers are buried. On 30 August 2023, during the

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, Ukrainian troops reached the northwestern outskirts of Verbove. On 6 September, Ukrainian troops advanced along the line of Russian fortifications and entered the northwestern part of the village. By January 2024, Russian forces were engaged in counter-offensive operations in areas close to the village. Ukrainian and Russian forces continue in small-scale engagements along the line of their positions between Verbove and

Robotyne Robotyne (, ) is a village in Polohy Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. Administratively, it is part of Tokmak urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The village is approximately southeast of Orikhiv, and north of Tokmak. It had a p ...

References

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