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Bahatyr
Village in Donetsk Oblast From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bahatyr (Ukrainian: Багатир; Russian: Богатырь, romanized: Bogatyr) is a village in Velyka Novosilka settlement hromada, Volnovakha Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
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History
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On 30 August 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine the Russian military shelled the village using the S-300 missile system, killing two civilians and wounding seven.[1][2] On 12 October 2023, the Russians again shelled the village using the Smerch missile system, killing one child and injuring another child and a woman.[3] The settlement allegedly was captured by Russia on 17 May 2025.[4] The capture of the village by the Russian army was definitively confirmed on June 29, after two long weeks of fighting. [5]
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Demographics
According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the village had a population of 1695 people. In terms of native language, 7.61% of them spoke Ukrainian, 90.97% spoke Russian and 1.18% spoke Greek.[6]
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