Английская Википедия:Horodyshche, Bilovodsk settlement hromada, Starobilsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast
Horodyshche (Шаблон:Lang-uk; Шаблон:Lang-ru) is a village in northeastern Ukraine, in Bilovodsk settlement hromada, Starobilsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast. It has a population of 1777 people.
History
As a result of the Holodomor, a manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, there were a documented 132 deaths in the village.[1]
On 24 February 2022, the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the village was taken over and occupied by Russia.[2] On 4 August 2022, Ukrainian partisans shot at a car carrying Vitaly Kovalenko - the Russian-installed head of the re-established Bilovodsk Raion - and his deputy Valentyna Hladkova, wounding both.[3][4] The two had been on their way from Horodyshche, where Kovalenko lives.[3]
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