Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion
Template:Infobox Ukrainian raion Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion (Template:Lang-uk) is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. the administrative center of the raion is the urban-type settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska. Population: 49,797 (2013 est.)[1].
On July 2, 2014, this town and Mykolaivka were badly hit; nine civilians were killed. The Ukrainian authorities said the bloodshed happened when rebel forces launched rockets from a Grad rocket launcher; the Grad was later seized by government forces. A resident of the Kondrashovka locality (part of this place) said that an aircraft first targeted an insurgent position nearby, but that its second strike hit the village. The deputy commander of a Ukrainian battalion said the place may have been hit both by the aircraft and by shelling from outside.
Demographics
Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[2]
- Russian 85.1%
- Ukrainian 14.2%
- Armenian 0.2%
- Belarusian 0.1%
- Romani 0.1%
References
- ^ Чисельність наявного населення України [Actual population of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
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