Verbove, Polohy Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Verbove
Вербо́ве | |
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 Flag  Seal | |
  Verbove Location of Verbove in Zaporizhzhia Oblast  Verbove Verbove (Ukraine) | |
| Coordinates: 47°25′36″N 35°59′49″E / 47.42667°N 35.99694°E | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Zaporizhzhia Oblast |
| Raion | Polohy |
| Hromada | Polohy urban hromada |
| Founded | 1790 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8,462 km2 (3,267 sq mi) |
| Population (2001)[1] | |
| • Total | 1,238 |
| • Density | 0.15/km2 (0.38/sq mi) |
| Area code | +380 6165 |
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Verbove (Ukrainian: Вербо́ве, pronounced [werˈbɔwe]) is a village in Polohy Raion, in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast of southern Ukraine. It is administratively located in Polohy urban hromada. It had a population of 1,246 as of 2001. A small river, the Verbova, flows north-westward through the village and on to Orikhiv, where it joins the Konka river.
History
[edit]The village was founded in the 1790s[2] under the Russian Empire by migrants from the Poltava region.[citation needed]
As a result of the Holodomor, a manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s, 269 people in the village died.[3]
Russo-Ukrainian War
[edit]During the Russian invasion of Ukraine phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Verbove was occupied by Russian forces as part of its southern campaign sometime between late February/early March, prior to the battle of Orikhiv.[citation needed]
Sometime in June 2022, the Second World War monument "Mother in Sorrow", which stood over a mass grave where 972 Red Army soldiers are buried.[citation needed]
On 30 August 2023, during the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive, Ukrainian troops reached the northwestern outskirts of Verbove.[4] On 6 September, Ukrainian troops advanced along the line of Russian fortifications and entered the northwestern part of the village.[5][6][7] However, by 27 February 2024, Russian forces had forced the Ukrainians out of the village, back beyond the first Russian defensive belt, and restarted small-scale offensive operations around nearby Robotyne.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "All-Ukrainian population census". db.ukrcensus.gov.ua. State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ Князьков, Ю. (2004). Запорізька область. Запоріжжя: Тандем-У. p. 205.
...згадка про заснування села у 1790-ті рр. (... a mention that the village was founded in the 1790s)
- ^ "Вербове". Геоінформаційна система місць «Голодомор 1932—1933 років в Україні». Ukrainian Institute of National Memory. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
- ^ Evans, Angelica; Stepanenko, Kateryna; Mappes, Grace; Harward, Christina; Kagan, Frederick W. "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 30, 2023". Institute for the Study of War. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ "Где заметнее всего продвигаются ВСУ и как россияне жалуются на потери и дефицит средств контрбатарейной борьбы — ISW" (in Ukrainian). Nv.ua. 6 September 2023.
- ^ Nicole Wolkov; Angelica Evans; Christina Harward; Riley Bailey; Frederick W. Kagan (21 September 2023). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 21, 2023". understandingwar.org. ISW. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
Geolocated footage published on September 20 indicates that Ukrainian forces advanced southwest and west of Verbove (18km southeast of Orikhiv).
- ^ "В ВСУ сообщили о прорыве линии российской обороны у села Вербовое в Запорожской области" [The AFU reported a break of the Russian defence line near the village of Verbovoye in the Zaporizhzhia region]. dw.com (in Russian). DW. 23 September 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ Riley Bailey; Christina Harward; Karolina Hird; Grace Mappes; Frederick W. Kagan (27 February 2024). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 27, 2024". understandingwar.org. ISW. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
