| Lozove Лозове | |
|---|---|
  Lozove Location of Lozove within Ukraine | |
| Coordinates: 48°00′18″N37°38′38″E / 48.005°N 37.643889°E Coordinates: 48°00′18″N37°38′38″E / 48.005°N 37.643889°E | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Province | Donetsk Oblast |
| District | Yasynuvata Raion |
| Elevation | 182 m (597 ft) |
| Population (2001 census) | |
| • Total | 366 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Postal code | 83020 |
| Area code | +380 6236 |
Lozove (Ukrainian : Лозове; Russian: Лозовое) is a rural settlement in Yasynuvata Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at 15 km W from the centre of Donetsk city.
Ukrainian is an East Slavic language. It is the official state language of Ukraine, one of the three official languages in the unrecognized state of Transnistria, the other two being Romanian and Russian. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic script.
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live. The complexity of a settlement can range from a small number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. Settlements may include hamlets, villages, towns and cities. A settlement may have known historical properties such as the date or era in which it was first settled, or first settled by particular people.
Yasynuvata Raion is one of the 18 administrative raions of Donetsk Oblast, located in southeastern Ukraine. The administrative center of the district is the city of Yasynuvata, which is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the districts jurisdiction. Population: 27,845 (2013 est.)
The settlement was taken under control of pro-Russian forces during the War in Donbass, that started in 2014. [1]
The War in Donbass is an armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine. From the beginning of March 2014, protests by pro-Russian and anti-government groups took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, commonly collectively called the "Donbass", in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement. These demonstrations, which followed the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, and which were part of a wider group of concurrent pro-Russian protests across southern and eastern Ukraine, escalated into an armed conflict between the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, and the Ukrainian government. In the Donetsk People's Republic, from May 2014 until a change of the top leadership in August 2014, some of the top leaders were Russian citizens. According to the Ukrainian government, at the height of the conflict in mid-2014, Russian paramilitaries were reported to make up between 15% to 80% of the combatants.
