Lutuhyne
{{short description|City in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine}}
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Lutuhyne ({{Langx|uk|Лутугине}}, {{Langx|ru|Лутугино}}) is a city in the Luhansk Raion of Luhansk Oblast (region) of Eastern Ukraine, Donbas. Residence of Lutuhyne urban hromada. The 2022 population was {{Ua-pop-est2022|17,061|.}}
History
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From mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in Luhansk Oblast,{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/117387/putin-accidentally-helping-unite-eastern-and-western-ukraine|title=Vladimir Putin is Accidentally Bringing Eastern and Western Ukraine Together|magazine=The New Republic|date=16 April 2014|last1=Ragozin|first1=Leonid}}{{Cite web|url=http://en.itar-tass.com/world/735082|title=Donbass defenders put WWII tank back into service}} including Lutuhyne.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/specter-of-violence-in-eastern-ukraine-keeps-voters-from-polls-349162.html|title=Specter of violence in eastern Ukraine keeps voters from polls - May. 24, 2014|date=24 May 2014}} On 27 July 2014, Ukrainian forces claimed their troops had entered the city, and would restore Ukrainian control, yet by autumn it was clear that Lutuhyne was under the control of the pro-Russian, self-declared Lugansk People's Republic, and would remain that way from autumn 2014 on. {{Cite web|url=http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/215712.html|title = ATO forces take over Debaltseve, Shakhtarsk, Torez, Lutuhyne, fighting for Pervomaisk and Snizhne underway - ATO press center}} {{cite web|url=http://gkslg.info/files/chisl_0915.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204211939/http://gkslg.info/files/chisl_0915.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 February 2016|script-title=ru:Численность населения по состоянию на 1 октября 2015 года по Луганской Народной Республике|publisher=Luhansk People's Republic|language=Russian|accessdate=21 December 2015}} After the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the city became the scene of significant pro-Ukrainian partisan warfare.{{Cite web |date=2023-01-09 |title=Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 9, 2023|url=https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-january-9-2023|access-date=2024-08-19 |website=www.understandingwar.org |language=en}} Following the highly disputed 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Russia has claimed the settlement as their territory.
Demographics
Ethnic composition and native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:{{cite web |url=http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua/ |title=Home |website=ukrcensus.gov.ua}}{{cite web | url=https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/ethnic-cities | title=Національний склад міст }}
{{bar box|title=Ethnic groups in Lutuhyne|titlebar=#ddd|left1=|right1=percent|bars={{bar percent|Ukrainians|dodgerblue|66.63}}
{{bar percent|Russians|purple|31.00}}
{{bar percent|Belarusians|red|0.70}}
{{bar percent|Armenians|brown|0.41}}}}
{{bar box|title=Native languages in Lutuhyne|titlebar=#ddd|left1=|right1=percent|bars={{bar percent|Russian|purple|56.93}}
{{bar percent|Ukrainian|dodgerblue|42.35}}
{{bar percent|Armenian|brown|0.26}}
{{bar percent|Belarusian|red|0.06}}}}
Gallery
File:Лутугине2.JPG|Lutuhyne church
File:Лутугине3.JPG|Monument to L. I. Lutugin, founder of the city
File:Озброєні_лутугінці_з_міністром_АПК_Ігорем_Швайкою.jpg|Ihor Shvaika with pro-Ukrainian volunteers from Lutuhyne during the War in Donbas
Notable people
- Ihor Shvaika (born 1976), Ukrainian politician (Svoboda)
References
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{{Luhansk Oblast}}
{{War in Donbass}}
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Category:Cities in Luhansk Oblast
Category:Cities of district significance in Ukraine
Category:Populated places established in the Russian Empire
Category:Lutuhyne urban hromada
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