Sakko i Vantsetti
{{About|the village in Ukraine||Sacco and Vanzetti (disambiguation)}}
{{short description|Village in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine}}
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| native_name = Сакко і Ванцетті
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| established_date = 1923/1924
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Sakko i Vantsetti ({{langx|uk|Сакко і Ванцетті}}; {{langx|ru|link=no|Сакко и Ванцетти}}, {{translation|Sacco and Vanzetti}}) is a village in Bakhmut Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It is part of Soledar urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.{{Cite web |title=Сакко і Ванцетті - Донецька область |url=https://decentralization.gov.ua/locality/26817 |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=decentralization.gov.ua}}
History
Sakko i Vantsetti was originally created as a commune in the Soviet Union in 1923–1924. It was closely connected to nearby Vasiukivka.{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Васюківка, Артемівський район, Донецька область|encyclopedia=Історія міст і сіл Української РСР |url=https://ukrssr.com.ua/donetska/artemivskiy/vasyukivka-artemivskiy-rayon-donetska-oblast |language=uk}} It was named after the Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were controversially convicted in 1921 of murdering a paymaster and a security guard at a shoe factory in the United States, executed in 1927 and rehabilitated in 1977 by Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis."Proclamation by the Governor" (1977), pp. 797–799; also included in Young and Kaiser, pp. 3–4, and Tropp, pp. 182–184. Soviet propaganda celebrated Sacco and Vanzetti as unjustly accused proletarians and revolutionaries.{{cite web|title=Населення — 3 особи: Пригожин похвалився "взяттям" села на Донеччині (фото)|url=https://focus.ua/uk/voennye-novosti/547991-naselenie-3-cheloveka-prigozhin-pohvastalsya-vzyatiem-sela-v-doneckoy-oblasti-foto|date=February 1, 2023|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20230201214642/https://focus.ua/uk/voennye-novosti/547991-naselenie-3-cheloveka-prigozhin-pohvastalsya-vzyatiem-sela-v-doneckoy-oblasti-foto|archivedate=February 1, 2023|lang=uk|trans-title=Population — 3 people: Prigozhin boasted of "capturing" a hamlet in Donetsk region (photo)}}
Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 1, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed his Wagner Group paramilitary fighters had captured Sakko i Vantsetti, posting a photograph purporting to show four of his soldiers posing in front of what they called "the only surviving house" in the village.{{cite web|title=Населення — 3 особи: Пригожин похвалився "взяттям" села на Донеччині (фото)|url=https://focus.ua/uk/voennye-novosti/547991-naselenie-3-cheloveka-prigozhin-pohvastalsya-vzyatiem-sela-v-doneckoy-oblasti-foto|date=February 1, 2023|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20230201214642/https://focus.ua/uk/voennye-novosti/547991-naselenie-3-cheloveka-prigozhin-pohvastalsya-vzyatiem-sela-v-doneckoy-oblasti-foto|archivedate=February 1, 2023|lang=uk|trans-title=Population — 3 people: Prigozhin boasted of "capturing" a hamlet in Donetsk region (photo)}} By the middle of May 2023, Russian forces were claimed to have retreated from the village following local Ukrainian counterattacks.
Demographics
The 1989 Census in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union recorded a total population of 19 in Sakko i Vantsetti, 12 men and 7 women.{{Cite web|url=http://db.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=19A0501_061_014&ti=19A0501_061_014.%20Number%20of%20actual%20and%20permanent%20population%20in%20rural%20areas,%20Donetska%20oblast%20(1,2,3,4)&path=../Database/Census/01/01/&lang=2&multilang=en|title=19A0501_061_014. Number of actual and permanent population in rural areas, Donetska oblast (1,2,3,4), s. SAKKO I VANTSETTI|website=State Statistics Service of Ukraine|access-date=February 1, 2023}} The population declined by the time of the first independent Ukrainian Census of 2001, which recorded 3 inhabitants in the village.{{Cite web|url=http://db.ukrcensus.gov.ua/MULT/dialog/varval.asp?ma=19A0501_07_014&ti=19A0501%5F07%5F014%2E+Number+of+actual+population+in+rural+areas%2C+Donetska+oblast+%281%2C2%2C3%2C4%29&path=%2E%2E%2FDatabase%2FCensus%2F01%2F02%2F&xu=&yp=&lang=2&multilang=en|title=19A0501_07_014. Number of actual population in rural areas, Donetska oblast (1,2,3,4), s. SAKKO I VANTSETTI|website=State Statistics Service of Ukraine|access-date=February 1, 2023}}
References
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{{cite web|url=https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-18-2023 |title=Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 18, 2023 |publisher=ISW |date=2023-05-18|access-date=2023-05-19 |website=understandingwar.org |author=Grace Mappes |author2=Kateryna Stepanenko |author3=Nicole Wolkov |author4=Layne Philipson |author5=Frederick W. Kagan |quote=The milbloggers also claimed that Russian forces retreated from positions north of Sakko i Vantsetti (15km north of Bakhmut) to positions south of the settlement, but that Ukrainian forces have not yet entered the settlement.}}
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