Stanytsia Luhanska

Stanytsia Luhanska (Ukrainian: Станиця Луганська; Russian: Станица Луганская) is an urban-type settlement on the banks of the Seversky Donets River in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Population: 13,734 (2013 est.)[2]. Stanytsia Luhanska is one of two local foundations of the Don Cossacks in today's Ukraine and the administrative center of the Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion 20 km northeast of Luhansk.

Stanytsia Luhanska Станиця Луганська
Urban-type settlement
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Stanytsia Luhanska Location of Stanytsia Luhanska within Ukraine
Coordinates: 48°40′14″N 39°28′20″E
Country	Ukraine
Province	Luhansk Oblast
Founded	1688
Area
• Total	14.6 km2 (5.6 sq mi)
Elevation	40 m (130 ft)
Population  (01.01.2011)[1]
• Total	13,744
• Density	940/km2 (2,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	93600-93609
Area code	+380 6472

Starting Mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in Donetsk Oblast;[3][4] including Stanytsia Luhanska.[5]

On 2 July 2014 unspecified planes attacked the village and the village of Kondrashovka.[6] The Ukrainian army denied the airstrike and blamed the damage on faulty shelling by the separatists.[7] There is also a version that the air strike was caused by a Russian aircraft in order to discredit the Ukrainian army by accusing it of bombing residential areas.[8]

On 21 August 2014, Ukrainian forces reportedly were clearing Stanytsia Luhanska from the pro-Russian separatists.[9] The settlement remained under control of the Ukrainian authorities.[10] It became situated on the frontline with forces representing the Luhansk People's Republic and became regularly the victim of shelling.[11] An early 2017 agreement between the Ukrainian army and the separatist forces of the war in Donbass on the disengagement of forces in Stanytsia Luhanska failed to materialise.[11][12]