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Toretsk (Russian: Торецк) is an industrial city in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Toretsk urban hromada . As of January 2022, its population was approximately 30,914.
Toretsk urban hromada (Ukrainian: Торецька міська громада) is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast. Its administrative center is the city Toretsk. [1] It has an area of 67.5 square kilometres (26.1 sq mi) and a population of 66,369, as of 2020. [2]
The battle of Toretsk is an ongoing engagement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine between the Russian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of Ukraine for control of the city of Toretsk and the settlements in the surrounding area, [a] beginning on 18 June 2024.
On 18 June, Russia launched a new offensive towards the city of Toretsk, [331] and by 21 June had captured a village east of it, Shumy. [332] [333] Fighting began in the satellite settlements east of Toretsk of Pivdenne, Zalizne, Druzhba, and Pivnichne, and by the end of June Russian forces had a foothold in all of these settlements.
On 21 July 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian shelling killed two children and injured a woman in the settlement. [2]As part of a renewed effort to capture Donetsk Oblast, the Russian Armed Forces gained a foothold within Druzhba as well as other satellite settlements of Toretsk and the Niu-York urban area, as geolocated footage by DeepState confirmed.
As part of a renewed effort to capture the Toretsk area, the Russian Armed Forces gained a foothold near Pivdenne as well as other satellite settlements of Toretsk and the New York urban area in June–July 2024, and by the end of July had captured most of the settlement. [9] [10] [11] Russia claimed to have seized the entire settlement on 30 ...
On 11 October 2018, during the War in Donbas, an OSCE Special Monitoring Mission patrol drone recorded an armored reconnaissance vehicle close to the village. [2]On 21 September 2024, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the battle of Toretsk, Russian forces entered the village. [3]
English: Residential building in Pivnichne settlement near Toretsk (Donetsk region of Ukraine), damaged by Russian shelling. December 2023. December 2023. Stele in the right is devoted to Yuzhnaya (Southern) coal mine ( photo ).