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There were 490 raions in 24 oblasts and the Crimea autonomous republic of Ukraine. The number of raions per region (oblast and autonomous republic) varies between 11 and over 20. The average area of a Ukrainian raion before the reform was 1,200 km 2 (463 sq mi). The average population was 52,000.
A raion (Ukrainian: район, romanized: raion; pl. райони, raiony), often translated as district, is the second-level administrative division in Ukraine. Raions were created in a 1922 administrative reform of the Soviet Union , to which Ukraine, as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , belonged.
The operation, filmed by Reuters on condition the location was not disclosed, was one small part of a complex game of cat and mouse drone warfare being played out along front lines stretching some ...
Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas War. These first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents and cyberwarfare .
Synkivka (Ukrainian: Синьківка, Russian: Синьковка, romanized: Sinkovka) is a village in Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.During the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the village was captured by Russian forces in their initial advance into the nation.
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city . The word is from the French rayon (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), [ 1 ] and is commonly translated as ' district ' in English.
Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall, nearly killed by Russian bombs while reporting in Ukraine less than two years ago, returned to the country this week to interview Ukrainian President ...
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vodiane's status remained contested as skirmishes and battles commenced in the village's surrounding areas, particularly in the zone west of Avdiivka. By 3 April 2024, most of the village had been captured by Russian forces, with only the extreme western portion near Pervomaiske being still contested.