Klishchiivka Кліщіївка | |
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_1.jpg) Church of the Intercession, September 2021 | |
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  Klishchiivka Location of Klishchiivka in Donetsk Oblast Show map of Donetsk Oblast Klishchiivka Klishchiivka (Ukraine) Show map of Ukraine | |
| Coordinates:48°31′41″N37°57′30″E / 48.528056°N 37.958333°E /48.528056; 37.958333 | |
| Country |  Ukraine |
| Oblast | Donetsk Oblast |
| Raion | Bakhmut Raion |
| Hromada | Bakhmut urban hromada |
| Status | 1945 |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.746 km2 (1.060 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 153 m (502 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 512 |
| • Density | 186/km2 (483/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 84557 |
| Area code | +380 6274 |
| KATOTTH | UA14040070030010923 |
Klishchiivka,[a] known asKarlivka until 1945, is anabandoned village inBakhmut Raion,Donetsk Oblast, easternUkraine.[2] It is located about 57.61 kilometres (35.80 mi) north by east (NbE) of the centre ofDonetsk and about 7.91 kilometres (4.92 mi) south-southwest (SSW) ofBakhmut, it also belongs toBakhmut urban hromada.[3] It has been a frontline village since the beginning of thebattle of Bakhmut during theRusso-Ukraine War.[4][5] By 2024, the village's population had fled, and virtually every building had been destroyed.
In 1841, the village's Church of the Intercession was built.[6] The village was previously namedKarlivka (Ukrainian:Карлівка) until it received its current name on 15 August 1945.[7]
On 29 June 2015, during theWar in Donbas (2014–2022),Dmytro Borysovych Ponomarenko [uk], a senior soldier of the "Chernihiv-1" battalion, was fatally wounded at a checkpoint near the village.[8]
Fighting over the village started on 29 November 2022 as part of thebattle of Bakhmut of theRussian invasion of Ukraine.[9] The settlement was captured byRussian forces on 19 January 2023.[10][11][12] Followingcounterattacks around Bakhmut, battles for the village resumed asUkrainian forces reentered it on 23 July 2023.[13] At the end of August, 45th Separate Artillery Brigade destroyed two Russian infantry fighting vehicles and a tank near the bridge crossing trying to advance in Klishchiivka.[14]
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On 5 September the fighters of theTsunami Regiment of theLyut Brigade attacked Russian positions in the center of the village.[15] Two days later, the3rd Assault Brigade advanced through the forest north-west of the village establishing fire control over the passage near the destroyed bridge by cutting out the Russian supply route fromBakhmut.[16] Russian troops were able to hold only the north-eastern outskirts of the village, about 400 meters from the railway tracks.[17] On 17 September, it was announced that troops of the80th Air Assault Brigade,5th Assault Brigade,95th Air Assault Brigade, and theLyut Brigade participated in the liberation of the settlement.[18][19][20]
On 21 May 2024, theInstitute for the Study of War said that despite Russian claims of fully recapturing the settlement, it had "not observed visual evidence indicating that Russian forces seized northern and western Klishchiivka".[21] On 22 May, the Russian defense ministry claimed: "Units of the Southern grouping of troops liberated the village of Klishchiivka".[22] The ISW confirmed the capture on 17 June.[23]
2024 satellite imagery shows the entire village being razed to the ground, with not a single structure left standing. The entire population has been evacuated.
The settlement had 512 inhabitants in 2001. Thenative language distribution according to the2001 Ukrainian Census was: 84.96%Ukrainian, 14.65%Russian, and 0.39% other.[24]
Multiple Russian milbloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces drove through the Russian defensive lines south and southwest of Ivanivske (6km west of Bakhmut) and northwest of Klishchiivka (6km southwest of Bakhmut) from the northwest.
The UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) assessed that Ukrainian forces had secured Klishchiivka (7km southwest of Bakhmut) and Andriivka (10km southwest of Bakhmut), while Russian forces still control the railway line located between Klishchiivka and the T0513 highway to the east of the settlement.
ISW had not observed visual evidence indicating that Russian forces seized northern and western Klishchiivka, however.
Geolocated footage published on June 17 indicates that Russian forces recently advanced southwest of Klishchiivka (southeast of Chasiv Yar).
