Obukhovychi (Ukrainian: Обуховичі) is a village (Ukrainian: село) in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast. It belongs to Ivankiv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]

History

Until 18 July 2020, Obukhovychi belonged to Ivankiv Raion. The raion was abolished that day as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Kyiv Oblast to seven. The area of Ivankiv Raion was merged into Vyshhorod Raion.[2][3]

2022 war

When the Russian army pulled out of the area near Ivankiv on 1 April, BBC found "clear evidence" of Russian troops using Ukrainian civilians as human shields in Obukhovychi, near Belarusian border. Multiple witnesses report that on 14 March the Russian soldiers went door-to-door, rounded about 150 civilians and locked them up in the local school, where they were used as protection for the Russian forces.[4]

Folk arts

A family of embroiderers and weavers Maria Posobchuk, Hanna Veres, Valentina Veres, Elena Veres worked here.

References

  1. ↑ "Иванковская громада". Gromada.info (in Russian). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  3. ↑ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  4. ↑ "Ukraine War: 'Russian soldiers held us as human shields'". BBC. 7 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.

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