Verbove
Вербо́ве
Village
Flag of Verbove
Flag
Official seal of Verbove
Seal
Verbove is located in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Verbove
Verbove
Location of Verbove in Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Verbove is located in Ukraine
Verbove
Verbove
Verbove (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 47°25′36″N 35°59′49″E / 47.42667°N 35.99694°E / 47.42667; 35.99694
CountryUkraine
OblastZaporizhzhia Oblast
RaionPolohy
HromadaPolohy urban hromada
Founded1790
Area
 • Total8,462 km2 (3,267 sq mi)
Population
 (2001)[1]
 • Total1,238
 • Density0.15/km2 (0.38/sq mi)
Area code+380 6165

Verbove (Ukrainian: Вербо́ве, pronounced [werˈbɔwe]) is a village in Polohy Raion, in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast of southern Ukraine. It is administratively located in Polohy urban hromada. It had a population of 1,246 as of 2001. A small river, the Verbova, flows north-westward through the village and on to Orikhiv, where it joins the Konka river.

History

The village was founded in the 1790s[2] by migrants from the Poltava region.

As a result of the Holodomor, a manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s, 269 people in the village died.[3]

Russian invasion of Ukraine

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Verbove was occupied by Russian forces at the end of February 2022. In June 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces destroyed the "Mother in Sorrow" monument, which stood over a mass grave where 972 Red Army soldiers are buried.[4]

On 30 August 2023, during the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive, Ukrainian troops reached the northwestern outskirts of Verbove.[5] On 6 September, Ukrainian troops advanced along the line of Russian fortifications and entered the northwestern part of the village.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "All-Ukrainian population census". db.ukrcensus.gov.ua. State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  2. ↑ Князьков, Ю. (2004). Запорізька область. Запоріжжя: Тандем-У. p. 205. ...згадка про заснування села у 1790-ті рр. (... a mention that the village was founded in the 1790s)
  3. ↑ "Вербове". Геоінформаційна система місць «Голодомор 1932—1933 років в Україні». Ukrainian Institute of National Memory. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "«Русский мир» знищив у Запорізькій області пам'ятник на могилі, де похований Путін". Індустріалка. 25 June 2022. Archived from the original on 2 July 2022.
  5. ↑ Evans, Angelica; Stepanenko, Kateryna; Mappes, Grace; Harward, Christina; Kagan, Frederick W. "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 30, 2023". Institute for the Study of War. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  6. ↑ "Где заметнее всего продвигаются ВСУ и как россияне жалуются на потери и дефицит средств контрбатарейной борьбы — ISW" (in Ukrainian). Nv.ua. 6 September 2023.
  7. ↑ Nicole Wolkov; Angelica Evans; Christina Harward; Riley Bailey; Frederick W. Kagan (21 September 2023). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 21, 2023". understandingwar.org. ISW. Retrieved 23 September 2023. Geolocated footage published on September 20 indicates that Ukrainian forces advanced southwest and west of Verbove (18km southeast of Orikhiv).
  8. ↑ "В ВСУ сообщили о прорыве линии российской обороны у села Вербовое в Запорожской области" [The AFU reported a break of the Russian defence line near the village of Verbovoye in the Zaporizhzhia region]. dw.com (in Russian). DW. 23 September 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
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