Opytne, Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast

Starting Mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns and cities across in Donetsk and Luhansk Districts;[1][2] since 6 November 2014 Opytne was fully under Ukrainian control.[3] The village became one of the frontlines of the War in Donbass.[4] On 24 November 2016 one Ukrainian serviceman was killed by a sniper in the village.[5] In late 2019 less than 50 people lived in Opytne, while almost all of the village had been damaged or destroyed.[6] As of November 2021, only 38 remain.[7]

On November 11, 2022 as a result of battles with the 1st Semyonovsky Rifle Regiment, the 1st Slavyansk Brigade and the Sparta Battalion, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were pushed out of the village.[8] On September 8, 2023 during the Ukrainian counteroffensive, when the Russian forced were concentrating their efforts to the north of the Avdiivka in the Kamianka front,[9] Ukrainian 59th Motorized Brigade with 36th Marine Brigade's 501st Marine Battalion conducted a coordinated assault operation at Opytne. They entered the village from north, cleared Russian positions, entrenched themselves and liberated part of the settlement back to the Ukrainian control.[10] Russian troops were forced to retreat several kilometers south towards Donetsk airfield.[11] Five to six people still may live in the village.[12]

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