Sakko i Vantsetti

Sakko i Vantsetti (Ukrainian: Са́кко і Ванце́тті; Russian: Са́кко и Ванце́тти) transl. Sacco and Vanzetti is a hamlet in Bakhmut Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine.

This article is about the hamlet in Ukraine. For other uses, see Sacco and Vanzetti (disambiguation).

Sakko i Vantsetti
Сакко і Ванцетті
Hamlet
Sakko i Vantsetti is located in Donetsk Oblast
Sakko i Vantsetti
Sakko i Vantsetti
Location of Sakko I Vantsetti
Sakko i Vantsetti is located in Ukraine
Sakko i Vantsetti
Sakko i Vantsetti
Sakko i Vantsetti (Ukraine)
Coordinates: 48°44′46″N 38°01′54″E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Donetsk Oblast
Raion Bakhmut Raion
HromadaSoledar urban hromada
Elevation
77 m (253 ft)
Population
 (2001 census)
 • Total3
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
84530
Area code+380 6274

The hamlet is named after the Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were controversially convicted of murdering a paymaster and a security guard at a shoe factory in the United States, executed in 1927 and rehabilitated in 1977 by Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.[1] Soviet propaganda celebrated Sacco and Vanzetti as unjustly accused proletarians and revolutionaries.[2]

History

Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 1, 2023, Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed his Wagner Group paramilitary fighters had captured the hamlet, posting a photograph purporting to show four of his soldiers posing in front of "the only surviving house in Sakko i Vantsetti.", despite there being no other buildings there previously to have been destroyed.[2][3] By the middle of May 2023, Russian forces were claimed to have retreated from the hamlet following local Ukrainian counterattacks.[4]

Demographics

The 1989 Census in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union recorded a total population of 19 in Sakko i Vantsetti, 12 men and 7 women.[5] The population declined by the time of the first independent Ukrainian Census of 2001, which recorded 3 inhabitants in the hamlet.[6]

References
  1. "Proclamation by the Governor" (1977), pp. 797–799; also included in Young and Kaiser, pp. 3–4, and Tropp, pp. 182–184.
  2. "Населення — 3 особи: Пригожин похвалився "взяттям" села на Донеччині (фото)" [Population — 3 people: Prigozhin boasted of "capturing" a hamlet in Donetsk region (photo)] (in Ukrainian). February 1, 2023. Archived from the original on February 1, 2023.
  3. "Сегодня, 1 февраля 2023 года, в 16.00, Сакко и Ванцетти было полностью взято под контроль штурмовыми подразделениями ЧВК «Вагнер». На фотографии - единственный уцелевший дом в Сакко и Ванцетти" [Today, February 1, 2023, at 16.00, Sakko I Vantsetti has been completely taken under control by the assault units of the Wagner PMCs. In the photo - the only standing house in Sakko I Vantsetti.] (in Russian). February 1, 2023.
  4. Grace Mappes; Kateryna Stepanenko; Nicole Wolkov; Layne Philipson; Frederick W. Kagan (May 18, 2023). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 18, 2023". understandingwar.org. ISW. Retrieved May 19, 2023. The milbloggers also claimed that Russian forces retreated from positions north of Sakko i Vantsetti (15km north of Bakhmut) to positions south of the settlement, but that Ukrainian forces have not yet entered the settlement.
  5. "19A0501_061_014. Number of actual and permanent population in rural areas, Donetska oblast (1,2,3,4), s. SAKKO I VANTSETTI". State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
  6. "19A0501_07_014. Number of actual population in rural areas, Donetska oblast (1,2,3,4), s. SAKKO I VANTSETTI". State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved February 1, 2023.


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