Verbove
Вербо́ве | |
---|---|
Coordinates: 47°25′36″N 35°59′49″E / 47.42667°N 35.99694°E | |
Country | Ukraine |
Oblast | Zaporizhzhia Oblast |
Raion | Polohy |
Hromada | Polohy urban hromada |
Founded | 1790 |
Area | |
• Total | 8,462 km2 (3,267 sq mi) |
Population (2001)[1] | |
• Total | 1,238 |
• Density | 0.15/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.
The village was founded in the 1790s[2] by migrants from the Poltava region.[citation needed]
As a result of the Holodomor, a manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s, 269 people in the village died.[3]
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Verbove was occupied by Russian forces at the end of February 2022.[citation needed] 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]