Bahatyr

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On 30 August 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine the Russian military shelled the village using the S-300 missile system, killing two civilians and wounding seven.^[1][2] On 12 October 2023, the Russians again shelled the village using the Smerch missile system, killing one child and injuring another child and a woman.^[3] The settlement allegedly was captured by Russia on 17 May 2025.^[4] The capture of the village by the Russian army was definitively confirmed on 29 June, after two long weeks of fighting.^[5]

According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the village had a population of 1695 people. In terms of native language, 7.61% of them spoke Ukrainian, 90.97% spoke Russian and 1.18% spoke Greek (including Mariupol Greek and Urum^[6]).^[7]