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Battle of Trostianets | |||||||
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Part of the northern Ukraine offensive and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | |||||||
Destroyed Russian 2S19 Msta in the city center. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Russia Donetsk People's Republic | Ukraine | ||||||
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DPR Armed Forces | |||||||
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3+ soldiers killed, 10 soldiers captured | Unknown | ||||||
57+ civilians killed |
The battle of Trostianets was a military engagement during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The city of Trostianets, in Sumy Oblast, was attacked by Russian forces of the 1st Guards Tank Army in late February as part of the northern Ukraine offensive. Occupied for just over a month, it was re-captured by Ukrainian forces in late March.
Trostianets was attacked in the first hours of the invasion on 24 February. Ukrainian territorial defense forces felled trees on the main routes into town, which slowed but did not halt the advance of Russian troops. On February 25, Ukrainian troops blew up a bridge south of the city in the village of Klymentove, stopping the advance of Russian troops towards the city of Okhtyrka. On 27 February, Ukrainian forces allegedly destroyed Russian tanks attempting to capture Trostianets. The town's mayor, Yuriy Bova, hid in nearby villages, receiving some criticism for his decision not to stay in town, but continued to coordinate Ukrainian resistance, including shelling of Russian positions.
Russian troops moved through Trostianets to Okhtyrka, Sumy, Lebedyn and Hadiach. The city was captured by Russian forces on 1 March 2022. The Russian military headquarters was established at the town's main train station. Reports of executions of civilians by Russian troops began in early March. In mid-March, some Russian troops were replaced with Russian-supported separatist forces.
Approximately 800 Russian troops occupied the city. During the occupation, Ukrainian police officers remained in the city incognito, supporting both local civilians and partisan forces operating in the area.
A Ukrainian counter-offensive beginning on 23 March recaptured the city by 26 March. After combat and shelling around the outskirts of the city, Russian troops largely withdrew overnight before the arrival of Ukrainian forces. An AFP report recorded "a dozen" destroyed or damaged tanks and armored vehicles. The New York Times reported that food had grown scarce by the time the city was recaptured by Ukraine.
By order of the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, the territory of the Trostianets hromada was included in the list of territories of Ukraine where hostilities are ongoing or under the occupation of Russian troops from May 30, 2022.
On March 2, 2024, the HESA Shahed 136 was shot down over Trostianets, and residential buildings were damaged as a result of falling debris.
On March 14, 2024, Trostianets was shelled using the HESA Shahed 136 and 9K720 Iskander. As a result of the shelling, the Trostianets City Hospital was damaged.
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After the fighting ceased, regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyi stated that some parts of the town remained mined, and that inflows of humanitarian aid were being arranged. Mayor Bova stated that at least 50 civilians had been killed by Russian occupiers.
After the occupation of the city, seven civilians were killed and at least two wounded due to traps laid by Russian soldiers across the town.
During the fighting and shelling, the Krasnotrostyanets forest experimental station, located in the house of the manager of the estates of Leopold Koenig, was destroyed (an architectural monument of national importance). As a result of the fire, the chocolate factory "Ukraine" "Mondelēz International" (formerly "Kraft Foods") was partially destroyed. The estate of the Nadarzhinskys-Golitsyns, a monument in honor of the 183rd tank brigade, the Smorodino locomotive depot of 1877, and the shop of the merchant Fyodor Kurilo (1908, an architectural monument of local importance) were damaged.
During the fighting, the town's hospital was shelled many times by Russian forces (at least twice from tanks). One of these tanks was destroyed, another one was kept in the yard by a local resident for more than a year after the battle. Then the tank was seized and handed over to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.