Dorozhnianka
Dorozhnianka (, ) is a village in southern Ukraine. Administratively, it is located in Huliaipole urban hromada, Polohy Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. It has a population of 327. On the southern outskirts of the village, there is a nature reserve, . History During the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 15 May 2022, according to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, Russian forces completely cut off the village's transport routes, blowing up the highways to Polohy and Huliaipole with mines. The depth of the explosion craters reportedly was . On 17 August 2023, during the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russian sources claimed that a Ukrainian reconnaissance-in-force had reached the village. Demographics According to the 1989 Soviet census, the settlement had 364 people, of whom 164 were men and 200 women. By the time of the 2001 census in independent Ukraine, that number had shrunk to 327. Their languages were 92.77% Ukrainian, 6.63% Russian, and 0.6% other languages. References Villages in Polohy Raion 1922 establishments in Ukraine