Liubymivka, Beryslav Raion, Kherson Oblast

Village in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine

Liubymivka Любимівка
Village
47°23′34″N 33°43′00″E / 47.392778°N 33.716667°E / 47.392778; 33.716667
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kherson Oblast
Raion	Beryslav Raion
Founded	1921
Area
• Total	199 km² (77 sq mi)
Elevation	79 m (259 ft)
Population (2001 census)^[1]
• Total	1,695
• Density	8.5/km² (22/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	74212
Area code	+380 5533

Liubymivka (Ukrainian: Любимівка; Russian: Любимовка) is a village in Beryslav Raion (district) in Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine, at about 118.9 kilometres (73.9 mi) northeast of the centre of Kherson city. It belongs to Novovorontsovka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

The village came under attack by Russian forces in 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and was regained by Ukrainian forces by the beginning of October the same year.^[2]

Demographics

The settlement had 1965 inhabitants in 2001, native language distribution as of the Ukrainian Census of the same year:^[1]

Ukrainian: 96.46%
Russian: 2.54%
Armenian: 0.47%
Moldovan (Romanian): 0.29%
Belarusian: 0.12%

References

^ ^a ^b "Офіційна сторінка Всеукраїнського перепису населення | Банк даних" [All-Ukrainian population census | Database]. ukrcensus.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ Kateryna Stepanenko; Frederick W. Kagan (2 October 2022). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 2". understandingwar.org. ISW. Retrieved 23 October 2022. Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces also liberated Shevchekivka and Lyubymivka, pushing Russian forces to new defensive positions around Mykailivka.