Novopetrivka, Vysokopillia settlement hromada, Beryslav Raion, Kherson Oblast

Village in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine

Novopetrivka Новопетрівка
Village
47°25′46″N 33°28′06″E / 47.429444°N 33.468333°E / 47.429444; 33.468333
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Kherson Oblast
Raion	Beryslav Raion
Founded	1887
Area
• Total	18.22 km² (7.03 sq mi)
Elevation	71 m (233 ft)
Population (2001 census)^[1]
• Total	832
• Density	46/km² (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	74040
Area code	+380 5535

Novopetrivka (Ukrainian: Новопетрівка; Russian: Новопетровка) is a village in Beryslav Raion (district) in Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine, at about 109.4 kilometres (68.0 mi) northeast by north (NEbN) of the centre of Kherson city. It belongs to Vysokopillia settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

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

Demographics

The settlement had 832 inhabitants in 2001, native language distribution as of the Ukrainian Census of the same year:^[1]

Ukrainian: 96.29%
Russian: 3.59%
Moldovan (Romanian): 0.12%

References

^ ^a ^b "Офіційна сторінка Всеукраїнського перепису населення | Банк даних" [All-Ukrainian population census | Database]. ukrcensus.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 9 November 2022.
^ Kateryna Stepanenko; Karolina Hird; Katherine Lawlor; Riley Bailey; Grace Mappes; Frederick W. Kagan (4 October 2022). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 4". understandingwar.org. ISW. Retrieved 9 November 2022. Ukrainian forces continued to make substantial gains in northern Kherson Oblast on October 4. Geolocated footage shows Ukrainian troops in Velyka Oleksandrivka, Novopetrivka, and Starosillya, all in northwestern Kherson Oblast within 20km south of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast border.