Zymohiria

Zymohiria
Зимогір'я
Zymohiria
Location of Zymohiria within Ukraine
Zymohiria
Zymohiria (Luhansk Oblast)
Coordinates: 48°34′55″N 38°55′55″E / 48.58194°N 38.93194°E / 48.58194; 38.93194
Country Ukraine
OblastLuhansk Oblast
RaionAlchevsk Raion
HromadaZymohiria urban hromada
Area
  Total
8.56 km2 (3.31 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)
  Total
9,557
  Density1,100/km2 (2,900/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
93742
Area code+380 6473
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Zymohiria (Ukrainian: Зимогір'я; Russian: Зимогорье) is a small city in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast (region) of Ukraine. Residence of Zymohiria urban hromada. Population: 9,557 (2022 estimate), 9,949(2013 est.).

Since 2014, Zymohiria has been under the occupation of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic.

On 27 June 2022, during a full-scale war, an ammunition depot of the occupation forces located in the village caught fire and then exploded. The day before, a similar fire at an ammunition depot occurred in the temporarily occupied Svatove and Khrustalne. Later it became known that the warehouse was hit by the Ukrainian military with high-precision rockets from HIMARS systems.