Amvrosiivka or Amvrosievka (Ukrainian: Амвросіївка, IPA: [ɐmˈwrɔ.s⁽ʲ⁾i.jiu̯.kɐ] ⓘ; Russian: Амвросиевка) is a city in Donetsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine; residence of Amvrosiivka urban hromada.
[2] It was first founded in 1869 as a train station settlement on the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov Railway, and it received city status in 1938.
[4] By 2020, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine estimated the population has decreased to 18,047 (2021 est.).
[5] With the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War, on 15 July 2014, two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and eight wounded when Amvrosiivka was hit by several "Grad" rockets.
[citation needed] On 24 August 2014, the city was occupied by Russian paratroopers,[6] supported by 250 armoured vehicles and artillery pieces.