Bohorodychne

Bohorodychne (Ukrainian: Богородичне; Russian: Богородичное, romanized: Bogordichnoye) is a village in Kramatorsk Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast of south-eastern Ukraine, at about 120 kilometres (75 mi) north-northwest from the centre of Donetsk city, on the right bank of the Siverskyi Donets river.

[1][2] On September 11, 2022, during the Kharkiv counteroffensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the village, after fighting for the settlement for more than three months.

[4] Tortured bodies of Ukrainian soldiers, were found decapitated, as well as dead local residents with their hands tied, in cellars, at the bottom of the pool.

[5] During the clearing of the village, the Ukrainian military discovered two local residents, 93-year-old Nina and her 60-year-old son Mykola, who managed to survive.

In 1981, the "Mother of Sorrows" monument, designed and built by Leonid Bryn [uk], was erected in the village.

Local church destroyed by the shelling from the Russian Armed Forces
Mother of Sorrows
Coat of arms of Kramatorsk Raion
Coat of arms of Kramatorsk Raion