After becoming part of independent Ukraine in 1991, the town was taken over by the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), a Russian puppet state, in August 2014.

[2] According to official Soviet sources, by the time immediately preceding World War I, most inhabitants of the village were illiterate, especially the non-Germans.

The Bolsheviks went on to win the entire civil war, and established the communist Soviet Union on much of the territory of the former Russian Empire.

[5] In 1999, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) opened a "House of Mercy" in Telmanove, for treating the elderly and disabled.

[9] The settlement is still occasionally referred to by the old name "Telmanove" by Russian government-affiliated sources and even by Ukrainian government officials in less formal contexts.

In an announcement from 29 August, Jehovah’s Witnesses representatives reported that Boikivske was one of the settlements in which separatist authorities had seized their buildings.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom reported that, in October and November 2018, after the complete banning of Jehovah's Witnesses by the DPR, DPR police in Boikivske had warned local Jehovah's Witnesses during home visits about the ban on their activity and collected signatures as acknowledgement.

UOC-KP Bishop of Donetsk and Mariupol Sergius (Horobtsov) [uk] said there was "constant persecution, insults and intimidation of all our priests.

Representatives of the DPR as well as the Luhansk People's Republic protested this use, claiming it violated the clause in the Minsk agreements banning the use of foreign unmanned aerial vehicles along the contact line.

[16] On 12 November 2023, during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the advisor to the exiled mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andriushchenko, announced that Ukrainian forces had successfully struck a Russian headquarters in Telmanove, metaphorically stating that Ukrainian forces "surgically entered the building of the former House of Culture and nearby, where the operational headquarters of the occupiers was located.