Konotop (Ukrainian: Конотоп, IPA: [konoˈtɔp] ⓘ) is a city in Sumy Oblast, northeastern Ukraine.

[3] Konotop is a common Slavic toponym; settlements with this name exist not only in Ukraine, but also in Poland, Belarus and Russia.

The surface is a lowland loess plain which is flat, gently undulating, and dissected by passage valleys, ravines, and gullies.

Another hypothesis is that the name of the city originated from the name of the ancient Warmian knyaz (князь) Christopher of Kononowitz of the noble Polish-Belarusian-Lithuanian family Kononowicz-Piłsudski which exists to this day and uses the Polish coat of arms of Radwan.

[7] The name "Konotop" would then mean “the place of Kono(nowitz)” from adjoining the suffix topos (cf.

In 1659 the Battle of Konotop took place near the city, in which Cossacks led by Ivan Vyhovsky (allied with Poles and Crimean Tatars) defeated Muscovite forces.

[13] An agreement was reached under which Russian forces accepted not to change the city's government or deploy troops, in return for which the residents would not attack them.

[14] On 3 April, Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Kachura stated on Twitter that all Russian forces had left Konotop Raion.

[15] On 4 April 2022 Sumy Oblast's Governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyi stated that Russian troops no longer occupied any towns or villages in Sumy Oblast and had mostly withdrawn, while Ukrainian troops were working to push out the remaining units.