Marinka (Ukrainian: Мар'їнка, IPA: [ˈmɑrjinkɐ]; Russian: Марьинка, romanized: Maryinka) is an abandoned city in Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine.

[7] The area which is now Marinka was part of the Kalmius Palanka [uk; ru], an 18th-century administrative division of the Zaporizhian Sich.

[8] Former Ukrainian Cossacks and state serfs from various counties of the Poltava and Kharkov governorates[8] began moving in during the 1840s.

Having been locked up in the police station, the Jews of the city (and the surrounding villages) were killed in a mass execution by an Einsatzgruppe.

[9] Starting in mid-April 2014 Russian-backed paramilitaries captured several towns in Donetsk Oblast,[10][11] including Marinka.

[13] Ukrainian forces involved in the recapture included the Azov Battalion, whose flag flew in the city in early August.

[15] On 3 June 2015, violence returned to the area as pro-Russian combatants launched an offensive on the city involving 1,000 fighters, tanks and heavy artillery.

[5] Three people died close to a checkpoint on 10 February 2016 when a minibus while bypassing a queue drove roadside and hit a land mine.