Novyi Bykiv

Novyi Bykiv (Ukrainian: Новий Биків, Russian: Новый Быков) is a village in Nizhyn Raion of Chernihiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine.

The list of Novy Bykov residents who died in the German-Soviet war, on the stele in the center of the village, includes 422 people.

[2][3] In 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the village was occupied from February 26 to March 31.

Russian military personnel committed a number of war crimes in the village: prohibition of people to move freely around the village, prohibition to bury the dead relatives in the cemetery, numerous cases of looting (robbery of shops and the population), destruction of housing and infrastructure (the school, hospital, kindergarten, filling station were destroyed or damaged), killing of at least three civilians, illegal capture of civilians.

[4][5][6][7][8][9] Victoria Andrusha (one of the two illegally captured persons) was released from captivity by exchange on September 29, 2022.