Popasna (Ukrainian: Попасна; Russian: Попасная, romanized: Popasnaya) is a city in Sievierodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.

[3][4] Popasna was founded in the late 1870s as a stop on the newly constructed railway connecting the Donbas with industrial centers in more northern parts of what was then the Russian Empire.

[14] On 19 June 2014, during the early stages of the war in Donbas, Ukrainian forces reportedly secured Popasna from pro-Russian separatists.

[26] By March 2015, the city only had two stores with some basic products and one pharmacy and residents received food distribution through a volunteer organization.

[27] Residents also complained about having to pay for public utilities and for having been cut off from social benefits supplied by the Ukrainian government.

[29] On 7 May 2022, Haidai confirmed that Ukrainian troops were forced to retreat from the city of Popasna to take up more fortified positions, adding "everything was destroyed there".

[31] Photographic evidence supplied by the governor of Luhansk Oblast has revealed that Russian forces had beheaded and dismembered a Ukrainian soldier and displayed his body parts stuck on poles in the captured city.

[35] In December 2022 Russian forces were reported to have constructed multiple lines of defence to the West of Popasna to blunt any Ukrainian attacks.

[36] Popasna's status as an independent city was abolished in March 2023 by the Russian occupation authorities due to the extent of the destruction.