[1] Reni is located in the Bessarabian historic district of Budjak and on the left bank of the Danube.

[2] There are six schools, one filial branch of the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, and three Ukrainian Orthodox church buildings.

Similar attacks targeted the nearby ports of Izmail and Kiliia, all laying on the Danube.

The government of the neighbouring country allowed numerous ships to immediately cross the border.

[14] In 1897, the ethnic make-up, by mother tongue, was 37.6% Moldovan/Romanian, 19.8% Ukrainian, 17.1% Russian, 10.5% Jewish, 9.4% Bulgarian, 2.0% Greek, 1.5% Turkish, 1.1% Polish.