Verbove (Ukrainian: Вербо́ве, pronounced [werˈbɔwe]) is a village in Polohy Raion, in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast of southern Ukraine.
[citation needed] As a result of the Holodomor, a manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s, 269 people in the village died.
[citation needed] In June 2022, Russian forces destroyed the Second World War monument "Mother in Sorrow", which stood over a mass grave in the village cemetery where 972 Red Army soldiers are buried.
[5] On 6 September, Ukrainian troops advanced along the line of Russian fortifications and entered the northwestern part of the village.
Ukrainian and Russian forces continue in small-scale engagements along the line of their positions between Verbove and Robotyne.