Zaitseve (Ukrainian: Зайцеве; Russian: Зайцево, romanized: Zaytsevo) is a rural settlement in Bakhmut Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine.

[1] Pro-Russian forces took the settlement under their control in the beginning of the War in Donbass, in 2014.

[5][6][7][8][9] The settlement is located near the frontline between Ukrainian forces and the separatist Donetsk People's Republic in the war in Donbass.

On February 21, 2022, pro-Russian rebels shelled the town, killing two soldiers.

[15] Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[16] Media related to Zaytsevo (Bakhmut Raion) at Wikimedia Commons