Zaitseve (Ukrainian: Зайцеве; Russian: Зайцево) is a village in Bakhmut Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, at about 60.3 kilometres (37.5 mi) northeast by north (NEbN) from of the centre of Donetsk city, about 4.1 kilometres (2.5 mi) southwards from the southern border of Bakhmut.

It belongs to Bakhmut urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

The settlement came under attack and was captured by Russian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

[2][3] As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, the settlement had 1,160 inhabitants, whose native languages were 91.65% Ukrainian and 8.26% Russian.

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