368:". When he refused, they took him into custody, angering the locals, who attempted to block off the exits to the village to keep their leader with them. Zakharevych told the locals to back down to avoid a violent confrontation, and he was taken to Prymorsk. There, he was pressured and threatened for hours, before being sent to a jail cell, where he was threatened with torture. Eventually, along with
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348:. Stanislav Zakharevych, the democratically elected head of the hromada, was allowed to maintain his position. This made him unique among the hromada leaders of Berdiansk Raion. All others had been replaced by Russia-installed collaborationists. The Russians set up a checkpoint in mid-March 2022. The hromada took in refugees from
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Stanislav
Zakharevych, current head of the hromada, has said that before the creation of the hromada, the villages that are now in the hromada were not very united or communal with each other. They had been divided into six village councils. Zakharevych said that previously, "several villages with a
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In the occupation administration, the officials apparently "got completely confused in the local administrative system". In the
Russian documents, there are references to a "Kolarivka amalgamated hromada" and a "Zelenivka amalgamated hromada", both with their center in Sofiivka (referred to as
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The first election in
Kolarivka rural hromada was held on 25 October 2020. In January 2021, Serhiy Trofymenko, then-head of the hromada, died in the hospital after a vehicle accident. Elections were held later that year, with Stanislav Zakharevych, who had previously been offered a government
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1,145.13. The hromada had high amounts of growth in the year before the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, becoming the hromada with the third-highest income growth in Zaporizhzhia Oblast by the beginning of 2022. It was also the third-highest in terms of funds raised for the budget, only behind
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beginning 26 February 2022. Some residents welcomed the invaders, but most shut themselves in their houses. In the early days of the occupation, the
Russians shot two civilian cars from the hromada, killing one civilian and injuring two others. Some members of the hromada waged
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The hromada has a population of diverse ethnic backgrounds. There are villages where the population is mainly
Ukrainian, others where the people are predominantly of Bulgarian background, and others with diverse populations themselves.
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The economy has crashed in the economy, with little work available. The occupiers refuse to pay actual wages, instead paying in "fake money" or promising to pay little. There is also constant repressions and human rights abuses.
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Speaking to media in March 2023, Zakharevych estimated that about 40% of the hromada's population had fled. He praised the hromada's people as "patriotic", because "almost no one in it wants to cooperate with the 'liberators'".
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against the occupation, torching unattended
Russian military vehicles in the night. However, the Russians mostly ignored what was happening in the area, mainly passing through on the highway that led to the city
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Russian forces. Reportedly, the occupiers mocked and degraded the Mariupolitans that arrived, asking them why they had fled their city and promising that Zaporizhzhia would become "a second Mariupol".
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The hromada had a population of 5,600, as of 2020. However, by late 2021, the population had dropped to around 4,700 people. The exact number of remaining residents is unknown.
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It has an area of 418.6 square kilometres (161.6 sq mi). The hromada contains 11 settlements, including 9 villages:
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574:Syniak, Dmytro (3 March 2023).
1234:2020 establishments in Ukraine
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647:Decentralization in Ukraine
450:List of hromadas of Ukraine
328:Russian invasion of Ukraine
322:Russian invasion of Ukraine
182:Коларівська селищна громада
26:Коларівська селищна громада
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292:Kolarivka rural hromada
174:Kolarivka rural hromada
928:Mykhailivka settlement
422:Prymorsk urban hromada
326:During the full-scale
215:Composition and extent
170:Sofiivka rural hromada
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137:13/km (35/sq mi)
103:Stanislav Zakharevych
134: • Density
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863:Kamianka-Dniprovska
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354:a destructive siege
341:partisan resistance
198:Zaporizhzhia Oblast
65:Zaporizhzhia Oblast
933:Mykhailo-Lukasheve
643:"Prymorskyi raion"
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209:occupied by Russia
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833:Dniprorudne
823:Chernihivka
142:Settlements
1223:Categories
1171:Molochansk
1156:Huliaipole
1013:Pryazovske
998:Plodorodne
918:Molochansk
853:Huliaipole
678:2023-12-06
653:2023-12-06
628:2023-12-07
607:2023-12-06
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537:2023-09-14
507:References
245:Yelyseivka
121:Population
95:Government
1201:Vilniansk
1196:Vasylivka
1166:Melitopol
1151:Enerhodar
1141:Berdiansk
1118:Yakymivka
1098:Vilniansk
1083:Vasylivka
1073:Terpinnia
1068:Ternuvate
1063:Tavriiske
1033:Semenivka
988:Pavlivske
913:Melitopol
908:Matviivka
903:Malynivka
888:Kyrylivka
848:Fedorivka
843:Enerhodar
808:Berestove
803:Berdiansk
793:Andriivka
770:Vasylivka
760:Melitopol
755:Berdiansk
595:Kitsoft.
490:‹See Tfd›
470:‹See Tfd›
370:Melitopol
296:Kolarivka
277:Bulgarian
273:Ukrainian
252:Zelenivka
236:Radolivka
178:Ukrainian
1186:Prymorsk
1048:Sofiivka
1043:Smyrnove
1018:Prymorsk
983:Osypenko
883:Kushuhum
858:Kamianka
838:Dolynske
828:Chkalove
798:Andrivka
785:Hromadas
444:See also
366:Prymorsk
350:Mariupol
332:occupied
300:Bolharka
266:Founding
240:Sofiivka
233:Pidhirne
230:Nelhivka
227:Hiunivka
202:Sofiivka
184:), is a
153:Villages
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1176:Orikhiv
1103:Vodiane
1038:Shyroke
1028:Rozivka
978:Orikhiv
813:Bilenke
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474:Russian
403:Economy
397:bavovna
334:by the
261:History
249:Yurivka
190:Ukraine
186:hromada
54:Ukraine
42:Country
34:Hromada
1191:Tokmak
1181:Polohy
1133:Cities
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1078:Tokmak
1053:Stepne
1023:Rozdol
1003:Polohy
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372:mayor
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