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Horlivka

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[hawr-liv-kuh, hawr-liv-kah] / hɔrˈlɪv kə, ˈhɔr lɪv kɑ /
  1. a city in southeastern Ukraine, north of Donetsk.


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We spent two weeks in August with the 24th, which now serves in the Donbas, that old centre of smokestack industries in the east, occupying a section of the front between Bakhmut and Horlivka.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2023

She also has a 16-year-old foster daughter she took in with her husband in 2016 from the occupied town of Horlivka, where hostilities with Russian-backed separatists began, years before the 2022 invasion.

From Washington Times • May 26, 2023

The 23-year-old is originally from Horlivka in the eastern Donetsk region.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2022

He was, however, born in Horlivka, Ukraine, and like Prokofiev and many other Ukrainian artists during the existence of the Soviet Union, wound up in Moscow.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2022

“It was actually really joyful,” said Vesyolkin, who fled Horlivka, a coal-mining city about 85 miles northeast of Hranitne, when it came under the control of the pro-Russian insurgents in 2014.

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2021

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