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Vinnitsa

American  
[vin-it-suh, vyee-nyi-tsuh] / ˈvɪn ɪt sə, ˈvyi nyɪ tsə /

noun

  1. the Russian name of Vinnytsia.


Vinnitsa British  
/ ˈvinnitsə /

noun

  1. a city in central Ukraine: passed from Polish to Russian rule in 1793. Pop: 353 000 (2005 est)

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Blasts were also heard in central Ukraine in the regions of Vinnitsa, Khmelnitsky and Zhytomyr.

From BBC • May 17, 2023

The Vinnitsa photo came to represent something else, too – a reminder of how warily you must tread when you try to enlist the past, however good your intentions, and indeed however modest your enterprise.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2014

Isaac Shkolnik of Vinnitsa in the Ukraine was sentenced to ten years in a labor camp for "systematically" collecting "espionage material about the Soviet Union with a view to selling it to Israeli intelligence."

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, in the Swedish military journal Contact with the Army, Swedish Major Per Lindgren, a man well regarded as a Soviet analyst, pieced together the available evidence about Vinnitsa.

From Time Magazine Archive

The army marched through Vinnitsa and Litin to Hmelnik; on the way Vershul met a Tartar party in Saverovka, which he and Volodyovski destroyed, and freed a few hundred captives,--almost all young women.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

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