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Stepanivka (Ukrainian: Степанівка), in Ukraine, is the site of an ancient settlement dating to 5000 - 4300 B.C. belonging to the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture. The settlement was for the time large, covering an area of 15 hectares. This proto-city are just one of 2440 Cucuteni-Trypillia settlements discovered so far in Moldova and Ukraine. 194 (8%) of these settlements had an area of more than 10 hectares between 5000 - 2700 B.C. and more than 29 settlements had an area in the range 100 - 300 - 450 Hectares.[1]

The site is near the (modern village) Stepanivka (Perevalskyi Raion) in Luhansk Oblast.[2] On 28 July 2014, Ukrainian forces reportedly secured this village from pro-Russian separatists.[3] Starting in mid-April 2014, pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in Luhansk Oblast.[4][5] On 14 August 2014 the Ukrainian military lost control of Stepanivka to the Luhansk People's Republic.[6][7] According to a soldier of the Ukrainian 8th Army Corps the Luhansk People's Republic were able to do this assisted by armored units of the Russian Armed Forces.[7]

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References

  1. ↑ Mykhaylo Videiko. "VIDEIKO M. YU. TRYPILLIA CULTURE PROTO-CITIES: AFTER 40 YEARS OF INVESTIGATIONS".
  2. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Not for long - several hundred years. Evidence of this is ... LuHansk pyramids, Ukrayina Moloda (31 August 2006)
  3. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Force ATO released Stepanivka, Ukrayinska Pravda (28 July 2014)
  4. ↑ Leonid Ragozin (16 April 2014). "Putin Is Accidentally Helping Unite Eastern and Western Ukraine - New Republic". New Republic.
  5. ↑ "TASS: World - Donbass defenders put WWII tank back into service". TASS.
  6. ↑ "If I went to the side of the enemy, you would know about it from Russian television - Colonel Bezyazikov" (in Ukrainian). Radio Svoboda. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
  7. 1 2 "Cabinet of Ministers called the cities of Donbass controlled by the separatists". korrespondent.net. Retrieved 2015-10-08.
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