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Khartsyzk
Khartsyzk or Khartsyzsk is an industrial city in Donetsk Oblast ( province) of Ukraine. It is administratively incorporated as city of oblast significance. Population: ; 64,175 (2001).
Starting Mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists took control of several towns in Donetsk Oblast. Unknown armed men took control of Khartsyzk city hall on 13 April 2014 and declared it to be part of the Donetsk People's Republic. Since then the city is controlled by this unrecognized state. A pro-Ukrainian unity rally was held in the town on 22 April 2014. One of the few pro-Ukraine unity rallies at that time in the region.