What is "kurakhove"

Kurakhove is a city in Marinka Raion of Donetsk Oblast ( province) of Ukraine. Population: ; 21,479 (2001). At Kurakhove, there is Kurakhove Power Station.

In Kurakhove the 11 May 2014 Donetsk Oblast independence referendum was conducted; but the city did not became part of the territory controlled by the Donetsk People's Republic (who held the referendum). Since then the city is 10 miles west of the frontlines of the War in Donbass.