City Detail

Sloviansk (Ukrainian: Слов'янськ, romanized: Sloviansk [slou̯ˈjɑnʲsʲk]; Russian: Славянск, romanized: Slavyansk [slɐˈvʲansk] or [ˈslavʲɪnsk]; prior to 1784 – Tor) is a city in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region of Ukraine, the administrative center of the Slovyansk urban community. The city lies in the north of the region, in the valley of the Kazennyi Torets river. As of July 2022, the population of the city was around 24,000.Sloviansk was one of the focal points in the early stages of the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine as it was the first city to be seized by Russia-backed military troops. It was retaken by Ukrainian forces in July 2014. Sloviansk has a population of 106,972 (2021 est.). On 4 July 2022, The Guardian reported that, after the fall of the Luhansk oblast, Russian invasion troops would continue their invasion into the adjacent Donetsk oblast to attack the cities of Sloviansk and Bakhmut.