Zelena Dolyna
Village in Lyman hromada, Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, north of Lyman.
Zelena Dolyna, a village north of Lyman in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, was back in Ukrainian hands on 14 October 2026, DeepState recorded, four years after Ukrainian troops first freed it from Russian occupation.
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Zelena Dolyna is a village in the Lyman hromada of Kramatorsk Raion, in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, about 16 km north of Lyman. It had an estimated 89 residents in 2021.
Russian forces occupied it in April 2022. The Institute for the Study of War records Ukrainian troops freeing it by 28 September 2022, as they pushed on towards Lyman.
With 89 residents, Zelena Dolyna counts for its position. It lies on the northern approach to Lyman, a railway town Russia has claimed and Ukraine has held. On 14 October 2026 DeepState recorded Ukrainian forces retaking Zelena Dolyna once more.
Zelena Dolyna changes hands again
DeepState recorded Ukrainian forces retaking Zelena Dolyna on 14 October 2026, in the same push that returned Kolodiazi and Lypove. The village, about 16 km north of Lyman, had about 89 residents before the full-scale war, so its value lies in the ground it holds, not in its size.
It has changed hands before. Russian forces held it from April to September 2022, until Ukraine's advance on Lyman pushed them out. Two days after this month's gain, the Institute for the Study of War judged that Moscow had made a poor start to the fifth year of the war.
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