Volnovakha

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Volnovakha Волноваха
City
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Coordinates: 47°36′08″N 37°29′31″E / 47.60222°N 37.49194°E / 47.60222; 37.49194
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Donetsk
Raion	Volnovakha
Hromada	Volnovakha urban
Founded	1881
City status	1938
Area
• Total	21 km2 (8 sq mi)
Elevation	271 m (889 ft)
Population  (2022)
• Total	21,166
Website	www.volnovaha.net (archive)

Volnovakha (Ukrainian and Russian: Волноваха, Ukrainian: [woɫnoˈwɑxɐ] ^ⓘ, Russian: [vəɫnɐˈvaxə]; Greek: Βολνοβάχα) is a city in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Volnovakha Raion within the oblast. As of January 2022, it had a population of 21,166.^[1][2]

The train station is a railway hub. It serves the only onshore rail line between Donetsk and Russia to the north-east and east, and Zaporizhzhia Oblast and Crimea to the west and south-west, and the only rail line south to Mariupol.

In February and March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many of its buildings were damaged or destroyed. The governor of the region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said that 90% of the city's critical infrastructure was destroyed.^[3]