Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion
Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion is a raion in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. the administrative center of the raion is the urban-type settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska. Population:.
On July 2, 2014, this town and Mykolaivka were badly hit; nine civilians were killed. The Ukrainian authorities said the bloodshed happened when rebel forces launched rockets from a Grad rocket launcher; the Grad was later seized by government forces. A resident of the Kondrashovka locality said that an aircraft first targeted an insurgent position nearby, but that its second strike hit the village. The deputy commander of a Ukrainian battalion said the place may have been hit both by the aircraft and by shelling from outside.Demographics
As of the 2001 Ukrainian Census:
;Ethnicity
- Russians: 61.1%
- Ukrainians: 36.5%
- Belarusians: 0.6%
;Language
- Russian: 85.1%
- Ukrainian: 14.2%
- Armenian: 0.2%
- Belarusian: 0.1%
- Romani: 0.1%
