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Izium

Also known as Izyum

Izium is a city in Kharkiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine, on the Siverskyi Donets river. Founded as a fortress on Muscovy's southern frontier in the 1680s, it became the seat of one of the five Cossack regiments of Sloboda Ukraine. Russian forces occupied the heavily damaged city from April to September 2022, after which mass graves were found there.

Izium
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Sloboda Ukraine

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Izium. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/izium
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