Ilovaisk
Proper noun
Meaning
Ilovaisk
A city in eastern Ukraine, in Donetsk oblast.
Examples
One of first Ukraine’s volunteer battalions, which included many residents of Donetsk Oblast, the Donbas Battalion took especially heavy losses in Ilovaisk.
Some 30 soldiers were taken captive, and 15 soldiers are still believed to be missing after Ilovaisk.
Their attempts to enter the city through the village of Vynohradne to the east of Ilovaisk are repulsed by strong counter attacks by Russian-led forces.
The well-known Oplot and Vostok (Russian proxy units) didn’t participate in fighting for Ilovaisk – it was mostly the Russian Cossack formations that fought there.
They had been ordered to hold this strategic position for just a few days, preventing Russian-led forces in Ilovaisk from getting reinforcement from their strongholds in Khartsyzsk and Donetsk.