Dobropillia

History

A local newspaper is published here since February 1935.

During the Second World War, the settlement was occupied by Axis troops. It became a city in 1953. In 1970, the population of the city was 30 thousand people, the basis of the economy was coal mining.

Dobropillia was one of the first towns shelled by Russia using "Grad" MLRS on 13 June 2014, with one civilian killed.

On the night of 7 March 2025, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army attacked a residential district between Shevchenko and Luhanska streets with ballistic missiles. A double-tap attack with cluster munitions happened shortly after the first one with 11 killed and 30 wounded initially confirmed.

In July 2025, a Russian air strike on a shopping center in the town killed at least two people and injured several others. An FAB-type 500-kg bomb was used in the attack, affecting 54 retail outlets, 304 apartments, and eight vehicles. Dobropillia was about 15 kilometers from the front line at the time.

By 11 August, Russian forces in the Pokrovsk sector had launched an offensive towards the Dobropillia–Kramatorsk highway.

Demographics

As of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:

;Ethnicity

• Ukrainians: 71.3%
• Russians: 25.9%
• Belarusians: 1.1%
• Tatars: 0.4%
• Greeks: 0.2%

;Language:

• Russian: 61.0%
• Ukrainian: 38.5%
• Belarusian: 0.1%

Notable people

• Art Bezrukavenko (born 1996), content creator and social media personality

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