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Bakhmut (Бахмут)
Bakhmut, formerly Artemivsk, is a city in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, founded as a Cossack salt settlement and reduced to rubble in the 2022–2023 battle.
Barysaw
Barysaw (Барысаў, Borisov) is a city of about 140,000 in Minsk Region, Belarus, on the Berezina River 74 km northeast of Minsk; founded 1102, site of the 1812 Berezina crossing, with a Dfb climate.
Berdiansk (Бердянськ)
Berdiansk, also spelled Berdyansk, is a port city on the Sea of Azov in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1827 as a grain-exporting seaport and a seaside resort.
Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Oblast
Bila Tserkva (Біла Церква), city on the Ros River in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, about 80 km south of Kyiv; founded as Yuriiev in 1032, home to the Oleksandriia dendrological park, population roughly 200,000.
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Білгород-Дністровський), also historically Akkerman and Cetatea Albă, is a Ukrainian city in Odesa Oblast on the Dniester Liman, built on ancient Greek Tyras and known for the 9-hectare Akkerman Fortress on UNESCO's tentative list.
Bobruysk
Bobruysk (Бабруйск, Бобруйск) is a city of oblast subordination in Mogilev Region, Belarus, on the Berezina River; first mentioned 1387, fortress town of 1812, major Jewish shtetl, industrial center home to the Belshina tire works.
Brody (Броди)
Brody (Броди) is a city in Lviv oblast, Ukraine, near the Galychyna-Volyn-Podillia junction: Koniecpolski fortress town (1629), Austrian free-trade town 1779-1880, once Galicia's most Jewish city, destroyed Jewish community in the Holocaust.
Cherkasy
Cherkasy (Черкаси), city in central Ukraine, administrative center of Cherkasy Oblast on the right bank of the Dnipro; about 265,000 residents, industrial economy, founded in the 13th century, oblast center since 1954.
Chernihiv (Чернігів)
Chernihiv (Чернігів), also known as Chernigov, is a city in northern Ukraine and the capital of Chernihiv oblast, about 140 km north of Kyiv on the Desna River.
Chernivtsi (Чернівці)
Chernivtsi (Чернівці, Czernowitz, Cernăuţi) is a city of about 264,000 in southwestern Ukraine on the Prut River, capital of Bukovina under Habsburg, Romanian, and Soviet rule, first mentioned in 1408 and home to the UNESCO-listed Metropolitan Residence.
Chișinău
Chișinău, capital of Moldova on the Bâc River, first documented July 17, 1436; medieval market town, modernized by the 1834 plan, home of the Water Tower city museum.
Dnipro (Дніпро)
Dnipro (Дніпро), formerly Yekaterinoslav and Dnipropetrovsk, is a major industrial city on the Dnipro River in east-central Ukraine, founded 1776, renamed 1926 and 2016, a wartime refuge and logistics hub.
Donetsk (Донецьк)
Donetsk (Донецьк), formerly Yuzivka/Yuzovka and Stalino, is a major industrial city on the Kalmius River in eastern Ukraine, capital of the self-proclaimed DPR since 2014, home of exiled FC Shakhtar.
Grodno (Гродна)
Grodno (Hrodna, Гродна) is a city in western Belarus, administrative center of Grodno Region on the Neman River. First mentioned 1128; former residence of Lithuanian grand dukes; third-largest Belarusian city with about 356,000 residents (2014).
Homyel
Homyel (Гомель, Gomel), second-largest city of Belarus on the Sozh River, capital of Homyel Region; first recorded 1142, industrial center (Gomselmash), about 500,000 people, removed from Chernobyl contamination list in 2026.
Horlivka
Horlivka (Горлівка, Russian Gorlovka) is a city in Donetsk oblast, Ukraine, 40 km northeast of Donetsk, founded in 1867 by mining engineer Petr Gorlov; a major Donbas anthracite-mining and chemical center, held by Russian-backed forces since 2014.
Irpin
Irpin (Ірпінь) is a city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, about 25 km from Kyiv on the Irpin River. Founded 1902 as a railway junction, a garden suburb and health resort, heavily destroyed in the 2022 Russian invasion and since largely rebuilt.
Ivano-Frankivsk (Івано-Франківськ)
Ivano-Frankivsk (Івано-Франківськ), formerly Stanyslaviv/Stanisławów, is the oblast center of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine; founded 1654 by the Potockis, renamed 1962 for Ivan Franko, population about 263,000.
Kamyanske, Dnipropetrovsk
Kamianske (Кам'янське), formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, is a city of oblast significance in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, on the middle Dnieper 35 km west of Dnipro; founded 1750, industrial center of metallurgy, coke chemistry, and freight-car building, population about 238,000.
Kerch
Kerch (Керч) is a port city of about 151,000 in eastern Crimea on the Kerch Strait, occupying the site of ancient Panticapaeum, the Milesian-founded capital of the Bosporan Kingdom, now a strategic bridge and port hub hit by 2026 strikes.
Kharkiv (Харьков)
Kharkiv (Харків; Харьков) is Ukraine's second-largest city and Kharkiv oblast capital, founded 1654/5, Soviet Ukraine's capital 1920–1934, a major university center with a three-line metro and the UNESCO-listed Derzhprom building.
Kherson (Херсон)
Kherson (Херсон), southern Ukrainian port city and capital of Kherson oblast on the Dnipro River; founded 1778 by Catherine II as a fortress and shipyard, first base of the Black Sea Fleet, occupied by Russia March–November 2022 and shelled since.
Khmelnytskyi (Хмельницький)
Khmelnytskyi (Хмельницький), formerly Proskuriv and Ploskiriv, is a western Ukrainian city and oblast center on the Southern Buh, first recorded in 1431, renamed in 1954 for Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, with about 270,000 residents.
Kramatorsk
Kramatorsk (Краматорськ), city in northern Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on the Kazennyi Torets River; founded 1868 as a railway station, a heavy machine-building center (NKMZ), temporary Donetsk oblast capital since 2014, Hero City 2025, frontline city since 2022.
Kremenchuk
Kremenchuk (Кременчук) is a city and river port in Poltava Oblast, central Ukraine, on the Dnipro River; founded as a fortress in 1571, it remains a heavy-industry hub.
Kropyvnytskyi
Kropyvnytskyi (Кропивницький), oblast capital in central Ukraine on the Inhul River; founded 1754 as Saint Elizabeth Fortress, formerly Yelysavethrad and Kirovohrad, renamed 2016 for the theater founder Marko Kropyvnytskyi.
Kryvyi Rih (Кривий Ріг)
Kryvyi Rih (Кривий Ріг), industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, center of the Kryvyi Rih Iron-ore Basin; 431 km², about 600,000 people, Zelenskyy's hometown, hit repeatedly since 2022.
Kyiv (Київ)
Kyiv (Київ), capital of Ukraine on the Dnipro River, about 2.96 million residents, area 835.58 km². Founded 5th–6th century, capital of Kyivan Rus from 882, Christianized 988; under sustained Russian missile and drone attack since 2022.
Luhansk (Луганськ)
Luhansk (Луганськ), city in eastern Ukraine at the Luhanka-Vilkhivka confluence, founded 1795 as a state cannon foundry under Charles Gascoigne; major machine-building center, LPR capital since 2014, population about 398,000 in 2022.
Lutsk
Lutsk (Луцьк) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine, administrative center of Volyn Oblast; first recorded 1085, site of the 1429 Congress, Lubart Castle, population about 216,000, ranked second in the 2025 European City Index.