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Region: Zaporizhzhia Oblast (west bank controlled by Ukraine, east bank contested)
Importance: Major industrial city and administrative center.
2. Kryvyi Rih (Кpивий Piг)
Region: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (partially east of the Dnipro)
Importance: Key industrial and mining city, hometown of President Zelensky.
3. Nikopol (Hiкoпoль)
Region: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (on the west bank but faces Russian-occupied east bank)
Importance: Major river port and industrial hub under constant shelling.
4. Marhanets (Mapгaнeць)
Region: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (near Nikopol, west bank)
Importance: Mining town, heavily affected by Russian strikes.
5. Velyka Novosilka (Beликa Hoвociлкa)
Region: Donetsk Oblast (east of the Dnipro)
Importance: Key Ukrainian stronghold in the Donetsk sector.
6. Orikhiv (Opiхiв)
Region: Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Importance: Frontline town, gateway to potential Ukrainian advances toward Tokmak.
7. Huliaipole (Гyляйпoлe)
Region: Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Importance: Long-held Ukrainian town near the front line.
8. Vuhledar (Byглeдap)
Region: Donetsk Oblast
Importance: Strategically important mining town, has resisted Russian assaults.
9. Pavlivka (Пaвлiвкa)
Region: Donetsk Oblast
Importance: Frontline village near Vuhledar.
10. Novodarivka (Hoвoдapiвкa)
Region: Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Importance: Small but strategically contested settlement.