In 1943, the bodies of those killed by the German army were recovered from the mines in Kadiufka. On July 12, 1942, the German army occupied Kadiufka in the Donbas region of Ukraine.

　In 1943, the bodies of those killed by the German army were recovered from the mines in Kadiufka. On July 12th 1942, during the Second World War, the German army occupied Kadiufka in the Donbas region of Ukraine.

　In 1942, the Soviet Union's military and government forces withdrew from Kadiivka. After that, the town of Kadiivka was invaded and came under the control of the German army. During the German occupation, individual partisans, including partisan units, fought against the German occupying forces in Kadiivka. After being liberated from the German army, the town returned to its original name of Kadiufka, which it retained until 1978.

　In the Russian settlement of Stalino, in the Donbass, the German army killed 13,854 civilians and 10,260 Soviet prisoners of war on April 4 and 5, 1943. The majority of these killings were carried out by the German army and its allies. During the Donbas Operation (August 13 - September 22, 1943), the Soviet army carried out a strategic military operation to liberate the Donets Basin from Nazi Germany. The Soviet army suffered 273,500 casualties. The casualties of the German army are unknown.

　Due to the Russo-Ukrainian War that broke out on February 24, 2022, the Russian military invaded Ukraine and launched a military offensive in the Donbass region from April 18, 2022. The Russian army invaded, surrounded the Ukrainian army in Donbass, and on April 29th, annexed the entire Donetsk and Luhansk regions to the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), which are separatist states supported by pro-Russian factions.