Verbove, Polohy Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Verbove (Вербо́ве, ) is a village in Polohy Raion, in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast of southern Ukraine. It is administratively located in Polohy urban hromada. It had a population of 1,246 as of 2001. A small river, the Verbova, flows north-westward through the village and on to Orikhiv, where it joins the Konka river.

History
The village was founded in the 1790s under the Russian Empire by migrants from the Poltava region.

As a result of the Holodomor, a manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s, 269 people in the village died.

Russo-Ukrainian War
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Verbove was occupied by Russian forces as part of its southern campaign sometime between late February/early March, prior to the battle of Orikhiv.

Sometime in June 2022, the Second World War monument "Mother in Sorrow", which stood over a mass grave where 972 Red Army soldiers are buried.

On 30 August 2023, during the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive, Ukrainian troops reached the northwestern outskirts of Verbove. On 6 September, Ukrainian troops advanced along the line of Russian fortifications and entered the northwestern part of the village. However, by 27 February 2024, Russian forces had forced the Ukrainians out of the village, back beyond the first Russian defensive belt, and restarted small-scale offensive operations around nearby Robotyne.