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.[citation needed]
On 30 August 2023, during the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive, Ukrainian troops reached the northwestern outskirts of Verbove.[4] On 6 September, Ukrainian troops advanced along the line of Russian fortifications and entered the northwestern part of the village.[5][6][7] 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.[8]
^Князьков, Ю. (2004). Запорізька область. Запоріжжя: Тандем-У. p. 205. ...згадка про заснування села у 1790-ті рр. (... a mention that the village was founded in the 1790s)
^Nicole Wolkov; Angelica Evans; Christina Harward; Riley Bailey; Frederick W. Kagan (21 September 2023). "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 21, 2023". understandingwar.org. ISW. Retrieved 23 September 2023. Geolocated footage published on September 20 indicates that Ukrainian forces advanced southwest and west of Verbove (18km southeast of Orikhiv).