apartment buildings now called "Shaktyorski," "Gagarin," and "Molodyozh"." In the 1990s, private businesses began to appear - trade, transportation, and customer services. The backbone of the community remained its coal enterprises, which account for 95% of all manufactured goods in the city.

Since early 2014, Rovenky has been controlled by the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) and not by Ukrainian authorities. On 11 July 2014, alleged pro-Russia forces attacked a concentration of Ukrainian