Kupiansk, Kharkiv region / Photo: Associated Press
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By Pavlo Vitenko
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Summary by regions
Luhansk Region
During the past day, the attacks of the occupiers were repelled from Ploshanka, Nevske, and Bilohorivka.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy shelled the districts of Novoselivske and Stelmakhivka with tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery.
The Russians are trying to improve their tactical position in the Lyman and Avdiivka directions. In particular, in the Lyman direction, they opened fire on Hrekivka, Makiivka, Ploschanka, Nevske and Chervonpopivka.
Donetsk Region
Throughout the night, the positions and outskirts of the Toretsk community were shelled with heavy weapons and small arms. The situation is tense but under control in the Ozoryanivka, Kurdyumivka, New York, Northern, Southern, Shumiv, Druzhba, Magdalinivka and Zalizne districts. Information about the victims is being clarified.
In the morning, hostilities intensified in the area of Vodyane and Pervomaiske villages. Over the past day in the Donetsk region: 4 wounded.
Sumy Region
On Friday evening, the Russians hit the S-300 in the Velyka Pysarivka community. There is significant destruction of civil infrastructure. Information about the victims is being clarified.
On Friday, during the day, the enemy made 48 strikes on the border: on Shalyhyne and Yunakiv communities. In both cases there were no victims.
Kharkiv Region
During the day, the occupiers shelled settlements of the border communities of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv, Izyum, and Kupyan districts. There is damage to economic buildings, hits on open areas, remnants of warehouse buildings burned in Kupiansk. No casualties.
Dnipropetrovsk Region
The Nikopol region again suffered from Russian attacks. The Russians hit the Marhanets and Nikopol communities with heavy artillery. Nikopol suffered the most. There are four injured elderly people, two are in the hospital.
In the city, 11 high-rise and private buildings, a kindergarten, office and administrative buildings, a car wash, a parking lot, a gas pipeline and power lines were damaged.
No people were injured in the Marhanets community. The details of the shelling are being clarified.
Zaporizhzhia Region
During the past day, the occupiers shelled the civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlements of Stepove, Orihiv, Zaliznychne, Shcherbaki, Chervone, Gulyaipole, Preobrazhenka, Dorozhnyanka, Olhivske, Novoandriivka, Poltavka, Mala Tokmachka, Timyrivka, Mali Shcherbaki, Plavni, Charivne.
32 reports were received about the destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure objects as a result of shelling by Russian military personnel. The details of the consequences are being clarified.
Kherson Region
The situation in the region remains difficult. According to the information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the Kherson direction, the enemy carried out artillery shelling of the settlements of the Kherson region, which are close to the contact line. Antonivka, Chornobayivka, and the city of Kherson were subjected to artillery shelling, and civilians were injured.
The Russian occupiers also opened fire on the hospital in Beryslav. The hospital was hit by 3 enemy shells, and the building was seriously damaged.
The situation in the Holoprystan community is extremely difficult. The shelling does not stop day and night. Over the past day, there have been mortar hits on private homes and the destruction of private buildings. No victims.
Work continues to restore normal life to the liberated Kherson region: electricity and heat are being restored, mobile phone stations are being connected.
The National Police’s explosives experts examined 13 hectares of territory and recovered 158 explosive objects. Pyrotechnicians of the State Emergency Service examined almost 11 hectares of territory, removed and neutralized 92 explosive objects.
Road clearing works are ongoing in the Kherson region. The delivery of humanitarian aid to residents of the Kherson region continues.
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The occupiers changed their tactics in the Bakhmut area: the enemy’s goals and the number of casualties became known
The Russian invaders take a number, a rush of manpower, but they are defeated by the Ukrainian defenders.
In the Bakhmut area, Russian troops use assault tactics by individual units and even small groups, suffering heavy losses there.
In an interview with TSN.ua, the head of Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, told about this.
In particular, he confirmed the words of the head of the President’s Office, Andrii Yermak, that «in Bakhmut, there are pictures, as if from the First World War, of gloom and corpses of enemies who are not even taken away from the battlefield. They lay down hundreds of them without an idea, without honor.»
«It is as the head of the Office said. This information is true. The enemy has now changed their tactics somewhat and is using assault tactics by their separate units, even in small groups. For example, a group of ten people goes without technical support. Before they go out, artillery training, and after that such small assault groups come out. As a rule, they do not turn back,» the head of Donetsk region described the situation.
He also reported on the huge losses of Russian troops in the Bakhmut direction.
«Their bodies are literally stored in certain areas of the front – where they carry out offensive actions and cannot break through the defense. And there these bodies or fragments of these bodies are left by the enemy – everyone who is used in an offensive operation. That is, it is not only the regular armed forces of the Russian Federation, as well as private military companies like «Wagner», Kyrylenko said.
He added that 200 occupiers die every day in the Bakhmut direction.
«They use such a tactic that they take in numbers, a mass of manpower. That is, they are «put» there, our defenders simply break them up, bring in new groups, new reinforcements, and they go and go again,» explained the head of the Regional Military Administration.
He also described the main objective of the enemy in the Bakhmut direction, but he is convinced that the enemy will not achieve it.
«The General Staff understands this very well, what their main goal is: if they don’t even enter Bakhmut, then bypass it in order to open a further way to the north, the center of the region. But at the same time, the command also understands very well that the enemy needs the city to stop for the cold winter period. But all measures are being taken to ensure that these attempts are unsuccessful, as they are now,» Kyrylenko said.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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