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By Pavlo Vitenko
Summary by regions
Luhansk Region
Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the attacks of the Russian invaders in the districts of Novoselivske, Chervonopivka, and Bilohorivka.
On the Kupiansk and Lymansk directions, the districts of Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, Myasozharivka, Hrekivka, Ploshanka, Nevsky, Chervonpopivka, and Pishchany were subjected to Russian shelling from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery. All attacks are repelled.
In connection with a significant number of wounded, the so-called «decree» of the occupation authorities transferred Hospital No. 15 in Yuvileiny near Luhansk and Hospital No. 3 in Luhansk for the needs of the military. The number of dead is also increasing.
Donetsk Region
In the morning there was a massive artillery barrage from the MLRs system in the old part of Avdiivka. Hitting private houses.
Along the line of defense around the city, chaotic shelling of positions continued during the night, and in the morning there was an intensification of assaults in the directions of Opytne, Vodyane, and Pervomaiske.
Also at night – missile attack on Kurakhove (according to preliminary data, S-300 – 4 missiles). Private houses and buildings and structures of industrial enterprises, electrical networks were damaged.
At night – shelling of the Kurakhivka village. A private house was damaged.
At night, the towns of Mariinka, the town of Krasnohorivka, the village of Georgiyivka, and the village of Novomykhailivka were under enemy artillery fire.
During the day and night, intensive artillery shelling of the villages of Yakovlivka, the village of Bakhmutske, the village of division,
Paraskoviivka village. Four private houses, kindergartens, premises of State Enterprise «Artemsil» were damaged.
Yesterday afternoon, as a result of a rocket attack on Kramatorsk, one rocket fell in an industrial zone, another destroyed the building of the Donbas Institute of Technology and Management; 9 multi-apartment residential buildings, the educational building of the Donbas State Machine-Building Academy, the building of the State Rehabilitation Institution «Center for Complex Rehabilitation for Persons with Disabilities», the building of the Kramatorsk bus station were damaged.
Sumy Region
Yesterday, during the day, the enemy shelled the communities of Esman, Bilopillia, and Khotyn. The enemy made 28 strikes on the border.
Kharkiv Region
The occupiers continue to attack the Kupiansk district. Yesterday, units of the Defense Forces repelled attacks in the Hryanikyvka district of the Dvorichan community. Areas of the settlements of Kupiansk, Kotlyarivka, Tabaivka and Berestove came under shelling from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery. And also Ambarne, Vilkhuvatka, Khatne, Milove and Dvorichna.
In addition, enemy shelling was recorded in Kharkiv and Chuhuiv districts. No victims.
Dnipropetrovsk Region
The Russians again terrorized Nikopol region, hitting two cities with «Hrads», «Uragans» and heavy artillery
In Nikopol, several private houses, service stations and power lines were damaged. In Marhanets, more than a dozen private houses and farm buildings, gas furnaces and electricity networks were mutilated. No victims.
Zaporizhzhia Region
During the past day, the occupiers shelled the civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlements of Gulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Charivne, Kamianske, Orihiv, Dorozhnyanka, Novodarivka, Novoandriivka, Shcherbaki, Mala Tokmachka, Malynivka, Mali Shcherbaki, Plavni.
12 reports were received about the destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure objects as a result of shelling by Russian military personnel. The information is being clarified.
Kherson Region
According to information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy continues to shell our positions and the civilian infrastructure of settlements along the right bank of the Dnipro River. He carried out shelling from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of populated areas, in particular: Chornobayivka, Antonivka, Mykilske, Tokarivka, Novokairy, Respublikanets, Mylové and the city of Kherson.
Work on restoring the electricity supply continues. With light now: Muzikyvka, Shkurynivka, Zagoryanivka, Bohdanivka, Petrivka, Veletenske, Pervomaiske, Rozlyv, Yantarne, Berehove.
Water supply is restored. Road clearing works are ongoing in the Kherson region.
The National Police and the State Emergency Service defused more than 250 explosive items.
Medicines were delivered to the Kherson Regional Hospital.
Humanitarian aid continues to be provided in the de-occupied territories of the Kherson region.
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«The boys are holding Bakhmut»: a fighter of the Svoboda battalion spoke about the situation at the front
It is consistently difficult under Bakhmut.
Ukrainian defenders, despite the occupiers’ efforts to encircle the city, frost and difficult conditions, hold the city.
Yaroslav Lysenko, a soldier of the Svoboda («Freedom») battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine, told about this on the air of the «Espresso» TV channel.
He noted that Bakhmut has turned into Stalingrad.
«The guys are holding on and holding Bakhmut. (...) We will not give up the city, the enemy will not pass any further! The enemy has some success in the east of Bakhmut, they are trying to encircle the city. But now we have a lot of support coming to us, so in a day or two we will repulse all the enemy’s attacks and come out again at a distance of 10 km from Bakhmut,» Lysenko said.
According to the fighter, the city is geographically stretched, the center and key places of the enemy are still far away.
«There is nothing rosy in the Avdiivka – Donetsk – Bakhmut direction, but there is nothing critical either. Despite the frost, in two sets of thermal vests, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding Bakhmut. We are annoyed by the enemy’s infantry, which pointlessly marches and dies. Our MLRS worked hard and repelled their desire to accumulate manpower near Bakhmut. Minus 150-200 occupiers only in the Bakhmut direction,» the soldier added.
Earlier it was reported that an enemy sabotage and intelligence group was trying to break through in the Bakhmut area. The Russians unexpectedly encountered the Ukrainian border guards. After the «reaction» of our fighters, the enemy Sabotage and Reconnaissance Group, having suffered losses, retreated.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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