Kryvyi Rih district, Dnipropetrovsk region / Photo: General Staff
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By Pavlo Vitenko
Summary by regions
Luhansk Region
The general situation on the contact line is unchanged – positional battles continue. During the night: three mortars and 9 artillery shells. Twice the occupiers used MLRS and tanks. Due to the massive losses of the occupiers after the fire damage inflicted by the Defense Forces on the places of concentration of Russian troops, in particular, effective high-precision strikes in the Perevalsk region, the corpses of Russian soldiers are being taken out in overcrowded trucks.
Donetsk Region
At night, the Russians shelled settlements on the front line in the Pokrovsk and Bakhmut districts.
In the middle of the night, Smerch and S-300 anti-aircraft missiles struck Selydove – one person was killed and 5 wounded. Rockets damaged 32 five-story buildings, a school, a gymnasium, and a kindergarten. Mariinka, Krasnohorivka, Nova Mykhailivka and Georgiivka came under artillery fire – there were no reports of casualties or destruction. In Avdiivka, there was another massive shelling of the city center in the morning. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties.
In the Bakhmut district, there were no victims at night, but there was destruction. Shortly before midnight, Toretsk came under fire – a shell hit a wasteland, but the explosion damaged the windows and roofs of nearby buildings. Also on the territory of the community it was loud in the Pivnichne. In Paraskoviivka Russians destroyed 1 house overnight, and damaged 5 more.
The region remains without gas and partly without water and electricity. Mandatory evacuation of the population continues. In one day, 5 civilians were killed and 6 wounded in the Donetsk region.
Sumy Region
This morning, four mines from Russia flew over the territory of the Krasnopillia community. According to preliminary information, there were no victims or destruction.
Over the past day, the enemy shelled the communities of Velyka Pysarivka, Bilopillia, Krasnopillia, Shalyhyne and Seredyno-Budsk.
Kharkiv Region
That night, the enemy launched rocket attacks on Kharkiv and the village of Zolochiv, Bohodukhiv district. In the Sloboda district of Kharkiv, a rocket hit the ground near a residential building. The house was partially damaged, 5 garages were destroyed, and the car was burned. Four people were lightly injured, including two children aged five and 17. A rocket hit a one-story non-residential building in the Kyiv region. Fortunately, no losses.
In the village of Zolochiv at night, two rockets of the occupiers hit the asphalt near the educational institution. Windows in the building were broken. Previously – without losses.
During the past day, the enemy massively shelled the recently liberated settlements of the Kharkiv region in the Kharkiv, Kupiansk and Izyum districts. Residential buildings were destroyed, there are victims.
According to the Center for Emergency Medical Assistance, 10 people were injured in the Kupiansk district during the day, including 2 children aged 12 and 13. One more person was wounded in Izyum district, one in Kharkiv district.
Dnipropetrovsk Region
That night, the Russians shelled the Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih districts. Nikopol was hit 5 times with «Hrad» and heavy artillery. A woman was injured in Nikopol, medics provided help – she is being treated at home. In the city, 11 high-rise and private buildings, a lyceum, a kindergarten, a social service center, several businesses, gas pipelines and power lines were damaged.
3 high-rise buildings, a store and a car were damaged in the Chervonohryhorivka community. People were not injured.
In the Marhanets and Zelenodolsk communities, there were also no casualties.
Mykolayiv Region
At night, the town of Berezneguvate was shelled, as a result of which the warehouse of the farm was partially destroyed. Also, a fire broke out due to the fall of ammunition and their fragments. There are no casualties. Settlements of the Berezneguvate community remain under constant fire. Yes, over the past day there were shellings in the village. Murakhivka, the Berezneguvate station, Chervonyi Yar village, also came under fire.
During the past day, periodic shelling of the outskirts of the village continued. Nova Oleksandrivka. There were no injuries or damage.
Kherson Region
The situation in the region remains difficult. Positional battles continue, the Defense Forces continue to improve their tactical position and entrench themselves in the liberated territories. The enemy tried to conduct an assault in the direction from Arkhanhelske to Ivanivka. He had no success, retreated with losses.
During the night, rocket and artillery units performed 140 fire missions. Including in the areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and equipment of the enemy. The Kakhovka Bridge is under close fire control. Occupiers have no opportunity to use it.
UKRAINE: The losses of the Russian occupiers in Ukraine exceeded 54,000 people – General Staff
The Armed Forces repelled Russian attacks near Bakhmut and Avdiivka, 13 enemy strongholds were hit – General Staff
Almost the entire Kharkiv region is deoccupied – Zelensky
The Security Service of Ukraine opened a criminal investigation into the fact that the Russians shelled a dam in the Dnipropetrovsk region
Russian troops are purposefully hitting Kryvyi Rih: the occupiers want to raise the water level in order to slow down the advance of the Armed Forces of the Kherson region
«The Russian Federation leaves behind death everywhere»: a mass burial of people was found in Izyum – Zelensky
A creepy photo of one of the torture camps that the occupiers staged in Balaklia appeared on the Internet:
«Lord’s Prayer» on the wall of the torture chamber in Balaklia / National Police
WORLD: Russia is already using combat drones from Iran in Ukraine – the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The occupiers in the Kherson region flee across the Dnipro on stolen boats without food or water – Ukrainian intelligence
In Russia, prisoners are lured into the war against Ukraine – British intelligence
After the defeat in the Kharkiv region, the Russians intensified their covert mobilization – ISW
«The Russian Federation will continue to experience impunity»: Zelensky called on the West to provide Ukraine with air defense systems
The IAEA called on Russia to immediately withdraw its troops from the ZNPP
Zelensky reported on Ukraine’s approach to EU membership after Ursula von der Leyen’s visit
Dead children and human limbs in the teeth of dogs: «Tyra» in the USA told about the horrors of Mariupol and captivity
Paramedic Yulia «Tyra» Paevska, released from Russian captivity, spoke about the crimes of the Russian occupiers in Mariupol and the horrors of imprisonment before the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress.
This is reported by The Guardian.
«Tyra» gave harrowing testimony to US lawmakers, recounting her experiences of torture and Russian terror.
The publication provides details of Paevska’s testimony.
«Pregnant female prisoners, neither their relatives nor the state know about their fate. A fighter who was beaten for three hours and then thrown into the basement like a sack. And only a day later someone came to him. A dead child in his mother’s arms A seven-year-old boy with bullet wounds dies in my lap, because in this case I could not avert death,» said «Tyra».
According to paramedics, prisoners screamed and died from torture in their cells for weeks without any medical help. The only thing they experienced before death was abuse and additional beatings.
«My friend, whose eyes I closed before his death. And another friend. And another, and another. A city of half a million is dying before my eyes under airstrikes – methodical, planned. Airstrikes on hospitals and residential areas.
A hospital full of wounded soldiers and civilians, running out of anesthetics and antibiotics. Soldiers and all medical personnel sleep two to three hours a day, because operations are carried out one after another. «Ambulances» arrive every 5-10 minutes, where the wounded and dead lie on top of each other. Burning cars with burning people in them.
Rescuers pull women and children mutilated beyond recognition from under the rubble. People collect water from puddles. Robbed houses. Dogs, which were once pets, dragged human limbs through the city,» she describes the horrors of Mariupol.
Paevska said that a Russian soldier asked her while torturing her: «You know why we do this to you.»
«Because you can,» she replied.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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