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By Pavlo Vitenko
Summary by regions
Luhansk Region
Over the past night, the enemy launched six artillery barrages and four mortars, launched a rocket attack, tried to hit the positions of our troops from tanks, and used aviation twice.
Russian attacks were repulsed in seven directions. For one, the battles are still going on.
Donetsk Region
At night – a rocket attack on Kurakhovo. There were no casualties among the civilian population. Also at night – a rocket attack on the village. Kurahivka A direct hit to a private residential building. The rescue operation is ongoing, the fire is being extinguished and debris is being cleared by the State Emergency Service.
In the morning – shelling of Druzhkivka. About a dozen private houses were damaged. During the day, Avdiivka, Bakhmut, the village were shelled. Zaitseve, village Karlivka, village Bylbasivka during the day, two civilians were killed and seven wounded.
Kharkiv Region
During the day, the Russian occupiers intensively carried out artillery and rocket attacks on the city and the region. The Saltiv district of Kharkiv was shelled several times with MLRS. Residential high-rise buildings, critical transport infrastructure were damaged, and open areas were hit. No casualties.
During the day, the occupiers shelled the Kharkiv, Izyum, Chuhuiv, and Bohodukhiv districts throughout the region.
This morning, the Defense Headquarters recorded the launch of more than five rockets from Belgorod. Rocket strikes damaged residential buildings, and several fires broke out.
In the Izyum district, critical infrastructure was damaged by shelling, and grass burned in open areas. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties.
Odesa Region
The enemy launched a rocket attack on Odesa region tonight. As a result of the impact of two rockets, destruction and fires broke out at one of the recreation centers and in several private buildings nearby. Four people were injured. Rescuers extinguished the fire at the scene for almost five hours
Dnipropetrovsk Region
The enemy again shelled the Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol districts. He hit Nikopol three times during the night.
In Nikopol, 6 private houses, cars and low-pressure gas boilers were damaged. In the Chervonogryhorivka community, a local enterprise and the recently repaired Nikopol highway were affected. Power line cut. People were not injured
In the Kryvyi Rih district, the enemy hit the Shyroke community. Without victims and destruction.
Mykolayiv Region
Yesterday evening, the enemy hit the port infrastructure of Mykolayiv with rockets from the Smerch salvo fire system. Without human losses.
Tonight, the Russian occupiers once again bombarded Mykolayiv with missiles of the S-300 type. It is known that civilian objects were hit, in particular, the Petro Mohyla National University and one of the city’s enterprises. Private houses were also damaged. Previously, there were no victims or victims. Detailed information is being clarified.
At night, the village of Shyroke was also shelled. Hits were on agricultural buildings and the road. There are no casualties.
Shelling of the territory and nearby settlements of the Berezneguvate community continues. Information on victims and damage is being clarified.
Kherson Region
The situation in the Kherson region is persistently dire: air raids, loud explosions and shelling, house searches, looting and kidnappings have continued over the past 24 hours. Residents of the region also reported massively about fighter jets flying over the territory of the regions.
During the day, the Russian military shelled 6 settlements in the Kherson region, as a result of which local residents were injured.
In addition, there is information that the occupation authorities and the military have significantly increased the pressure on the residents of the region. In particular, checks of documents, telephones, and transport have increased.
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In Kherson, the occupiers issued a «pension»: people exchanged rubles and transferred money to the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The occupiers brought 40,000 rubles for two in two months.
In Kherson, a couple of local residents received 40,000 rubles of «pension» from the Russian occupiers, exchanged them for hryvnias and transferred the received amount to the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As the Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Yurii Sobolevskyi said, a local journalist shared this story with him.
He noted that the Ukrainians did not contact anywhere about receiving funds and did not provide their data.
«They brought 40,000 rubles for the two of them in two months. The couple did not think for long how exactly to use this money. Despite all the difficulties of life in occupied Kherson, they were able to exchange rubles for hryvnias and put them in their bank account (today such actions it’s already very difficult to do), and then they transferred the received amount to the Ukrainian Armed Forces,» Sobolevskyi wrote.
He added that it is thanks to such people that Kherson is a hero city.
«Ukrainian Kherson rests on such patriots. After the deoccupation, we will definitely name these brave and loyal people! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Ukrainian people!» – noted Sobolevskyi.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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