One of the graves in Izyum, Kharkiv region / Associated Press
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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 there were 3 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 missile systems attacked Selidovo – one person was killed and 5 wounded.
Rockets damaged 32 five-story buildings, a school, a gymnasium, and a kindergarten. In the Mariinka, Krasnohorivka, Nova Mykhailivka and Georgiivka came under artillery fire. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
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 of the Soledar community, the Russians destroyed one 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, 4 landmines from Russia landed on the territory of the Krasnopillia community. According to preliminary information, there were no victims or destruction.
Last day, the occupiers shelled Velyka Pysarivka, Bilopillia, Krasnopillia, Shalyhyne and Seredyno-Budsk communities.
Kharkiv Region
Tonight, 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.
As a result, the house was partially damaged, 5 garages were destroyed, and the car burned. 4 people, including 2 children aged 5 and 17, received minor injuries. A rocket hit a one-story non-residential building in the Kyiv region. It passed without loss.
In the village of Zolochiv, two rockets of the occupiers hit the asphalt near the educational institution at night. Windows in the building were broken. In advance, without loss.
During the past day, the enemy massively shelled the recently liberated settlements of the Kharkiv region in the Kharkiv, Kupiansk and Izyum districts. As a result, residential buildings were destroyed and there were victims.
According to the Center for Emergency Medical Assistance, 10 people were injured during the day in the Kupiansk district, including two children: 12 and 13 years old. 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. Nikipol 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.
Mykolayiv Region
At night, the Russians shelled the village of Berezneguvate, 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, during the past day, the village of Murakhivka was shelled, the Berezneguvate station, the village of Chervonyi Yar were also shelled.
During the past day, periodic shelling of the outskirts of the village of Nova Oleksandrivka of the Ingul community continued. There were no injuries or damage.
Kherson Region
The situation in the region remains difficult. Positional battles continue. The defense forces continue to improve the tactical position and establish themselves in the liberated territories. The enemy tried to conduct an assault in the direction from Arkhanhelske to Ivanivka – he was unsuccessful and retreated with losses.
During the night, the missile and artillery units carried out 140 fire missions, in particular, in the areas of the concentration of manpower, weapons and equipment of the enemy. The Kakhovka Bridge is under close fire control. Occupiers have no opportunity to use it.
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Mass burials of people – 450 graves – were found in Izyum, Kharkiv Region, which was liberated from the Russian occupiers.
Mass burials and Russian torture chambers in the liberated cities of the Kharkiv region testify to the fact that the Russians are committing war crimes in all the occupied territories.
This is stated in the report of the American Institute for the Study of War.
«The discovery of mass graves of civilians and torture chambers in the newly liberated Izyum confirm that the atrocities in Buch were not isolated war crimes, but a microcosm of Russian atrocities in Russian-occupied territories,» ISW said.
ISW has no doubt that Ukrainian defenders will continue to find evidence of Russian war crimes and atrocities during the liberation of occupied settlements.
As previously reported, after the liberation of the Kharkiv region from the occupiers, the terrible crimes of the Russian military were revealed. More than 400 graves with tortured and killed civilians and soldiers were found in the forest near Izyum.
Among the bodies that were exhumed, 99% showed signs of violent death. Most of the graves don’t even have names on them, just a marker with a number.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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