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Situation summary of war in Ukraine by region for Thursday, December 22, 2022.
Zelensky and Biden / Photo: Associated Press

Zelensky and Biden / Photo: Associated Press

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By Pavlo Vitenko

Summary by regions

Luhansk Region

The occupiers did not stop beating the populated areas of Luhansk region, from where they were expelled by the Ukrainian military.

Two wounded residents were hospitalized in Kramatorsk and Slovyansk due to the shelling of Nevske and Makiivka yesterday. Also yesterday, the Russians shelled Novoselivske and Stelmakhivka in the Kupyansk direction.

Fire damage in the Lyman direction was recorded near Ploshanka, Chervonopovka and Dibrova. Our soldiers repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, Ploshanka and Chervonopopivka.

Donetsk Region

This morning there was a massive art attack in the old part of Avdiivka. Information about the injured civilians is being clarified. Along the line of defense around the city, shelling continued almost all night. In the morning, intensification of assault operations in the directions of Opytne, Vodyane, and Pervomaiske.

The situation along the entire front line is tense, but under control. Yesterday afternoon – a missile attack (S-300) on Pokrovsk. No victims. In one day in the Donetsk region: three wounded civilians.

Sumy Region

Tonight, the enemy dropped an explosive device from a quadcopter on the territory of the Krasnopillia community of the Sumy district. There are no casualties among the civilian population. Detailed information on the consequences is being clarified.

Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 23 strikes on the border of the Sumy region. Seredyno-Budsk and Hlukhiv communities were under enemy fire. No victims.

Kharkiv Region

The occupiers continue to carry out artillery strikes on the border settlements of Chuhuiv, Kupiansk, and Kharkiv districts. Yesterday in the city of Kupiansk, the second floor of the administrative building of the company was on fire due to artillery shelling. No casualties.

A 45-year-old tractor driver blew himself up on an explosive device in Chuhuiv district, received shrapnel wounds, was hospitalized, his condition is average.

In the city of Izyum, a 40-year-old man was injured due to the explosion of ammunition, which he disassembled on his own at home. He received 1-2 degree burns.

Dnipropetrovsk Region

The Russians bombarded Nikopol region all night long with «Uragans», «Hrads» and heavy artillery. They also hit in Chervonohryhorivka and Marganets communities.

An 8-year-old girl was injured in Marhanets. She was hospitalized at night. Doctors provided help and the child was discharged from the hospital in the morning. In Marhanets, up to 20 private houses and farm buildings, a car, two gas furnaces and four power lines were damaged.

In the Chervonohryhorivka community, one house was destroyed, 20 were damaged. Two cars, 7 farm buildings and 6 power lines were damaged.

Zaporizhzhia Region

Over the past day, the occupiers shelled civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlements of Hulyaipole, Bilohirya, Dorozhnyanka, Charivne, Novoandriivka, Novodanylivka, Mala Tokmachka, Olhivske, Preobrazhenka, Shcherbaki, Malynivka, Poltavka, Chervone, Zaliznychne, Orihiv, Plavni, Mali Shcherbaki, Kamianske

49 reports were received about the destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure objects as a result of shelling by the Russian Federation. Details are being clarified.

Kherson Region

Yesterday, Russian troops once again shelled the Beryslav and Kherson districts, the city of Kherson and its suburbs. They fired artillery, anti-aircraft guns, mortars and tanks, aimed at infrastructural facilities, trying to deprive people of light and heat.

The enemy shelled the village of Stanislav several times. As a result of the shelling, a 74-year-old man was seriously injured. Due to enemy attacks, it was necessary to evacuate people from the Humanitarian Aid Dispensing Point and the Invincibility Point. In total, one person died and six were injured in the Kherson region yesterday.

In the Vysokopillia district, a team of energy workers ran into a mine left by the Russian occupiers during repair work. Fortunately, the workers were not injured. A company car was damaged.

The return of life to the liberated Kherson region continues. More than 150 mobile communication stations are already in operation, and more than 200 explosive objects have been neutralized.

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In the Kherson region, the bodies of six people with traces of torture were found in the yard of a house

Another 36 graves were also discovered in the settlement of geologists in Kherson

In the yard of a house in the village of Pravdyno in the Kherson region, which was under the occupation of the Russian army, law enforcement officers discovered a burial with the remains of six people. They had signs of torture and gunshot wounds

This was announced by the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yevhenii Yenin.

According to him, the corpses were exhumed. They were sent for a forensic medical examination.

Law enforcement officers also discovered 36 more graves at the cemetery in the settlement of geologists in Kherson. There are also bodies of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the People’s Republic of Ukraine at the mass burial site.

«In general, during the period of occupation, the morgues received about 700 bodies, of which approximately 100 were injured as a result of military operations, and the identity of 12 of them has not yet been established,» Yevhenii Yenin said.

Currently, the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs emphasized, work is underway to quickly collect DNA samples of relatives to identify the victims. Unfortunately, complications often arise because the relatives of many of the dead are abroad or there is no contact with them.

By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News

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