Bucha, Kyiv region / Photo: Associated Press
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By Pavlo Vitenko
Summary by regions
Luhansk Region
Last day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of Stelmakhivka, Andriivka, Nadiya, Makiivka, Ploshanka, Chervonopopivka, and Dibrova.
In the Kupiansk direction, the enemy carried out fire damage near Novoselivske and Stelmakhivka. In the Lyman direction, Makiivka, Ploshanka, Chervonopivka and Dibrova were fired upon. The situation in the region remains difficult.
Donetsk Region
At night – shelling of populated areas along the front line. In the morning, the enemy launched an artillery bombardment of Avdiivka. Yesterday afternoon – a missile attack on Kramatorsk. Two S-300 missiles. One fell in an industrial zone, the other in the center, destroyed the building of a boarding school. During the past day, shelling of Chasovyi Yar and Bakhmut. In the region, seven civilians were wounded per day.
Sumy Region
At night – artillery shelling (probably self-propelled guns, 4 rounds) of the Seredyno-Budsk urban united territorial community of Shostka district.
54 blows were made by the enemy along the border during the day yesterday. The communities of Bilopillia, Khotyn and Znob-Novhorod were under fire. No victims. Other consequences are being clarified.
Kharkiv Region
The occupiers launched missile and artillery strikes in the Kharkiv region. Anti-aircraft fire was activated in Kharkiv. The Russians shelled the border settlements of Kharkiv, Chuhuiv, Kupiansk, and Izyum districts.
In the Vovchansk community, garages were on fire, as a result of the hits, the business block of the Central District Hospital was damaged. 4 employees of the district hospital were injured, where one 62-year-old man was also injured. Shelling by the occupiers destroyed a residential building in Kupiansk, another house caught fire. No victims.
Mine danger will remain high. A 25-year-old man was blown up by an unknown explosive device in the forest in Protopopivka, Izyum district. Hospitalized, average condition.
Dnipropetrovsk Region
The Russians again terrorized the Nikopol region, hitting Nikopol and Marhanets twice with heavy artillery. No victims. Several private houses, several farm buildings and a gas pipeline were mutilated in Nikopol. In Marhanets, the consequences of the attack are becoming clear.
Zaporizhzhia Region
Over the past day, the occupiers shelled civilian infrastructure in the area of the settlements of Kamianske, Poltavka, Orihiv, Gulyaipole, Novoandriivka, Zaliznychne, Malynivka, Charivne, Dorozhnyanka, Mahdalynivka, Novodanylivka, Mala Tokmachka, Olhivske, Chervone, Temyrivka, Plavni, Stepove, Mali Shcherbaki.
It is about the destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure facilities as a result of shelling by the Russian Federation. Detailed information on the consequences is being clarified.
Kherson Region
Russian troops continue mortar and artillery shelling of civilian infrastructure along the right bank of the Dnipro River. According to the information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the areas of the settlements of Novodmytrivka, Kachkarivka, Inzhenerne, Lvove and Kherson were damaged by fire. Russian invaders are constantly attacking the Ostriv microdistrict in Kherson. This neighborhood is a zone of increased danger.
Electricity and gas pipelines were damaged in Stanislav due to the impact of Russian artillery. A man is injured, he is being treated. 10 houses of local residents were damaged. In general, two people were wounded and 1 person died in Kherson Oblast last day due to Russian shelling.
Work continues to restore normal life to the liberated Kherson region. Also yesterday in the temporarily occupied Kakhovka, the head of the occupying «Lyubymivka village administration» Andrii Shtepa, along with the driver, were burned alive in an official car as a result of an explosion.
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Atrocities in Bucha: NYT journalists identified 22 occupiers who killed Ukrainians
The 234th Regiment is part of the 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division, which the Prosecutor General’s Office suspects of atrocities in Buch.
Journalists identified 22 Russian soldiers who killed civilians in Buchi during the occupation of the city in March 2022. These are fighters of the 234th Airborne Assault Regiment of the Russian Federation.
This is reported by The New York Times.
Thus, journalists analyzed recordings of telephone conversations, documents, interviews and thousands of hours of video. The results show that the Russian airborne unit killed dozens of people on Yablunska Street in Buch in March. The invaders also took mobile phones from the victims and immediately called Russia or Russian phone numbers.
The Ukrainian authorities provided the publication with a database of all phone calls and messages made to Russia from the Buchan region during March. Journalists collected their phone numbers from the relatives of the dead and checked whether these numbers were in the provided database. It was found that the Russian military regularly called the Russian Federation from the phones of the victims, and often did so only a few hours after the killing of civilians.
Journalists also spoke with the occupiers themselves and their relatives. Two confirmed that they were in the 234th regiment and «served in Buch». Regiment commander Artem Horodilov led these operations, and this was confirmed by the Russian military.
The publication emphasizes the presence of other evidence that war crimes in Buch were committed by Russian paratroopers of the 234th regiment. In particular, this is evidenced by the symbols that the enemy troops tried to hide on their equipment left in Bucha, as well as the documentation and personal records of the invaders.
Thus, in one of the records on the paper, the number of the military unit of the Pskov paratroopers is indicated – military unit 74268. In addition, the Russian soldiers left the armbands of the regiment in Buch. Also, the equipment of the 234th regiment was fixed at the places where the victims were shot.
In total, the journalists established the identities of 22 occupiers from the 234th regiment, and also identified the bodies of 36 enemy victims on Yablonska Street.
It cannot be said with certainty that it was these Russian soldiers who killed certain civilians in Buch. However, the presence of the 234th regiment in Ukraine is also evidenced by other information. In particular, it is known that before the invasion of Russia, Horodilov was in Belarus among the Russian military. A commander similar to him was also recorded in Buchi. The man was seen with two bodyguards when he walked the streets of the city near the bodies of the murdered Ukrainians.
Note that after the liberation of Kyiv Oblast, when the world learned about the atrocities of the invaders in Buch, Horodilov and other Russian invaders were awarded the Order of Courage in Russia.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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