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By Pavlo Vitenko
Summary by regions
Donetsk Region
Shelling along the entire line. There is significant damage due to the shelling in Avdiivka: at least 20 houses and a school were damaged. The occupiers are constantly shelling positions around the village of Vozdvyzhenka and the village of Myronivka (Svitlodar community), and the bridge near the village of Luhanske has been destroyed. Detailed information on the consequences and victims is being established.
Luhansk Region
The Russians again tried to storm Severodonetsk, were unsuccessful and retreated. In total, 19 settlements were shelled during the day, damaging or destroying 70 housing facilities: in Lysychansk, Novodruzhesk, Zolote, Nyrkovo, Mykolayivka, Katerynivka, Hirske, as well as in Severodonetsk.
One person died, in addition, a girl from Privilege died in a hospital in Dnipro on April 7. There are two civilians wounded.
Mykolayiv Region
At night, occupiers fired at Nikolaev from the MLRS «Tornado». Information on damaged objects and victims is being clarified. The Shyrokiv community also suffered from the shelling again: the Russians hit outbuildings, one apartment building was destroyed, however, no one was injured.
Dnipropetrovsk Region
There was an air alarm all night. The occupiers twice fired hurricanes at the Apostolic Community, but hit between the settlements and did not affect people. Information on the consequences of the shelling is being clarified.
Kherson Region
The occupiers continue to fire on the occupied settlements and destroy social facilities and houses of civilians. Critical condition in the villages of Oleksandrivka and Osokorivka – almost every yard there is damaged. There are dead and injured.
In Bilozerka, 10 houses were partially destroyed by cluster shelling, and three people died. The number of injured is unknown. The difficult situation in the villages of Beryslav and Kakhovka districts. The region as a whole is in critical condition.
Zhytomyr Region
In Korosten at night, the wreckage of a downed rocket damaged three houses, and another missile damaged an industrial facility. There are currently no casualties. Detailed information is being clarified.
Sumy Region
At night, the occupiers fired from their territory on the outskirts of Bilopillya. Information on casualties, losses and destruction is currently being clarified.
Kharkiv Region
The night in Kharkiv passed with alarms and isolated shelling. Two wounded per day. Circuses were fired upon in the region, there were also two wounded. The city of Pervomaisk (one wounded there) was also shelled, and another person was injured in Balakliia. The Chuhuiv district was also shelled at night: private houses, a shop and a cafe were on fire, but no one was injured. Details are being clarified.
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Medvedchuk testified against Poroshenko
Victor Medvedchuk, who is suspected of treason and aiding terrorism, spoke about the scheme of withdrawal from state ownership of part of the main oil pipeline «Samara – Western direction» for further pumping of diesel fuel through it.
Medvedchuk detailed the role of former President Petro Poroshenko in it. According to Putin’s godfather, the former president not only asked Medvedchuk to contact the Russian leadership, but also ensured that the necessary decisions were made in all Ukrainian instances.
Thus, the detainee assures that he was engaged in questions of the pipeline at the request of the ex-president, reports the Security Service of Ukraine. And finally, in a year of operation, the pipeline has earned twice as much money for its owners than was invested in its purchase – up to 42 million US dollars. And from May 2019, i.e. after the termination of Poroshenko’s powers, the pumping of diesel through the highway stopped.
Medvedchuk told the details of the establishment in 2014-2015 of a mechanism for purchasing coal for the energy needs of Ukraine in the temporarily occupied territories of the so-called «L / DPR», practically from the leaders of the militants.
«In fact, the entire top of the state apparatus was involved, from the president to ministers, law enforcement officers and those who directly implemented this scheme,» – the detainee explained.
He also mentioned the specific names of high-ranking officials involved in harming the interests of our state: former government officials, executives of the National Bank, MPs and law enforcement officials, the intelligence service said.
The Security Service continues investigative actions with the detainee to establish all the facts, circumstances, organizers and participants in the crimes committed.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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