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By Pavlo Vitenko
Summary by regions
Donetsk Region
Shelling along the entire front line. During the day, 4 civilians were killed and another 12 were injured. In Mariinka, the occupiers used incendiary shells, the scale of the fires is being clarified. The evacuation of the population from the front zone continues.
Luhansk Region
The occupiers are trying to storm Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. During the past 24hrs, 27 houses in Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Pryvillia, Novodruzhesk and Hirske were destroyed in the region. The building of the Impulse enterprise in Severodonetsk, the house of culture and the Territorial subdivision of the Administrative Service Center in Lysychansk were also destroyed.
As a result of the shelling, two people died in Ustynivka and one in Lysychansk.
Mykolayiv Region
On May 25 fired at the Mykolayiv region. As a result of the shelling of the village of Solonchaky, Kutsurubska community, 4 objects of social and administrative infrastructure were damaged. One person was injured. A man died in the village of Pervomaiske.
As a result of the shelling of the village of Kotlyareve in the Shevchenkivska community, a shop and a house with outbuildings were damaged.
The Shyrokiv community was shelled again. There are damaged and destroyed houses. There are no victims. There were shellings day and night in the Bereznehuvatsky community: one was killed and one was wounded.
Dnipropetrovsk Region
At midnight on May 26, Russian troops fired artillery at the Apostolic Community of the Kryvyi Rih district, leaving no injuries. In the morning there was an alarm in the region.
Khmelnytskyi Region
In the evening of May 25, air defense forces shot down a rocket of occupiers over Khmelnytsky region. The wreckage fell in the field, no casualties or damage.
Kharkiv Region
The night in Kharkiv passed with single shellings, no one was injured. During the day, the occupiers fired on BalaklIia: 8 people were wounded, including a child. Two people died.
Tsyrkuny and Slobozhanske of Chuhuiv district were also shelled: two people were injured.
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The head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said that during the defense of Mariupol, 16 Mi-8 military helicopters flew to the defenders to the Azovstal plant with their help.
Once 72 soldiers of the Azov Regiment went to Mariupol on board such a helicopter.
Budanov told the American military publication The War Zone.
He said that the special operation was developed by specialists of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. There were a total of seven such missions.
He added that two helicopters flew in each mission to deliver food, drinking water, medicine and ammunition to the Azovstal military. However, during one of these missions, four helicopters took off at once.
During one of the missions, 72 soldiers from the Azov National Guard regiment were brought on board the helicopter, reinforcing the unit already on Azovstal. However, Budanov refused to specify when the flights of these helicopters took place and the number of casualties among the Ukrainian military.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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