Toretsk, Donetsk region / Photo: 24 Channel
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By Pavlo Vitenko
Summary by regions
Luhansk Region
During the past day, the enemy fired three rockets, used barrel artillery five times, and five more – rockets.
The enemy’s attacks were supported by mortar and tank fire. In the areas of eight settlements, the Russians bombed from the air.
Violent mobilization continues in the temporarily occupied territories. According to available information, the Russians sent about 80 men to the front in Starobilsk alone this week.
Donetsk Region
In the morning, Maryinka and Krasnohorivka were shelled intensively. Shelling of the central part of Avdiivka.
Fighting in the area of the village of Pisky lasted almost all night. At night – a rocket attack and artillery shelling of a support school in the village of Ocheretyne.
Settlements that came under fire during the past day: Avdiivka (residential sector, camping site, administration building); Bakhmut (housing sector); Siversk (housing sector); Chasiv Yar (field); Soledar (housing sector); residential sectors in the villages of Shevchenko, Lastochkina, Bakhmutske, Georgiivka.
The region remains without gas and partly without water and electricity. Evacuation of the population continues. 3rd day – three dead and five wounded in the region.
Sumy Region
This morning – mortar shelling of the communities of Putivlska and Krasnopillia. In advance, without losses and destruction.
Over the past day, the Russians have carried out six shellings of the border communities of Krasnopillia, Myropillia and Yunakiv regions.
Kharkiv Region
At night, 4 rocket launches (probably S-300 air defense systems) were recorded from the direction of Belgorod in the direction of Kharkiv. Two rockets hit an industrial facility in the Nemyshlyanskyi district. Two more – previously, in the Industrial district. Data on the consequences are being investigated. There are no casualties.
The Chuhuiv, Kharkiv, and Izyum districts were shelled across the region.
A five-story residential building was hit in the city of Chuhuiv. In the Kharkiv district, there were several hits on the territory of private households.
During the day, four civilians were hospitalized in the region, and one person died.
Dnipropetrovsk Region
The enemy shelled two districts – Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih – from Hrad. Previously, there were no casualties. One house was destroyed, and almost 50 were damaged. Buildings and vehicles were damaged at three local businesses. In the city, the power line has been cut. Several thousand people of Nikopol are without electricity.
In the Kryvyi Rih district, the enemy hit two communities – Shyroke and Karpivka – with «Hurricanes». There is destruction of housing in Shyroke. The injured woman was treated.
Zaporizhzhia Region
At night, there were flights in the regional center and in the Zaporizhzhia district. Information about the consequences is currently being clarified
Mykolayiv Region
Today around 04:00 and after 06:00 powerful explosions were heard in Mykolayiv. Two districts of the city came under fire.
According to preliminary information, residential buildings were damaged, and as a result of the fall of ammunition and their debris, a fire broke out. Previously, without victims and victims. Detailed information on the consequences of shelling is being clarified.
The village was also shelled tonight. Yavkine of the Bashtan community. No victims beforehand. There are no significant damages.
Kherson Region
The situation remains tense, during the day fighting took place on the territory of the region, explosions were heard in almost all communities.
In the Kochubeyivka community, two local residents were injured as a result of shelling by the Russians. Almost every day there are wounded in other communities of the Beryslav district. Most of the occupied villages were significantly damaged, and the liberated villages were practically destroyed.
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This is not a regiment, but a structural unit of the National Guard of Ukraine – the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
The Supreme Court of Russia satisfied the lawsuit of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation to recognize the Ukrainian regiment «Azov» as a «terrorist organization» and ban its activities in the Russian Federation.
When deciding on the recognition of «Azov» as an alleged terrorist organization, the Supreme Court of Russia did not understand that it was a structural unit of the National Guard.
This was announced by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
«Through its own narratives and propaganda in its and foreign media, Russia seeks to make Azov a so-called «neo-Nazi regiment». For this, it constantly invents and spreads various terrible stories about its activities, creates a bloody image of its soldiers in order to intimidate people in Russia and the world, and its destruction is one of the goals of the war. After the terrible execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Olenivka, Russia is looking for new pretexts and justifications for its war crimes,» the message reads.
It was emphasized there that the separate special purpose unit «Azov» is part of the 12th operational brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. This is not a separate «regiment» – but a structural unit within the National Guard of Ukraine – a military formation under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was created and legally operates in the state and today continues to perform combat tasks for the defense of Ukraine.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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