The results of the Russian invasion in the Luhansk region
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By Pavlo Vitenko
Summary by regions
Sumy Region
Late in the evening on June 8, mortars and artillery were fired upon at the Shalyhyn border community. There are no casualties or destruction of civilian infrastructure. The rest of the night passed quietly.
Zhytomyr Region
There was a rocket attack at night, as a result of which buildings were damaged. No casualties.
Luhansk Region
Severodonetsk is at the epicenter of events. In the evening of June 8, the occupiers aimed twice at the Azot enterprise. At least two shops in different parts of the plant were damaged, one of which was an ammonia plant.
No chemical emissions occurred. The owner of the enterprise assured that all fertilizers and chemicals were taken out of the plant on the second day of the war. The bomb shelter survived, no casualties were reported.
Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Privillya, Orikhove, Ustynivka, Hirske, Katerynivka, Belohorovka, Mykolayivka, Komyshuvakha and Pavlohrad near Severodonetsk were fired at with mortars, artillery and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. The occupiers launched an air strike in Toshkivka.
For the past 24hrs, 4 people have been killed and 5 injured in the region.
Donetsk Region
Active hostilities continue along the entire line of contact. They fired missiles at Bakhmut, Kurakhov and Shchurovo. Heavy artillery fired on Avdiivka, Maryinka and Krasnohorivka.
Four people were killed and 11 others were injured in one day. The evacuation of people from the controlled part of the region continues.
The region remains without gas, partly without water and electricity. Toretsk was added to more than 330 settlements where there is no electricity supply: a 110 kW line was damaged during the shelling.
Kharkiv Region
As a result of night shelling from the rocket-propelled grenade launcher system in the Novobavarskyi district of Kharkiv, fires broke out in a cafe, shop and school library. The school was partially damaged. Earlier, two people were killed and four were injured.
Chuhuiv, Bohodukhiv and Izyum districts were shelled in the region.
Fire due to shelling in Kharkiv
Dnipropetrovsk Region
The Zelenodolsk community was shelled again with artillery. There are damaged houses. People were not injured.
Mykolayiv Region
There were shellings in the Inghul community at night, mostly outside the settlements. No one was injured.
The shelling continues in the Bereznehuvatskyi community. One person died. Damaged houses. The Kutsurub community was also shelled at night, as a result of which the power line in the village of Prybuzke was damaged.
Kherson Region
The situation remains tense. Loud explosions during the day and night were heard in Kherson and its suburbs. There is no mobile and internet connection in Kherson and a number of communities for more than a week. There are problems with cash withdrawals, including pensions.
Instead, the occupation authorities are announcing the launch of their Internet, which will block access to Ukrainian sites. In Kherson and large cities, information began to appear that the occupiers were transporting their families to the cities.
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«Severedonetsk is Ukrainian. The Armed Forces of Ukraine control the industrial zone and the surrounding neighborhoods. The defense is built. The city is holding on. The night was quite difficult – under heavy artillery fire,» Haidai said.
Damaged shops of Azot
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The Ukrainian blogger blew up the Web with a funny parody of Stefania: the reaction of the Kalush Orchestra
The song Kalush Orchestra Stefania, with which the band won the «Eurovision-2022», became popular not only in Ukraine but also abroad.
Many artists sing it and make parodies. In particular, the famous blogger Dmytro Varvaruk simply blew up the Web with his funny version of the hit. On YouTube, where the celebrity published the video, the parody garnered more than 650,000 views.
In the parody, Dmytro sings about his grandmother, who told him about the difficult fate of the Ukrainian language. At the same time, in the video, the blogger showed in a funny way how his family is fighting the Russian occupier, accompanied by the words: «Evdokia, babo. Babo, Evdokia. Sowing the field, and Russia is smoldering.»
«This video is dedicated to my grandmother. Oksana just doesn’t rhyme in the song. She raised me as a child when my parents were abroad. My grandmother told me about the difficult fate of the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian language, and despite all the prohibitions, she sang with my grandfather. Ukrainian songs, « Dmytro shared.
By the way, the Kalush Orchestra has already watched the parody of the song. The leader of the band Oleh Psyuk could not pass by and noted that Dmytro should go to Eurovision next year.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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