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By Pavlo Vitenko
Summary by regions
Luhansk Region
Over the past night, the Russians fired 14 rockets at populated areas and Ukrainian military fortifications, carried out seven shellings from barrel and rocket artillery, and aviation was used more than once. During the day, enemy attacks from four directions were repulsed – everywhere the enemy was forced to retreat with significant losses.
Donetsk Region
At night and in the morning, Slovyansk was shelled (a private house burned down). Shelling of the town of Hirnyk (at least six high-rise buildings and three private houses were damaged). There was no information about the dead and wounded. The survey of the territory is underway.
Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Kostiantynopil, Chasiv Yar, Klishchiivka, Maksimilianivka were shelled during the day. Eight residential buildings, the premises of Avdiivka Coke Plant, a car, economic and industrial buildings were damaged. Over the past day, one person died and seven were injured. The region remains without gas and partly without water and electricity.
Kharkiv Region
A fire broke out at the Shevchenko plant in Kharkiv. A workshop for the production of pallets caught fire, the area of the fire was 3,000 m². 16 branches of the State Emergency Service involved 90 people. No shelling of the city and region at night was recorded. As a result of shelling in the Chuhuiv and Izyum districts of the past day, two civilians were injured.
Dnipropetrovsk Region
The enemy shelled two districts of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol. In the Zelenodolsk community, one woman died, one was injured, in the hospital. In the Nikopol district, the enemy shelled Marhanets and Chervonohryhorivka communities. Two people were injured in Marhanets. There was destruction of housing and communications.
Up to 10 houses and a power line were damaged in Chervonohryhorivka. No casualties.
Mykolayiv Region
At night there was shelling near the village Shyroke. Around 05:30 there was shelling outside the villages of Polyana, Chervona Dolyna, and Shyroke. There are no casualties. Settlements of the Berezneguvate community, located on the demarcation line, remain under constant fire. Tonight at 02:08 there was shelling of Berezneguvate. Due to the fall of ammunition and their fragments, the hay caught fire. Yesterday from 19:00 to midnight – shelling of the outskirts of the village Nova Oleksandrivka. There are no casualties.
Kherson Region
Despite the fact that the Russian army continues to conduct combat operations on the occupied borders and try to conduct reconnaissance with unmanned aerial vehicles, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to deliver well-aimed blows to the occupiers. As a result of the fighting, there are many fires in the Kherson region. The situation remains critical in the Kakhovka and Beryslav districts, where people are forced to put out fires on their own, because the occupiers do not always give permission for rescuers to arrive. The referendum and the new school year remain the number one topics for the occupiers. Local collaborators continue to travel around the communities of the region and hold meetings with people and campaign for joining Russia.
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«Crimea is Ukraine»: Erdogan believes that Russia should return the occupied peninsula
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke at the meeting of the «Crimean Platform».
He emphasized that Turkey supports the return of the annexed Crimea to Ukraine.
Erdogan said this during his speech at the Crimean Platform.
«We will support the efforts of the platform at all levels. We consider the seizure of Crimea illegal. This is our principled position. International law requires that Crimea be returned to Ukraine. This is critically important for the entire region and the global security system,» Erdogan emphasized.
The President of Turkey emphasized that Crimea is the homeland of the Crimean Tatars, who are citizens of Ukraine.
«The Crimean Tatars have suffered for their history and are fighting for a peaceful life in their homeland,» Erdogan said.
The President of Turkey said that Russia’s war against Ukraine should end with a just peace – preserving the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Erdogan emphasized that Turkey is making efforts to end the war.
«We will continue to make efforts to establish peace. I once again highlight our support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine – including Crimea. Crimea is Ukraine! It must be part of Ukraine,» Erdogan said.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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