Donetsk region / Photo: National Police
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By Pavlo Vitenko
Today is Independence Day of Ukraine:
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Summary by regions
Luhansk Region
At the front, the night was restless today. Settlements and fortifications of Ukrainian troops on the border of Luhansk region and Donetsk region withstood three missile strikes and one air attack. The Russians fired 13 times with barrel artillery, and another 17 times with rocket launchers. Mortars were used five times. Six times the Russians were forced to retreat when they tried to attack.
Donetsk Region
At night – a rocket attack on Slovyansk, shelling of Maryinka, Krasnohorivka, Heorhiivka. One person died and two were injured in a day. Avdiivka, Toretsk, Krasnohorivka, Karlivka, Pivnichne, Nelipivka were shelled. Seven private residential buildings, one high-rise building, power lines, and the administration building of the pedagogic college were damaged. The region remains without gas and partly without water and electricity.
Kharkiv Region
Shelling of Kharkiv yesterday afternoon and late evening. Most of the hits were in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv, but there were also «arrivals» in the Novobavarskyi district. In particular, in the Shevchenkivskyi district, a 3-story building caught fire as a result of shelling: about 100 rescuers extinguished the fire.
Day and night shelling of the Kharkiv, Chuhuiv and Bohodukhiv districts. Five civilians were injured.
Dnipropetrovsk Region
The Russians shelled three districts. Two rockets landed in Dnipro. There was a fire. Extinguished Information about the victims is being clarified. Nikopol was fired upon four times during the night. Two people were injured in Marhanets. Several houses were destroyed, and more than 10 were damaged. There is destruction of housing in Nikopol. No casualties.
Karpivka and Shyroke communities were shelled in Kryvyi Rih district. In the village of Koshove, the power grid was damaged. No victims.
Mykolayiv Region
Yesterday evening and throughout the night, there was shelling outside the settlements on the territory of the Shyroke community. There are no casualties. Tonight there were shellings in the district of the Bashtan community. There are damaged houses. The number of destructions is being specified. According to preliminary information, there are no victims. Shelling of the territory and nearby settlements of the Berezneguvate community continues. The village of Vysunsk came under fire.
Tonight – shelling of Berezneguvate. A fire broke out, as a result of which two two-story residential buildings were destroyed. Information about the victims is being clarified. In the morning – shelling of Novy Buh. It is known that a fire broke out due to shelling, as a result of which a two-story residential building was destroyed. According to preliminary information, nine people were injured, two of them children. Services are working to eliminate the consequences of a missile attack.
Kherson Region
Residents of Kherson Oblast were able to demonstrate their pro-Ukrainian position on Ukrainian Flag Day. In particular, greeting cards from the «People’s Resistance of Ukraine» appeared in Tavriysk, Kakhovka, and Nova Kakhovka. In Kherson, one of the monuments was wrapped in the flag of Ukraine. The pressure on the residents of the region is increasing every day. Currently, the Main Directorate of Intelligence has published a manual for agitators in the temporarily occupied territories, who must convince local residents that the Russian military are not murderers and looters.
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The occupiers kidnap Ukrainian children and adopt them into Russian families for prizes – ISW
Russia abducts Ukrainian children from the occupied territories of Ukraine.
After that, they are adopted among Russian families. In particular, such a program was reported in the Department of Family and Childhood Affairs of the subject of Russia, Krasnodar Territory.
This is stated in a new report of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
It is noted that the Russian authorities transported more than a thousand Ukrainian children from Mariupol to Tyumen, Irkutsk, Kemerovo and Altai regions, where they were adopted by Russian families.
«The administration stated that more than 300 children are still waiting to «meet their new families», and citizens who decide to adopt these children will receive a one-time bonus from the state,» the message writes.
In turn, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported that Russian officials had transported 30 Ukrainian children from Khartsyzk, Ilovaisk and Zugres in the occupied Donetsk region to Nizhny Novgorod. They allegedly participate in youth educational programs.
American analysts emphasize: the forced transfer of children «with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group» is a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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