Dnipropetrovsk region / Photo: TSN
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By Pavlo Vitenko
Summary by regions
Luhansk Region
Over the past night, the enemy fired four shots from barrel artillery, eight times rocket systems of volley fire were used, eight more – mortars.
On August 25, the Russians carried out airstrikes near four populated areas. Enemy attacks were repeatedly repelled from four directions.
Donetsk Region
At night, the city of Mykolayivka was shelled (a school and at least five buildings were damaged), Siverska (five high-rise buildings were damaged).
In the morning – shelling of Slovyansk, hitting the building of the Chemical and Mechanical Technical School. During the day, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar, Siversk, Maksimilianivka, Zelenopillia, Andriivka were shelled. Over the past day, two people were killed and seven were injured in the region.
Kharkiv Region
At night – shelling of Chuhuiv, Bohodukhiv and Kharkiv districts. In particular, the building of one of the institutions of vocational and technical education was destroyed, private and commercial buildings, and a warehouse burned down. Three civilians were injured, one person died.
Chernihiv Region
At night, there was one shelling, near the village of Senkivka, previously from mortars. Without victims and destruction.
Sumy Region
This morning, under heavy fire from the «Hrad» of the territory of the Velyka Pysarivka community, there was also mortar shelling. The consequences are currently unknown. The information is being clarified.
Dnipropetrovsk Region
The Nikopol, Synelnykove and Kryvyi Rih districts were shelled. In Nikopol, houses, a school and a sanatorium were damaged. Broken power line. Up to a thousand people without electricity. No one was hurt.
In Marhanets and Chervonohryhorivka communities, there were no casualties or damage. In the Synelniky district, rockets landed in two communities. An agricultural enterprise was damaged in one, and a road enterprise in the other. Details are being clarified.
In the Kryvyi Rih district, the Zelenodolsk and Shyroke communities were hit. There is destruction, people were not affected.
Mykolayiv Region
At night there were explosions in Mykolayiv. Information about the consequences is being clarified. Yesterday evening and this morning, the villages of Shyroke and Chervona Dolyna were shelled. The hits were mainly outside the settlements; two agricultural buildings of households were damaged. There are no casualties. Shelling of the territory and nearby settlements of the Berezneguvate community continues.
Kherson Region
Yesterday half of the day, the entire territory of the Kherson region was without electricity and water supply, light and water appeared closer to the evening. According to preliminary information from Khersonoblenergo, the occupiers disconnected two 750 kilovolt lines from Zaporizhzhia NPP, which supply the entire Kherson region.
In general, the situation is difficult. The troops of the Russian Federation are shelling the positions of the Armed Forces and civilian infrastructure from tanks, barrel and rocket artillery. They also continue to carry out airstrikes in Beryslav district. There were reports of explosions in Kakhovka and Chaplinka; residents of Oleshok reported a fire in the forest.
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Buried in the yard: in the Kherson region, the occupiers shot a couple
In Arkhanhelske in the Kherson region, the Russian military shot the Pavlenko couple – Larysa and Valentyn.
The reasons and circumstances of the murder are being investigated by the police. The couple was buried in the yard of their house, due to the impossibility of doing it in the cemetery.
«Suspilne» writes about it.
As Oleksandr Teterya, the son of the victims, said, the father and his wife hid in their basement from the explosions. Neighbors found them shot there.
«Yesterday, the neighbors called and said that they didn’t see the parents doing household chores. They went to look and found them shot in the basement. No one knows what happened there. The only thing that is known is that the father was shot in the head and his wife was also shot.», – said Oleksandr Teterya.
According to residents who remained in Arkhanhelske, Russian soldiers were walking the streets – checking and looking for something.
«The Russian military had a rotation and more aggressive ones came in. Apparently, these Russian military were near Kyiv. Their uniforms don’t have a Z, as it used to, but a V,» the man added.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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