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By Pavlo Vitenko
Summary by regions
Donetsk Region
Shelling continues along the entire front line from small arms, tanks, artillery, mortars, MLRS «Hrad»; there are missile strikes. Avdiivka, Slovyansk, Druzhkivka, the village of New York, Chasiv Yar, Bakhmut, and Kramatorsk are under fire.
The shelling damaged 20 buildings, including residential and industrial buildings. Two civilians were killed. The evacuation of the population continues.
Luhansk Region
Ukrainian Armed Forces in Severodonetsk were repulsed and now are defending the industrial zone and a neighbouring living quarter. The situation is very dynamic, and there was a moment when Ukrainian army regained control over half of the city, but everything is changing rapidly. Fierce street fights continue, many wounded soldiers. In Lysychansk, the Russians fired on a bakery that baked bread for the townspeople until the very end.
Several government buildings and two high-rise buildings were also damaged. More serious destruction in the Mountain community: 16 houses in the Zolote, three – in the Hirske. Also, six houses were destroyed in Vrubivka. One person died. Yesterday 98 citizens were evacuated.
Kharkiv Region
In the evening and at night, the occupiers fired on residential areas on the outskirts of Kharkiv, including Saltivka. According to preliminary data, no one was injured. Blyzniuky, Pervomaiske and Slobozhanske were shelled at night.
During the day, the Russians fired on the Izyum district, Chuhuiv and Kharkiv districts in the region. In total in the area for days 10 wounded, 3 dead.
Mykolayiv Region
At night one of the areas of Mykolayiv suffered artillery attacks – there was damage to a private house.
At night, as a result of enemy ammunition and their debris entering the village of Luparevo in the Halytsyn community, a fire broke out in an outbuilding and dry grass in the open.
Kherson Region
The situation in the region is critical in all areas: lack of mobile and Internet connection, provisions, medicines and cash. Locals report mining. As a result of mining on the shores of the sea, in particular in Lazurne, a Russian mine exploded three locals – all died.
Fighting continues on the border of oblasts and in Beryslav district. There, the enemy wants to regain lost ground and is shelling villages. The critical situation is on the territory of Kalyniv and Velykooleksandrivska communities.
Patriotic Ukrainian inscriptions are appearing more and more in Kherson, locals are removing flags of the aggressor’s country from institutions.
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It does not matter where they are located – in Ukraine or Russia
What matters is not what missiles are supplied to Ukraine, but for what purposes they will be used, because Russian artillery firing on Ukrainian positions from the territory of the Russian Federation is a justified target for destruction.
This was stated by the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Vice President of the United States Institute of Peace William Taylor, Ukrinform reports.
«If we are talking about Russian military units firing on the Ukrainian side, these are the goals. It doesn’t matter where they are located – in Ukraine or Russia, «the former US ambassador to Ukraine said.
In such a situation, Russian artillery firing from the territory of the Russian Federation will be quite justified targets for destruction.
By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News
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