7 July Summary: Ukraine needs air defense. Johnson’s resignation

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Situation summary of war in Ukraine by region for Thursday, July 7, 2022.

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By Pavlo Vitenko

Summary by regions

Luhansk Region

In the Bakhmut direction (the positions to which our military retreated), the enemy is trying to improve the tactical position and establish complete control over the Bakhmut-Lysychansk road. He carried out artillery shelling in the areas of Spirne, Vyimka and Vesele. There is no success. The third «people’s mayor» was introduced in Severodonetsk – this time he was Mykola Morgunov, the former mayor of Bryanka during Yanukovych’s time, as well as the «LPR». Men in the occupied territories are allegedly invited to work, served with summonses and sent to defend the «new homeland».

Donetsk Region

During the day – shelling from artillery, S-300 air defense systems, «Uragan» anti-aircraft missile defense system, «Hrad» anti-aircraft missile defense system on populated areas and cities of the region: Avdiivka (residential sector, railway station area); Bakhmut (housing sector, garages, school, railway technical school, hospital, social service center, transformer); Krasnohorivka (agrarian technical school); Toretsk (residential sector, station of young technicians); village Zhelanne, village Vesela Dolyna, village Karlivka, village Lastochkine – two, p. Netaylove, village Pervomaiske, village Nightingale 35 objects were damaged. 7 civilians were killed (including a child), two people were injured.

Sumy Region 

The night passed relatively peacefully. Last day, the enemy shelled the Myropil, Krasnopillia and Khotyn communities several times. Throughout the day, the Russians opened fire from machine guns and various small arms throughout the Yunakiv community.

Rockets were fired at the Shalyginsk community. The enemy also shelled the Esman community with mortars. As a result of shelling from barrel artillery and MLRS on Novosloboda and Bilopilsk communities in one of the border villages, an administrative building, an educational institution, and a private house were damaged.

Kharkiv Region

At night, the occupiers attacked a boarding school in the city. As a result of the explosions, windows were broken. There are no victims or injured.

During the night in the region, in the Chuhuiv district, Slobozhansk territory, coniferous litter caught fire on an area of ​​2 ha. According to preliminary data, the fire occurred after the fall of a downed rocket. In general, during the day, 1 person was injured in the region

(Slatine village), two people died (Kharkiv and Kharkiv district)

Dnipropetrovsk Region

Russian troops again shelled the Kryvyi Rih district. The Zelenodolsk community, three settlements came under attack. The village of Maryanske is partially without electricity due to shelling. People were not injured. The previous evening, the enemy shelled Synelnykiv district with anti-aircraft missiles. Three people were injured in the Pokrovsk community, one of the injured is in serious condition.

Mykolayiv Region

Shelling of villages along the demarcation line in the Berezneguvat community. Information on casualties and damage is being clarified.

This morning, the town of Ochakiv came under fire. There are no victims. Information about the consequences is being clarified. Yesterday, shelling was recorded in the Pervomaisk community, as a result of which dry land and grain fields were set on fire, and residential buildings were damaged.

Also yesterday, the occupiers shelled the village. Lymany of the Halytsyn community with the Grad rocket salvo system and 122-caliber artillery. There are no victims.

After enemy shelling in the evening, a fire broke out in a field with barley and dry grass in the village of Shevchenkove.

Kherson Region

Explosions, fires in forests, fields and villages, shelling of houses and mines, destruction of social and infrastructure facilities – such reports are given today by residents of almost the entire region. The occupiers do not allow fires, so farmers and peasants try to do it on their own. In many settlements, there is no water and electricity for the fifth month, so it becomes difficult to extinguish fires. Stable critical situation.

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Zelenskyi met with US senators

On July 7, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi met with two US senators – Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal.

The President and American officials discussed the supply of weapons to Ukraine to counter Russian aggression.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this on social networks.

«Now the first priority is that by September 1, women and children can return home, and children and students can go to schools and universities. We count on the support of Congress in the matter of supplying modern air defense systems. We must ensure such a level of security in the skies that our people were not afraid to live in Ukraine,» the president said.

By Pavlo Vitenko, Ukrainian Freedom News

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