By Serhiy Petrov
The day in the city was fairly quiet but emotionally difficult, because many people were killed and wounded during the evening’s shelling of an area that had until now been quiet.
In general, the number of muscovite shellings decreased during the day—undulating in some areas with long breaks in between. These silences, which are a source of stress for many people, are deceptive. People go outside on a relatively warm spring day and get shelled.The muscovites shelled the northern and other parts of Saltivka, Obriy, Rohan, Pyatykhatky, and Oleksiyivka. In the evening they hit the trolleybus depot and residential buildings in the Slobidsky neighborhood. It was a warm evening in a quiet area, people were in their yards. According to the prosecutor’s office, seven are dead and 34 wounded as a result of the shelling; the trolleybus depot and private apartment buildings were damaged as well. The russists are deliberately aiming at civilian infrastructure in order to destroy and inflict maximum damage on already beleaguered citizens.
The shelling by the russist troops was similar in Derhachi and surrounding villages, where three people were killed and seven injured.
Spring has come to the city, and so has the spring cleaning season. Broken trees, branches, and glass, the debris from muscovite shelling, has been removed and windows in apartments that are still livable have been covered with plywood or particle board. I even saw new glass that some people had installed in their windows. Of course, this is happening in relatively quiet areas, where the intensity of shelling is very low to low. Many volunteers help people with cleaning or clearing the rubble. According to the Kharkiv City Council, a survey of roof conditions in relatively safe areas showed that approximately 320 high-rise apartment buildings had roof damage.
Even as daily life continues, as the result of living for more than a month in a state of stress, most people are on edge and their reactions are difficult to predict. All who live in Kharkiv are more or less injured—if not physically, then emotionally and/or mentally—which is why not everyone manages to keep calm, concentrate, and work.
At the same time, the traffic situation is becoming harder to navigate. Previously, at the start of the large-scale russist invasion of Ukraine, nobody gave a damn about traffic rules in the city. While it isn’t a priority now, and the maximum level of traffic on highways is much less than it was before February 24, once the levels do get back up, there will be seriously dangerous situations. It’s just an observation. Some suggest switching on traffic lights on central highways during daylight hours. Over time it might have to be done…
Concerning the broader Kharkiv region, there isn’t much news, but what news there is, it’s not very good in many respects. Fighting continues on the outskirts of Izyum. According to local authorities, about 80% of housing in Izyum was damaged or destroyed as a result of russist shelling and bombing. Muscovites continue to concentrate their units in the area, some of which had withdrawn from other areas and regrouped, while others were transferred from other regions of moscovia .
In better news, our soldiers shot down a muscovite Su-35 fighter jet in the Izyum area. Unlike the Su-34, this aircraft has only one pilot, plus there are characteristic pendants on the wings. The pilot was ejected, caught by our military, and taken prisoner. Great job! We are proud of the Armed Forces!
The attempt to evacuate patients and staff of the Balakliya Hospital, shelled by the muscovites, resulted in new casualties, as russists fired on a convoy of buses. One bus driver (from the village of Andriyivka, Donetsk community) died, and his bus was burned to the ground. It no longer comes as a surprise when another war crime is committed. We are just recording them for the International Court of Justice and the tribunal.
Evacuation is underway in Barvinkove. Lozova city authorities are also organizing special trains to Poltava for the city’s residents due to the constant threat of russist missile strikes on the city. Lozova has also received people who were able to evacuate from Izyum. After yesterday’s missile strike, according to updated data, six people were injured. Electricity has been restored in a portion of the city. Restoration work is underway to complete providing the city with electricity and water.
The battle for Rubizhne continues. Muscovites have fired upon a hospital there. It’s a familiar story: whenever the russists cannot take a city, they start aiming for hospitals—which under different circumstances (together with schools and kindergartens) are used as their headquarters and bases. The Muscovites are also moving away from Sumy, gradually reducing their presence near Chernihiv. Chernihiv is open and humanitarian aid for residents has arrived. According to the mayor of Chernihiv, about 70% of the city’s buildings are damaged or destroyed. Two more major battles for key Ukrainian troops are coming to an end.
Yesterday the Ukrainian flag was raised and the national anthem of Ukraine was sung at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant. Today the Armed Forces of Ukraine took control of the city of Pripyat and reached the border of Ukraine with Belarus—or more precisely the BSSR or the Belarusian Federal District (translator’s note: the author is mocking Belarus here, referring to it as one of the districts of Russia). One of the biggest battles during the large-scale muscovite invasion of Ukraine, the battle of Kyiv, is ending. Fighting and clearing continue on the route to Vilcha.
The heroes of this battle are Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, the general staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including Poroshenko’s former Commander-in-Chief Viktor Muzhenko, Commander of the Defense of Kyiv, Commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky, as well as the officers and the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, Territorial Defense, and all other units of Ukraine’s defense force. They won this battle and are the rightful heroes, not the likes of (Oleksiy) Arestovich and other media-hyped characters! Glory to the defenders of Kyiv!
The occupiers are taking their damaged equipment in gondola cars out of Gomel, in the Belarusian Federal District, to hide from prying eyes the real state of affairs and the amount of damaged military equipment.
Muscovites retreated after failing to achieve their goals due to the fierce resistance of the Ukrainian military, significant losses in equipment (muscovites do not count people as losses), losses among their highest-level units, and complicated logistics, which prevents further offensive in all directions. In order to capture the entire Donbass region and hold the newly occupied territories of Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson regions, the russists have relocated their troops to the east and southeast of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the muscovites continue to launch missile strikes specifically on fuel storage and oil depots, food warehouses, and critical infrastructure in Ukrainian cities like Odessa, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Ternopil, Vasylkiv, and also near Kyiv. Dutch journalist Dulmers Robert Edwin Luich Mare, who shared a video of a fire at an oil refinery in Odessa, was detained by the Security Service of Ukraine and deported out of the country with a three-year ban on re-entry! Absolutely the right decision! There are clear rules and restrictions (with which foreign journalists are familiar) for presenting and covering information when obtaining accreditation. For example, restrictions were imposed on a CNN group, which showed live the consequences of the missile strike on Lviv, even after the fact.
In Kakhovka, the occupiers used machine guns to disperse a peaceful pro-Ukrainian action. Some of these patriotic Ukrainians have been wounded and/or detained. Thank you for resisting, Kakhovchane (residents of Kakhovka)!
“The Bucha Massacre.” That is what Western politicians are calling the russist war crimes—murder, rape, torture, and violence against civilians—in the suburbs of Kyiv. It is so difficult to watch this footage even with one’s empathy lowered, knowing that these cannibal russists are ready for anything, ready to commit any violence against civilians. The mobile crematoriums that muscovites brought to our borders were not for the disposal of muscovite troops, but for us—to destroy those who would resist and protest against the occupying forces and the authorities. Basically, they came for the entire population of Ukraine.
The russists committed genocide in Chechnya. Now they are committing genocide in Ukraine, which is yet another attempted genocide after the Holodomor, forced deportations from western Ukraine, the occupation of these territories by muscovites in 1939, and the reoccupation of Ukraine in 1944. They intentionally eliminate Ukrainians as an ethnic group and the whole civilized world should know that! All facts must be recorded, documented and presented, no matter how horrific the footage and stories are, in order to help law enforcement agencies that clearly do not have enough resources to investigate the scale and number of these crimes being committed against humanity.
In addition, the muscovites killed a large number of animals in the areas from which they are retreating—in Velyka Dymerka, Kyiv region, almost all dogs were killed, their corpses lying on the streets. Also in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, more than 300 animals died in an animal shelter. Russism is an ideology that supports the extermination of all living creatures!
In the meantime, the InformNapalm group has already begun gathering information on the russist military commands and units that committed war crimes in the Kyiv region, especially in Irpin and Bucha.
Some of the forcibly deported citizens from Mariupol and the occupied districts of Kharkiv and Kherson regions were able to reach the border with Estonia on their own and cross over!
Above Tomarovka, in Belhorod region, there was a loud clap-like sound followed by fragments of something falling from the sky. The area was cordoned off and no details were disclosed. This region of mosovia seems to be quite restless…
There will be no Darwin Award today, because the muscovites have done nothing stupid.
They are now mostly fleeing from northern Ukraine.
Thank you to our defenders for another day! Let us help the military, support each other emotionally, and trust in Ukraine and the armed forces!
