By Serhiy Petrov
Kharkiv has been keeping up its defense against the muscovites for 50 days. There’s been a bit less shelling, and the intensity has varied from area to area. There’s a spring spirit in the city: people are cleaning up and making things pretty.
After heavy shelling in various parts of the city last night, the volume of russist shelling has decreased somewhat today, although not in all areas. It was most intense in the morning and in the evening (perhaps the news about the sinking of “Moskva” came to light). It was more or less quiet in the daytime. The muscovites shelled the same areas as before, including different parts of Saltivka (especially its northern part), Selyshche Zhukovskoho, Pyatylhatky, Obriy, the Kharkiv Tractor Plant neighborhood, Novi Budynky, and Oleksiyivka.
In the suburbs, Derhachi, Slatine, and other villages of the Derhachi Hromada were shelled today. The situation there is difficult due to problems with the public utilities, people are gradually evacuating.
Public utilities workers continue to clean up the rubble in the various parts of the city that are relatively safe, wherever such cleaning makes sense. Here in Pivnichna Saltivka it does not make sense, because there’s constantly something getting hit and collapsing. Seriously damaged houses continue to collapse under the influence of wind, rain, and sun.
From time to time, the muscovites fire on the “Dzherelo Neytroniv” (Neutron Source) nuclear facility at Pyatykhatky, but the building is sturdy, so it’s nothing to be worried about.
Flowers are being planted in parks and squares all over the city. Maybe this is not the most important thing right now, but there is hope that by the summer we might be able to at least partially return to a peaceful life. Also today, the hibiscus seedlings that Nadezhda Krupenych from Burshtyn gave to Kharkiv were planted in Freedom Square.
The situation got worse in the broader region today.
Fighting continues in the Izium area and in the Barvinkove direction. In the Izium direction, a column of four support vehicles was destroyed by Ukrainian Special Operations Forces with the support of Ukrainian Armed Forces artillery as a result of a bridge being blown up. A muscovite drone was shot down near Balakliya. Meanwhile, the evacuation of the population from Barvinkove and Lozova continues. In total, more than half of the population has already left these settlements.
Part of the muscovite troops decided to go to Svyatohirsk through Borova, and now there are battles in the Borova area. Muscovites have gone into a part of the Borivka Hromada, and that part is now under occupation. Today, two muscovite helicopters flew into the region shelling the village of Zolochiv, as well as the villages of Odnorobivka and Oleksandrivka of the Zolochiv Hromada. There are damaged and destroyed buildings. In Oleksandrivka two children wounded during the shelling were hospitalized.
Violence and looting by the russist military are flourishing in the occupied Kharkiv region. They take everything they consider valuable out of people’s homes. This is happening in the villages of the Shevchenkivska Hromada.
Also today, the muscovite troops fired upon some parts of the Sumy and Chernihiv regions, particularly the town of Velyka Pisarivka and the outskirts of Horodnya.
The situation in the Joint Forces Operation zone is tense, but the Ukrainian military is holding back the muscovites’ offensive. Fighting continues for Rubizhne and Popasnu, near Severodonetsk. These cities are being shelled. On the southern flank of the Joint Forces Operation zone, battles are taking place in the Vuhledar and Velyka Novosilka area.
After almost a day of struggle to save the cruiser “Moskva,” she has sunk, according to the muscovites’ official version of the events. Two Bayraktar (drones) took part in the distraction operation, while the shitty air defense system failed to detect the two Neptune missiles that hit “Moskva.” This wasn’t just a big ship armed with rockets, including nuclear warheads. It was also a command center for the entire fleet, enabling remote rocket strikes on different targets, long-range radiolocation, long-range air defense for the fleet, and much more. Frigates and corvettes don’t have such electronics. They can only perform tactical or operational missions. Hence, the danger of an attack on Odessa from the sea is basically gone, because an attack without the cruiser would mean opening up the frigates and the corvettes for annihilation, since they don’t have long-range radiolocation capabilities. This is why all russist vessels have quickly pulled away and toward Crimea to hide under the air defense systems of the occupiers. We used two Neptunes to get a big victory and shame for muscovites on the sea! Plus, the name of the sunk vessel is highly symbolic.
I had been dreaming about the sinking of “Moskva” since the mid-2000s. You see, dreams come true!!
The muscovites are apparently looking for a casus belli for a large mobilization, so they can explain to their population why it was announced. Hence the constant incidents happening in the border areas with moscovia. In the evening, there was another bang and a fire in Belhorod. The following areas were shelled during the day: the villages of Zhuravlyovka and Spodaryushino in the Belhorod region, the village of Klimovo, and the territory of the Klimovsk district of the Bryansk region. In all cases, muscovites blamed the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved a resolution appealing to the parliaments and governments of the world to recognize the actions of muscovites on the territory of Ukraine as genocide of the Ukrainian people. In addition, it is now forbidden to use the symbols of the troops invading Ukraine, the symbols of units of the armed forces of muscovy, as well as its authorities.
Today’s Darwin Award goes to the muscovites for collectively refusing to admit that their cruiser “Moskva” had sunk and that the sinking occurred after it was hit by Ukrainian weapons. The muscovite emotions around this are priceless. This really burns over there!
I thank the defense forces of Kharkiv and Ukraine for another day. Let us support volunteers, doctors, rescuers, and public utilities workers. Let us help each other and bring the day of our victory closer!
