By Serhiy Petrov
There was more muscovite shelling today compared to Sunday, but if compared to the days of the hot phase, it was still a more or less quiet day. The intensity of the shelling varied in different areas. The amount of attacks in the suburban area is growing (especially in the settlements of Derhachi, Malodanilivska, and Zolochivska hromadas). Fierce fighting continues in the southeast of the oblast.
The most active shelling came at night and in the morning. There wasn’t too much shelling in the daytime, and only in the evening came a slight intensification. Pivnichna Saltivka and other districts of Saltivka were shelled the most. Pyatykhatky, Oleksiyivka, the Kharkiv Tractor Plant neighborhood, and Novi Budynky were shelled to a lesser extent. However, even in this mode of relative calm, residential buildings were destroyed or damaged and four people were injured as a result of shelling.
There is a lot of shelling in the suburbs, including in different communities to the north and northwest of Kharkiv. Derhachi and other settlements of the Derhachi Hromada were fired upon. The most difficult situation is in the settlements closest to the line of contact: Prudyanka, Slatyne, Bezruky and others. There are damaged houses and problems with gas. Meanwhile, power supply restoration in Slatyne is ongoing. The city has been without electricity since March. As a result of the shelling of the village of Bezruky, three people were killed. Another person was injured in the settlement of the Derhachi Hromada. The village of Zolochiv suffered from shelling, which killed one woman and injured two more people. The villages of Turove and Kalynove were also shelled, houses were damaged, and farming buildings destroyed. A total of four people were injured during the day in the Zolochiv Hromada. The village of Korobochkyne of the Chkalovsk Hromada, on the so-called Malynivsky bridgehead, was shelled as well.
The situation in Kharkiv is relatively calm. And it’s hard for me to add anything else, because everything is quite stable and static. At the same time, the number of traffic accidents has increased in recent days. Today came the most epic accident, when a car drove into the concrete block of a checkpoint and hit another car. Of course, due to the strong impact, it was badly damaged, likely totaled.
Difficult battles are being fought in the Izium area and in the Barvinkove direction. Judging by the reports of the General Staff, we stopped the Muscovites’ offensive in the Barvinkove direction and pushed them out a little (Dibrivne-Nova Dmytrivka); and, it seems like we entered some part of the flank of the group advancing on Barvinkove. (The information about the village of Zavody in the Oskilska Hromada came from the journalist Andriy Tsaplienko.) Heavy fighting continues in the direction of Slovyansk. And near Balaklia, our military shot down another Su-34 aircraft. The pilots catapulted.
There’s unverified information about a “badabum” with ammunition that took place in the occupied Izium, near the muscovite headquarters there. And in Kreminna, according to the Luhansk Oblast State Administration, gas exploded in the city council building, where a meeting of the “people’s mayor,” appointed by the occupiers and law enforcement agencies, was being held. They say that supposedly no-one survived.
The situation in the occupied territories of the Kharkiv Oblast is difficult. In Vovchansk, the condition of the mayor, Anatoliy Stepanets, is unknown. There is unverified information that he is ill and has suffered a stroke.
In addition, according to my sources, all medics in Vovchansk, even students of the Vovchansk Medical College, have been mobilized by the muscovites under a threat of execution to provide assistance at the front for their military. The occupiers’ medical-personnel situation is so dire that they stupidly grabbed anyone with at least some medical education and knowledge.
Furthemore, the ruble was put into circulation in Vovchansk and the community. Muscovite communications and banks are operating to exchange hryvnia and dollars to rubles.
There is no electricity or communication and no food. Moreover, muscovites do not actually distribute the humanitarian aid that they bring. For example, they came to some village, took a number of photos, gave people the middle finger and went on making propaganda materials about how good and helpful they were. At the same time, the ruscists allow people to go to the city of Shebekino (Belgorod Oblast) every five to seven days (I don’t know how they keep track of this) to buy food. Attitudes toward the occupiers in Vovchansk were generally negative, and even those who wanted the muscovites to come were depressed.
There is muscovite equipment in the Borova Hromada, but there is no communication, water, or electricity. People go to elevated areas to try to connect with their relatives. The muscovites are also beginning to monitor and eavesdrop on communications, so people are being asked not to speak directly on issues related to the occupation or the occupiers, the movement of equipment, and so on.
Heavy fighting is taking place in the Joint Forces Operation zone, near Lyman, for Rubizhne, Sieverodonetsk, and Popasna. Unfortunately, our troops were forced to withdraw from the village of Novotoshkivske near Popasna, which was almost completely destroyed. The muscovites are also storming in the area of Avdiyivka, Maryinka, and Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk Oblast, as well as in the direction of Huliaipole, in Zaporizhzhya. Our military is holding back the ruscist attacks.
In the Kherson Oblast, five more settlements were liberated, and our military is getting closer and closer to Chornobayivka
Missile strikes are being carried out on railway junctions to prevent rapid delivery of military equipment and ammunition from our Western allies to the front. Zhmerynka and Kozyatyn railway junctions in the Vinnytsia Oblast, Zdolbunov district in the Rivne Oblast, and Korosten district in the Zhytomyr Oblast were fired upon. A total of five people were killed and 18 others were injured.
According to the Security Service of Ukraine, there have been several cases where current or former employees of Ukrainian defense industry enterprises are involved in spotting to guide missile strikes on these enterprises. What a surprise! It is a pity that because we have such a shortage of qualified professionals that we often do not think about internal security.
In Kherson, the occupiers kicked out all employees of the Kherson City Council, saying that they were no longer interested in their services, and removed the Ukrainian flags from the building. The muscovites also ordered residents of the village of Velyka Oleksandrivka in the Kherson Oblast to leave the settlement or be forcibly deported.
There was an extremely turbulent day in moscovia. First, Belgorod Oblast authorities claim that the villages of Nekhoteyevka (near the border checkpoint) and Zhuravlivka (near Nekhoteyevka) were shelled. Houses were damaged in both villages, and two people were injured in Zhuravlivka. Of course, the Ukrainian military was blamed in both cases.
The day turned out to be very fiery and hot in Bryansk. The Druzhba oil depot and a fuel depot on the military base and arsenal caught fire last night. The fires were so strong that they could not be tamed all day. In addition, fires broke out during the day at the Agroprokomplekt meat-packing plant and warehouses. Moreover, schoolchildren and kindergarteners were sent home due to the tense situation in the city. Big fire broke out at the air base in Ussuriysk, in the far East of moscovia. Also in the suburbs of moscovia, the Silk Road shopping center caught on fire.
Now for some funny stuff. Three and a half tons of cocaine did not reach moscovia, as they were found in cargo in the Estonian port of Muuga. Very sad for the muscovite elite and another failure of diplomacy or something other. (The muscovites like to transport coke in diplomatic mail.)
Today’s Darwin Award goes to the FSB officers who detained an alleged group of Ukrainian terrorists (they appear to be muscovite neo-Nazis) with fake Ukrainian passports, who allegedly planned to kill the muscovite “propagandon” (translator: a portmanteau of “propaganda” and the slang term for “condom”) Solovyov. One of the books found in the apartment they were staying in had a gift note which instead of a signature said “signature illegible.” In short, the quality of workers in moscovia is getting progressively worse…
