War chronicles

The shelling hit Northern Saltivka and the rest of Saltivka, and Oleksiyivka. Even one of the churches of the ROC in Ukraine was hit, as well as the village of Zhukovsky and Piatykhatky. Some shelling aimed in the direction of Obriy (Horizon) and the Kharkiv Tractor Plant neighborhood. The rest of the city was quiet—even unsettlingly quiet. Yesterday, as a result of the shelling of Saltivka, a gas pipeline was damaged and gas was partially cut off. Public utility workers are repairing the pipeline under the fire. Public utility workers in Kharkiv are real heroes!

Today was a relatively quiet day. Relatively because there had been shelling, but it wasn’t very intense. The main reason for that is our glorious military slowly pushing the Muscovites to the border. In addition, our people aren’t sitting still and are vigorously attacking the enemy with artillery.

It’s been four weeks since the start of the large-scale Muscovite invasion of Ukraine. And for four weeks Kharkiv has been defending itself, fighting, and hanging on. The city that the Western military didn’t think could last for more than a few hours has kept up defending itself for four weeks! And it will hang on and defend itself further. The Muscovites aren’t strong enough to take it!

The Muscovites have changed their tactics in the last few days. Most active shelling of the residential areas now occurs in the evenings rather than mornings.

Today was quiet compared to the last few days, which saw heavy bombardment of many of the city’s neighborhoods, but I wouldn’t say it was calm exactly.

It was probably the hardest day for the city in the last week.

In general, the day passed rather quietly, although the air raid siren about the threat of shelling was constantly going off. The pig-dogs became more active in the evening, directing most of their shelling at Northern Saltivka and the numbered microdistrict of Saltivka.