Kharkiv

Individual muscovite strikes on the northern outskirts of Kharkiv continue. There were no “traditional” midnight missile strikes on the city. The city has continued free use of public transport. Only a limited number of public transport vehicles are running, since a significant portion of the trams have been damaged, and passenger traffic in the metro has declined. The current daily ridership is 110,000, compared with almost half a million during the COVID quarantine. Work is underway in Pivnichna Saltivka to reconnect houses to the gas supply. Gas supply in the Malodanilivka Hromada, where the gas pipeline was damaged, has also been restored, and work is underway to reconnect the Derhachi gas supply. The occupiers and collaborators in the occupied territories are looking for teachers who will start using muscovite school programs in September. The occupiers have appointed a moscovia citizen as a gauleiter of the occupied Balakliya. […]

Isolated strikes on Kharkiv’s northern districts continue. A nighttime rocket strike was fired at one of Kharkiv’s industrial facilities. Mayor Terekhov has become less public, and the rhetoric in his statements has changed: he is now talking about the likelihood of repeated attempts by the muscovites to attack in the Kharkiv direction. Water quality studies have found deviations in iron content and turbidity in tap water in the city, as well as contamination by microorganisms in a number of sources. Kharkiv’s football club Metalist 1925 is currently training in the Kyiv region and planning to play at one of Kyiv’s stadiums next season. According to the police and the prosecutor’s office, more than 1,500 different sites were damaged in the Rohan Hromada when it was the frontline, from the first days of the invasion until March. […]

От завершився травень та календарна весна – входимо в українське літо. Поодинокі обстріли Харкова продовжуються – по північним околицям. Сильні обстріли смт Золочів, є загиблі та поранені. Військові зазначають, що зберігається загроза відновлення наступальних дій московитів на Харків. Міський голова Терехов заявив, що вважає за доцільне, щоби харків’янам, які лишилися без житла, були виплачені грошові компенсації за житло і майно, і щоби люди самі вирішили де вони будуть жити.У Харкові лишилося приблизно 20% школярів, але до онлайн-уроків підключається приблизно 90%. На Харківщині пошкоджено понад 200 шкіл (з 715 шкіл по області, тобто 30%), з них зруйновані – близько 100 шкіл. […]

Kharkiv has been defending itself, living, and counterattacking for three months. Still, the shelling of the city, as well as its northern suburbs, has been ongoing for three months. Fighting continues to the north of the city, and another Territorial Defense battalion is being formed to fortify the defenses. The metro has been relaunched in Kharkiv, but the train stock has had some losses. Since the beginning of the large-scale muscovite invasion of Ukraine, 707 people, including 36 children, have been killed in the Kharkiv region. […]

The shelling of Kharkiv continues, with low-intensity, singular strikes in the northern outskirts of the city and in the northern suburbs. There were also strikes near the city center, as well as in Merefa, which is south of Kharkiv. About 3,500 residential buildings and 420 office buildings have been damaged and destroyed in Khariv. Preparations to relaunch the metro are underway, but the situation with several dozen people still living at some stations on the Saltivka metro line has yet to be resolved. Exhumation of the bodies of civilians killed by the occupiers continues in the liberated suburbs. Valery Zaluzhny, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was named one of the top 100 most influential people by Time magazine. […]

Muscovite forces continue shelling Kharkiv, causing injuries and destruction of buildings. The most affected are the northern outskirts of the city. Shelling of the northern suburbs of Kharkiv also continues. The regional authorities are finally talking about a need to build defensive fortifications around Kharkiv, along the border of Kharkiv region. The metro is being launched in the city, but not all people have been relocated from some subway stations. Peaceful life is gradually being established in the liberated eastern suburbs. Kidnappings and torture of people in the temporarily occupied territories of the region. […]

Muscovites continued striking Kharkiv throughout the day, one shell at a time. The northern suburbs are suffering again. The shelling didn’t cause any fires in the city, but there were people who were wounded. Shelling and fighting continue in the northern suburbs. The battle for Kharkiv is not over yet, and the security situation isn’t durable. However, two tram routes were launched in Kharkiv. Losses from a missile strike In Lozova, Kharkiv region, are being assessed, and they are huge. […]

Shelling of the city continues. The strikes are infrequent, hitting the northern outskirts. The northern suburbs are suffering more attacks, resulting in many fires. There are dead and wounded. Fighting continues to the north of the city. The muscovites want to regain lost ground, especially on the Lyptsi side. There was a powerful rocket strike on Lozova, where the palace of culture was destroyed and people were wounded. Kharkiv is restoring utilities, preparing to relaunch the subway. […]

The northern outskirts of Kharkiv were shelled today. Shelling of the northern suburbs continues as well. There are wounded and dead. Shelling also continues in the eastern suburbs and other areas, such as Lozivska, Balakliyska, and Shevchenkivska hromadas. […]

The shelling of Kharkiv resumed today. The strikes were few, but they did happen. The muscovites shelled different parts of the city. At night, they attacked Selyshche Zhukovskoho. Residential houses, Kharkiv Aviation Institute buildings, the fire department, and cars were damaged. The muscovites are targeting educational institutions and State Emergency Service units. Our team of civilian infrastructure destruction documentarians has written about this before. During the day, the ruscists fired on Saltivka and Pyatykhatky, injuring three people. In the evening, there were strikes in the northern outskirts of Kharkiv. […]