Ukraine shooting at civilian evacuation buses quotmassive attacksquot in Luhansk

Ukraine, shooting at civilian evacuation buses: "massive attacks" in Luhansk

ukrainian war, Russia fired on two buses that were carrying dozens of people from Popasna to safety. Lost contact with the drivers. This was announced by the head of the city’s military-civilian administration, Nikolay Khanatov. “Yesterday we evacuated 31 people from Popasna – he explained – but there were many others, so we sent two more buses to the city. It is known that they reached the village and landed under enemy fire. We can’t. communicate with the people on board”.

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That The Ukrainians speak of 14 repelled attacks in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions and 11 tanks, nine drones, and seven artillery systems destroyed. Most of the fighting was concentrated in the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. However, the situation around the Azovstal plant in the city of Mariupol remains unclear.

Fires and bombings during the night in Luhansk, Rubizhne, Novodruzhsk, but also in Gorsky and Orikhovo, where more than 15 houses were destroyed. There is no information about the victims. On the ground, rescuers continue to extinguish fires, assist civilians, and provide water, food and medicine.

there Russia claims to have hit 389 targets in Ukraine in the past few hours. According to the Moscow Defense Ministry, artillery units attacked 35 command posts and 15 weapons and ammunition depots, among other things. According to spokesman Igor Konashenkov, reported by Russian media, five other “military targets”, including four fuel and ammunition depots, were also hit by rockets.

“Russians are attacking Rubizhne and Popasna: yesterday two schools and twenty houses were destroyed,” Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai said on Telegram, posting photos of the buildings damaged by the attacks. “In the last day, 16 massive artillery attacks hit the cities and villages of the Luhansk region,” Gaidai continued, also reporting “every day dozens of fires in abandoned houses with damage caused by the spread of flames.”

In addition to the houses, “the Russian army fired on the school building in the new districts of Severodonetsk yesterday morning, and there was a fire in the offices. It later became known that another school in the city was damaged,” the governor said. “According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the enemy is continuing his offensive in Severodonetsk, where he is trying to complete the capture of Rubizhne and in the direction of Popasnyansky (in the direction of Kalinovo and Popasna), but it is unsuccessful,” Gaidai added and reported that “fourteen enemy attacks in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts were repelled in the last 24 hours”, that “eleven tanks, seven artillery systems, twenty-eight armored vehicles and fourteen vehicles were destroyed” and that “the defense units aircraft one aircraft and seven unmanned aerial vehicles shot down”.

As for the victims, “a 70-year-old man died last night in Loskutivka near Lysyhansk” and “the number of victims of the bombing raid on the mountain village, which the Russians made yesterday during the day, is still unknown”. In Horsky and Orikhovo, where “15 houses were destroyed by the enemy”, “operations to identify the wounded and dead are still ongoing.” Russian attacks in the Kharkiv region have decreased, but not stopped. Governor Oleg Synegubov announces this and takes stock of the progress of the fighting on Telegram.

“THAT Bombing continued overnight, particularly in the easternmost residential areas of Saltivka and Pivnichna Saltivkawhere, unfortunately, one person was injured, “said Synegubov, emphasizing that” in the last 24 the red troops carried out only three artillery strikes in Kharkiv “. In the region” remains the hot spot Izyum, where the enemy sought advance towards the Settlements Sulyhivka and Dovhenke, however, failed thanks to the defense of the armed forces “.

Synegubov assures that “they are working around the clock to restore the damaged infrastructure” and “continues to provide humanitarian assistance to Kharkiv and the communities in the region,” recommending residents “to remain vigilant despite the reduction in bombing and that.” Territory not leaving shelters without reason. Refrain from visiting cemeteries and collecting in groups this weekend.”

Meanwhile, demining in Chernihiv continues. The SES bomb disposal and underwater clearance group has been involved in the disposal of explosive devices 23 times, 429 of which have been found and seized, a total of 18,398 since the beginning of the war. 44 people and 17 vehicles were involved in the work.

In the last 24 hours, 6 fires not related to hostilities have been recorded, while in the Nizhyn district rescuers are working to dismantle the rubble of the destroyed buildings in the village of Nova Basan.