While the Russians are shelling residential areas and critical infrastructure, the Armed Forces of Ukraine damaged the Antonovsky Bridge in the suburbs of Kherson, through which Russia provided its troops in occupied Kherson.

Mykolaiv region

Last night, in the Mykolaiv region, the air raid alarm sounded every half hour or so.

The Russians are concentrating their strikes in the south and east, using mainly Grad and Uragan missile launchers.

Destruction in Kharkiv.

July 17, 2022

According to the regional authorities, shelling damaged residential buildings in several communities in Mykolaiv and Bashtan districts.

Summer houses of the Mykolaivites, as well as dry grass and farmland with grain caught fire.

The authorities are clarifying information about the victims.

Kharkiv and Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

In Kharkiv, three local residents, including a 13-year-old boy, died as a result of shelling.

A 72-year-old woman was injured.

A funnel from a Russian missile in the Odesa region.

July 19, 2022

For days in a row, Russia does not stop shelling Nikopol Dnipropetrovsk region.

On the night and morning of July 20, the Russians fired 31 shells at the residential area of ​​the city.

Two citizens died, nine more were injured, including four children.

Unexploded ammunition is scattered in the city.

Rescuers are now clearing the debris and destroying unexploded shells.

Sumshchyna and Chernihiv region

In the Sumy and Chernihiv regions, after a short break, shelling resumed in the morning of July 20.

100 shells flew into Semyonovska community of Chernihiv region, but there were no victims.

Shostkin district of Sumy region is shelled with mortars.

The authorities have not yet reported any injuries or deaths.

Ukrainian troops destroyed the Russian radar and the bridge in the south

On July 19, it became known that the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a modern Russian radar station capable of detecting low-altitude targets with a missile attack.

This station was located in the Russian-occupied village of Lazurnoe, Kherson Region.

It is reported that Ukrainian troops targeted her from a distance of more than 100 kilometers.

The armed forces of Ukraine also damaged the Antonovsky Bridge in the suburbs of Kherson, through which Russia provided its troops in occupied Kherson.

Ukraine returned to the island of Snakes in the Black Sea

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the beginning of the investigation and demining of the Snake Island.

Earlier, the Ukrainian national flag was installed on it.

The Ukrainian intelligence service added that they found Russian equipment on the island - drones, anti-aircraft missile systems, grenade launchers, as well as combat logs with personal documents of Russian soldiers.

Separately, scouts reported that they "found and evacuated a Ukrainian cat that had lived in the occupation for several months to the controlled territory."

Russia's war against Ukraine

  • At 5 o'clock in the morning on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbass at the request of the "DPR" and "LPR" groups.

    On February 21, during a televised address to Russians, Putin called the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" independent states within the regions.

    On February 22, the Federation Council ratified this decision.

  • All days of the war, Ukrainian cities were bombarded with rockets, aircraft flew over them.

    Russian troops are attacking, including from the territory of Belarus, using airfields, bases and roads.

    Representatives of the Lukashenka regime justify the war, the opposition considers the territory of Belarus occupied and calls for resistance to the Russian invaders.

  • On February 27, the International Territorial Defense Legion was created in Ukraine, and foreign volunteers were invited to join it.

    Belarusians also entered there.

    During the three and a half months of war, six Belarusian volunteers and soldiers of the USU died at the front: Alyaksei "Tur" Skoblya, Ilya "Litvin" Hrenau, Zmytser "Terror" Apanasovich, Zmytser "Hans" Rubashevsky, Konstantin "Phoenix" Dubail, Pavel "Volat" , Ivan "Brest" Marchuk.

    In the battle where Marchuk was killed, another six Belarusian fighters disappeared without a trace.

  • On June 17, the fighters of the Kalinovsky regiment received the state Ukrainian awards "For combat merits" and "Ukraine above all".

  • On March 30, the UN approved the composition of an independent commission that will investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

    It included people who worked in the analysis of the genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • Contrary to Putin's statements about attacks only on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

    The Russians are using banned weapons, including cluster bombs, against civilians.

  • On April 1, Lithuania became the first country in the European Union to completely abandon Russian gas.

    Latvia and Estonia followed her example.

    Germany has promised to completely stop using Russian oil by the end of 2022.

  • On April 2, after the liberation of the town of Bucha near Kyiv, photojournalists published dozens of photographs showing hundreds of dead people, victims of mass murders committed by Russian troops.

    Many are buried in spontaneous mass graves.

    The Russian occupation also brought great destruction to the people of Barodyan.

    It is also known about a number of rapes, including babies.

  • In April, missile attacks on Ukraine and airstrikes from the territory of Belarus decreased, Russian troops began to leave Belarus.

  • On May 9, the US President signed the Land Leasing Law.

    This law restores the program from the Second World War, which will speed up the delivery of weapons to Ukraine and increase the amount of such assistance.

  • On the night of May 17, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Anna Malyar, confirmed the beginning of the operation to rescue the Ukrainian soldiers, who were trapped in the territory of "Azovstal".

    According to her, 53 seriously wounded were evacuated from there to the medical facility of occupied Novoazovsk.

    Another 211 people were brought to Alenivka through the humanitarian corridor.

    The Ministry of Defense of Russia states that almost 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers at the plant "surrendered" as of May 18.

    The International Red Cross officially registered these fighters as prisoners of war.

  • Since its inception, thousands of volunteers from 55 countries have joined the Foreign Legion, including Canada, the Baltic States, Poland, Australia, the Netherlands, the USA, the Czech Republic, Finland and other countries.

    Several foreigners who fought for Ukraine were captured and died.

  • In June, the so-called "DPR" sentenced two volunteers from Great Britain and one from Morocco to death.

  • Since the beginning of the war, 34 journalists have died.

    Some did not perform professional functions, but were mobilized into the Ukrainian army.

  • On June 25, Ukrainian troops retreated from the city of Severodanetsk to fortified positions.

    The city was captured by the Russian military.

  • Independent verification of information about military actions provided by officials of various parties is still impossible.