Serhiy Haidai spoke about the situation in Luhansk region.
Russian occupiers continue to shell Luhansk region. In particular, on the eve of the enemy shelling in Severodonetsk, civilians were killed and wounded, said the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Haidai.
“A man and a woman died on the spot. The Russians fired on a house in the old part of the city at about 4 p.m. Another man was hospitalized. Nine people were injured the day before yesterday after an enemy artillery attack on a hospital in Severodonetsk. A 15-year-old resident of Lysychansk, who was injured during the shelling of the city by the Russian army, was hospitalized at a children's hospital in Dnipro, “Gaidai said.
They also attacked in the direction of Toshkivka. Gaidai noted that there is again a lot of destruction of housing.
“In particular, these are the villages of the Popasna community. In Komyshuvas, Katerynivka, Novozvanivka and Troitsky, 20 houses were damaged. In the towns of Horske and Zolote, as well as in Toshkivka itself, there are a total of 11, three of which are high-rise buildings. In addition, seven high-rise buildings in the new districts of Severodonetsk were recorded yesterday afternoon, and the building of the vocational school was also damaged, “the head of the OVA added.
The Russian occupiers also attacked Lysychansk, Privilege, Novodruzhesk, Rubizhne, Voevodivka, and Belogorivka with artillery and volley fire systems.
Gaidai said that yesterday our defenders repulsed 17 enemy attacks at the front. The Ukrainian military destroyed three tanks, one artillery system, six units of armored combat vehicles, and one enemy vehicle. During this time, our defenders destroyed:
- one anti-aircraft missile system;
- 58 tanks;
- 26 artillery systems (including 1 MLRS);
- 98 units of armored combat vehicles;
- seven units of special engineering;
- 33 units of motor vehicles;
- one anti-aircraft gun;
- four helicopters;
- 27 drones.
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The General Staff of the Armed Forces reported that the main focus of active hostilities remains the Donetsk direction . The Russian occupiers concentrated the maximum number of forces in the Luhansk region in order to reach the administrative borders of the region. The enemy is using the full range of available weapons, including aircraft. in the north of Kharkiv region and concentrates forces in the south, near the city of Izyum.
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