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| Ukrainian Armed Forces repel enemy attacks in the East in three directions, - Kyrylenko |
| 2022-07-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [LB] Shelling continues along the entire front line. Iryna Gamalii In the East, the occupiers are trying to advance in the Bakhmut, Lyman and Donetsk directions, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding their positions. Pavlo Kyrylenko , the head of the Donetsk OVA, announced this on the air of the UArazom telethon . "The shelling continues along the entire front line. Indeed, during the past day, the enemy used all measures of defeat in order to advance in the Bakhmut and Lyman directions, but had no success. Similarly, in the Donetsk direction, these are Maryinka, Krasnohorivka and Avdiivka. The armed forces of Ukraine are holding their positions, and the enemy has no opportunity to advance," Kyrylenko said. According to him, the invaders occasionally carry out offensive actions in small groups in Donetsk region, but the Ukrainian defense is ready to repel the enemy. "But, understanding how many enemy armored personnel carriers are concentrated in the Bakhmut and Lyman directions, in the direction of the cities of Bakhmut, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, we understand that there will be attempts and further aggressive actions of the enemy," he said. Kyrylenko added that the Donetsk OVA, together with the military command, "are building a defense that will make it possible to stop the enemy." "And then we can already talk about de-occupation, the General Staff will additionally inform about it," Kyrilenko concluded. We will remind, today the Russian occupiers fired rockets at Toretsk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Raihorodok in the Donetsk region. There are victims among the civilian population. Main thing for the day. Monday, July 10 [LB] On July 11, rescuers continued to search for the dead and injured in the rubble of the five-story building, according to the message of the Emergency Department of Donetsk Oblast. As of 5:47 p.m., according to the information of the deputy head of the Office of the President Kyril Tymoshenko, rescuers retrieved 9 wounded and 30 dead from the rubble. "Employees of the State Emergency Service dismantled 65% of the debris. They removed 170 tons of destroyed elements of the building. The work is ongoing," Tymoshenko added. As of 8:00 p.m., rescuers reported that they had pulled out the bodies of 31 dead people from under the rubble. The General Staff informed that the Armed Forces inflict losses on the enemy in all directions where hostilities are ongoing. The enemy is concentrating its main efforts on establishing final control over the Luhansk region. In the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy is trying to hold the occupied lines and prevent our troops from advancing to the state border. About the situation in other directions - in our news. According to preliminary data, three people were killed as a result of the shelling by the Russians of a shopping center and houses in Kharkiv with multiple rocket launchers. More than 30 people were injured. In the evening of July 11, the Russians launched another missile attack on Odesa. According to the head of OVA Maksym Marchenko, there were no casualties. Serhii Bratchuk, the spokesman of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, added that the Russian Federation had fired two missiles over the region. Ukrainian forces are confidently advancing in the south of the country . Over the past two days, it was possible to destroy about a dozen of the enemy's barrel artillery and rocket salvo systems. The destruction of command posts and logistics centers with ammunition and fuel and lubricants, as well as the occupiers' manpower, continues, Natalya Humenyuk, head of the United Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of Southern Ukraine, said at the briefing. "The situation in the southern region remains steadily tense. The advance of our troops is taking place, but it is slow. But it is sure. The announcement of our successes will be made when the consolidation takes place," she said. According to the Commissioner Oleh Kotenko, more than 7,000 military personnel are considered missing in Ukraine. "If we are talking about the military, let's understand who the military are. There is the Armed Forces, there is the National Guard, there are border guards, there are the SBU, and these are different institutions. They are not included in the figure given by the Armed Forces. The Armed Forces provides data on 2,000 missing military. Our call center has approximately 7,200 people," Kotenko said. He added that most of the missing soldiers are in captivity. Due to the law on oligarchs, Akhmetivska SCM is leaving the media business. Media Group Ukraine will give up all broadcast and satellite television licenses and print media licenses in Ukraine in favor of the state. The Akhmetiv media holding includes 10 broadcast and satellite television channels, including "Ukraine", "Ukraine24", "Football1/2/3", as well as the multimedia platform "Today" and other resources and print media. According to Akhmetov, the total amount of investments invested in this media holding exceeded $1.5 billion. The consequences of this decision for the domestic media market can be very serious. |
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