There are ongoing defensive battles near Chernihiv. Yesterday afternoon and this night, the Russians shelled the city's centre and dormitories for several hours. There is no light and water, and communication is limited in most regional districts. The situation is also complex in suburban villages, where the enemy places their equipment between houses, intimidating people and taking away their food.
As of 8 am, regional state administration heads stated that there is an air alarm over missile strikes throughout the Kyiv region. The hottest spots are Irpin, Bucha, Vorzel, Hostomel, Makariv, Borodyanka, the direction of the Zhytomyr highway, Vyshhorod district and four communities in the Brovary district.
In the Sumy region, night shelling by the Russian army continued on the outskirts of the regional centre and in the Okhtyrka district. In villages of these districts, the invaders drove people out of their houses, bullied them, took food away, broke phones and set fire to homes. All men are taken from some settlements in an unknown direction. In the morning, the Sumy region received confirmation of humanitarian corridors to the Poltava region from the cities of Sumy, Trostyanets, Lebedyn, Konotop and the villages of Krasnopillya and Velyka Pysarivka.
There were several alarms in the Zhytomyr region without destruction or losses.
In Kharkiv, rescuers have been extinguishing a fire in the market since yesterday. One rescuer died during the repeated shelling of the marketplaces. The fire spread to nearby houses. The Russians continue attacks on residential areas. There are hostilities in the Izyum, Derhachiv, Chuhuiv direction.
The night in the Kirovohrad and Zaporizhzhia region was quiet. Dnipropetrovsk region spent the night calmly; there was an air alarmin the morning. The situation in the Rivne region is the same.
It is calm in the Vinnytsia region, except for air alarms. Volyn and Zakarpattia regions remain quiet. In the Khmelnytskyy and Ternopil regions, there was an alarm in the morning, but it was calm at night. - alarm in the morning, calm at night. In Cherkasy, it is quiet.
In the Lviv region, there have been several explosions after 6 am.
In the Poltava region and Chernivtsi, it was quiet. In Ivano-Frankivsk, there was an alarm in the morning.
The Russians destroyed more than 20 residential and infrastructural buildings in Severodonetsk and Rubizhne overnight in the Luhansk region. At 5 am, the occupiers launched MRLS Grad at Kreminna and Lysychansk. Two people died during the night.
In the Donetsk region, shelling took place along the front line in the north and centre. Mariupol is still under siege; there are street fights. Maryinka, Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka are under fire. Ocheretyne military administration informed that the enemy had fired all night in Verkhnotoretske, Novobakhmutivka, Krasnohorivka. The fire is still going on.
Mykolaiv, Voznesensk and Snihurivka are under airstrikes, and rescuers extinguish fires. The information on casualties is being specified. Enemies are terrorizing civilians in the occupied territories, and fighting takes place in the region.
The number of explosions and shelling has decreased in the Kherson region over the past 24 hours. Nevertheless, the region is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. Enemies set up new checkpoints in the regional centre. Civilians are waiting for new green corridors.
There was one air alarm in Odesa at night.
In the morning, the enemy struck around the Lviv airport. The building of the aircraft repair plant was destroyed. Russia also launched strikes on Kyiv again - on the residential area in Podil.