Russians strike Nikopol, Marhanets with heavy artillery
Last night Russian troops twice struck the Nikopol district with heavy artillery.
23 December 2022
Last night Russian troops twice struck the Nikopol district with heavy artillery.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces have repelled attacks by Russian invaders near 19 settlements in such regions as Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk over the past day.
Two children were trapped under rubble, as Russian troops launched a missile attack on the Zaporizhzhia region. They were rescued and taken to hospital.
On December 22, 2022, Russian troops launched 54 strikes on three border communities in the Sumy region.
22 December 2022
Five people were injured in today's enemy shelling of Kupyansk and Vovchansk in Kharkiv region. Four of them are workers of the district hospital.
Today, December 22, the enemy struck Kurakhove, Kramatorsk, and Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region. One civilian was killed, two people were injured, another school was damaged.
The enemy attacked Nikopol and Synelnykove districts of Dnipropetrovsk region, leaving 500 families without electricity.
The White House has confirmed that North Korea has delivered an arms shipment, including rockets and missiles, to Russia's Wagner Group for the war in Ukraine.
Russian forces have damaged the building of a gymnasium in Kherson with Grad multiple launch rocket systems.
Ukrainian defense forces on Thursday struck a command post and two ammunition depots of the Russian invaders.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he is returning from Washington with good results and is bringing the decisions that Ukrainian forces fighting in Donbas and the south of the country have been waiting for.
In the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, one of the enemy rockets hit the building of a boarding school, while the other struck the premises of a local enterprise.
The extended meeting of the Russian defense ministry, held on Wednesday with Vladimir Putin’s participation shows that Russia is preparing for a prolonged war and that there are currently no plans in Moscow to go for any negotiations.
After the deoccupation of Ukrainian territories in Kherson region, the police found seven torture chambers and eight places where people deprived of liberty had been held.
Ukraine needs cluster munitions to inflict devastating losses on massive Russian forces on the battlefield.
The Ukrainian military will quickly learn how to operate Patriot air defense systems, which are included in the new U.S. security assistance package to Ukraine.
On Thursday, December 22, the Russian troops struck the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region with MLRS, killing a civilian and injuring two more.
Thirty-six more graves were discovered at the cemetery in the settlement of geologists near Kherson after the territory was liberated from Russian invaders.
The Russians take Ukrainian POWs out of the places of detention allegedly for exchange and then return them to penal facilities, claiming that Ukraine refuses to exchange them. Ukraine considers it a form of torture.
In Donetsk region, a school, residential buildings, and power lines were damaged in Russian shelling over the past day.
Over the past day, December 21, Russian armed aggression claimed the life of one Ukrainian civilian and injured 14 people more.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov has said that another military aid package to Ukraine from the United States is what the Ukrainian Armed Forces need to fight for life and freedom.
Ukraine's air defense forces have shot down over the Mykolaiv region a Kh-59MK2 guided air missile launched by a Russian fighter jet from the Black Sea.
Polish Ambassador to Ukraine Bartosz Cichocki has received a Cross of Merit badge from the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The situation with the power supply in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, remains difficult, with only emergency power outages currently being applied in the city.
The Russian military shelled the Kherson region 60 times on Wednesday, December 21, killing one person and wounding six others.
Ukrainian forces have already killed about 100,400 Russian troops in Ukraine between February 24 and December 22, including 660 in the past day alone.
Russian troops on December 21 launched six missile strikes, 15 air strikes and carried 64 attacks using multiple launch rocket systems. At the same time, since February 24, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already destroyed more than 100,000 Russian invaders.
The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has provided more than $374 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.
Patriot air defense systems, to be supplied by the United States to Ukraine, are needed to protect the country’s main population centers.