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Ukraine has completed another round of prisoner of war exchange o with Russia. Another 116 defenders returned home. That’s according to the Head of the President's Office, Andriy Yermak, who broke the news on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. According Yermak, "we managed to return 116 of our people, defenders of Mariupol, Kherson guerillas, snipers from the Bakhmut area, and other heroes of ours." These include 87 soldiers with the Armed Forces, two of whom are with the specops forces, eight soldiers with Military Intelligence, seven with the National Guard, six with the National Police, five border guards, two with the Navy,…

The Donetsk Regional Military Administration showed the consequences of Russian shelling of the region over the past day: Kramatorsk, Avdiivka, Toretsk, Vuhledar, and Kurakhivka were under attack. "At night, the Russians launched two more missile attacks on the outskirts of Kramatorsk. Outbuildings were damaged, but nobody was injured. In Volnovakha direction, Vuhledar and Novoukrainka were under fire, no one was injured," Pavlo Kyrylenko, Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration posted on Telegram. According to him, three people were injured in Donetsk direction and eight houses were damaged in Kurakhivka. In the morning, the old part of Avdiivka town came…

Russian aggression turned the town of Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk region, into ashes. "This is what the symbol of the temporary regional center looks like now. In June, the residents of Luhansk region were stunned by the news that the Ice Palace burned down as a result of a ruscist attack. A fifty-year history was burned," Serhiy Haidai, Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, posted on Telegram, publishing a video of the Ice Palace in Sievierodonetsk. According to him, the invaders deliberately pummeled the Ice Palace with shells and also destroyed many "iconic buildings that were the legends of Sievierodonetsk." "The…

The Russian invaders fired MLRS twice at a settlement and the water area of Ochakiv community, Mykolaiv region, on February 3, damaging houses and farm buildings. "Mykolaiv district. Yesterday, February 3, at 13:19 and 23:22, the enemy shelled a settlement and the water area of Ochakiv community with MLRS. As a result, residential buildings and farm buildings were damaged. There were no casualties," Vitaliy Kim, Head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, posted on Telegram. Moreover, yesterday at 13:44, the enemy struck Kutsurub community with tube artillery. No damage or casualties were reported. In Mykolaiv, Pervomaisk, Voznesensk, and Bashtanka districts,…

Two civilians were killed and 14 were wounded in Russian shelling of the Donetsk region on Friday, February 3. Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said this in a post on the Telegram messaging app, Ukrinform reports. "On February 3, it emerged that two residents of the Donetsk region had been killed by Russians: in Toretsk and Bakhmut. Another 14 people in the region were injured," he said. Kyrylenko added that it was currently impossible to establish the exact number of casualties in Mariupol and Volnovakha.

Yevhenii Kuzmin, a former Ukrainian law enforcer who defected to the enemy, died as a result of a car explosion in Enerhodar, the satellite town that is home to most workers of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which has been occupied by Russian invasion forces. The Executive Committee of the Berdiansk City Council reported the news via Telegram, according to Ukrinform. "In Enerhodar, a collaborator Yevhenii Kuzmin was blown up. Before the occupation, he was a Ukrainian law enforcement officer, who then flipped to the enemy side. As a result of the explosion, the collaborator was killed, another car was…

As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 459 children were killed and 919 – wounded. That’s according to the Prosecutor General's Office, Ukrinform reports. "More than 1,378 children were affected in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression by the Russian Federation. As of the morning of February 3, 2023, the official number of child deaths has not changed, standing at 459. The number of injured has increased to 919," the statement reads. The numbers are not final as work is underway to verify incoming data from the hostility zones, as well as the captured and…

Since February 24, 2022, the National Police has received 9,631 reports of 9,764 missing children. Yaroslav Shanko, Deputy Head of the Juvenile Prevention Department of the National Police of Ukraine, announced this at a briefing at Media Center Ukraine - Ukrinform. "Since the introduction of martial law on the territory of Ukraine, as of today, the National Police of Ukraine has received 9,631 reports of 9,764 missing children. Currently, active search for 347 children is underway. Of them, 323 children have gone missing in the areas of combat actions," he said. Shanko reminded that information about the disappearance of a…

In Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, rescuers retrieved the body of another dead person from under the rubble of a residential building hit by a Russian missile on February 1. Oleksandr Honcharenko, head of the Kramatorsk City Military Administration, wrote this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. "Rescuers retrieved the body of a dead woman from under the rubble," he wrote. As reported, the enemy missile attack on Kramatorsk took place on Wednesday, February 1, at 21:45. As a result of the strike, the entrance of a four-story residential building was destroyed. Read also: Donetsk region administration shows consequences of night missile attack on…

Head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny informed U.S. President's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley on the current situation on the frontline. “In the framework of the continued dialogue, Head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny had a phone call with U.S. President's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley,” the President’s Office informs. As noted, the Ukrainian…