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An enemy rocket has damaged seven buildings and two infrastructure facilities in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region. According to Ukrinform, Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional military administration, said this in a Telegram post and published photos of the destruction. "Seven residential buildings and two infrastructure facilities were damaged - these are the final consequences of yesterday's attack on Kramatorsk. This time, the Russians used a Tornado-S missile with a high-explosive fragmentation charge against civilians. Attacks on cities in the relative rear are a deliberate choice of the Russians, who seek to sow panic. Kramatorsk is a special target, because it…

Two bodies were removed from the rubble in Nikopol, where apartment blocks were destroyed as a result of Russia’s attack. "The rescuers have just removed the bodies of two people killed by enemy shelling from the rubble of a house in Nikopol. One injured woman is now in hospital. Doctors assess her condition as average," Valentyn Reznichenko, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, posted on Telegram. According to him, the Russian military fired a total of 53 rockets from Grad systems in the morning. "Russia opened a portal to hell for itself. And there is no way back," Reznichenko…

As of the morning of July 16, 353 children were killed in Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion. "According to the official information of the juvenile prosecutors, 353 children were killed and more than 662 children were injured," the Prosecutor General's Office posted on Telegram. As noted, these numbers are not final as efforts are being made to establish casualties in areas of active hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, most children were affected in Donetsk region – 353, Kharkiv region – 191, Kyiv region – 116, Chernihiv region – 68,…

The Russians have been aiming to capture a strategically important road for them for more than two months, but they are still unable to establish control over several kilometers of this road. "The occupying forces continue to launch artillery strikes with subsequent assault attempts, launch rocket and airstrikes. During July 15, the enemy launched four rocket strikes, three artillery attacks, and five more long mortar attacks on populated localities near Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway and around them," Serhiy Haidai, Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, posted on Facebook. In particular, airstrikes were launched on Verkhniokamyanske and Bilohorivka. A missile and airstrike…

Ukraine’s law enforcement officers have registered more than 23,300 crimes of aggression and war crimes committed by Russian military in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion started. The press service of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office said in a Telegram post. In particular, according to the PGO, Russian military committed 23,370 crimes of aggression and war crimes, including violations of the laws and customs of war, planning, preparing or waging a war, war propaganda, and other crimes. Law enforcement officers also registered 11,270 crimes against the national security, crimes related to the encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of…

This morning Ukraine’s artillery unit has destroyed an enemy ammunition depot located near Volodymyrivka, Donetsk Region. The relevant statement was made by the 58th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade named after Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky on Facebook, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “This morning, thanks to the coordinated actions, Ivan Vyhovsky’s fighters have destroyed an enemy ammunition depot near Volodymyrivka,” the report states. A reminder that, on July 14, 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed Russia’s headquarters and barracks in Nova Maiachka, Kherson Region. Photo: illustrative mk

  Ukraine receives a lot of weapons from Western partners. However, they began to express concern about whether these weapons are being smuggled to the “black market”. About “concerns” about the possibility of further smuggling of weapons that Ukraine receives from Western partners, with reference to three “sources” wrote the Financial Times. Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov denied such accusations. “We must survive. Now we have no motive to take weapons out of Ukraine,” Oleksiy Reznikov said. He also added that several of Ukraine's allies sent their representatives to check the circulation of the weapons they provided. The Minister of…

  Russian invaders have killed 352 children in Ukraine since the beginning of the all-out invasion. The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said this in a Telegram post "As of early July 15, 2022, more than 1,009 children were affected in Ukraine by Russia's full-scale armed aggression. According to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 352 children were killed and more than 657 were injured. These figures are not final, as work is ongoing to establish them in places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories," the report reads. According to the report, most child casualties were recorded in…

Austria has strongly condemned Russia's brutal attack on the civilians of Vinnytsia, stressing that those guilty of this war crime must be held accountable. This was stated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria on Twitter "We strongly condemn #Russia’s heinous attack against civilians in #Vinnytsia today, taking the lives of more than 20 innocent people, incl. children. Targeting civilians is a #warcrime - there can be no impunity, the perpetrators of these atrocities must be held to account," the statement reads. As reported, on July 14, the Russians hit the center of Vinnytsia with Kalibr cruise missiles, launching…

The Russian Federation has abducted and taken out of Ukraine about 200,000 children. President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in his address to the participants of the international conference in The Hague “It is still being established how many children Russian forces abducted and took out of Ukraine. The preliminary figure is dreadful - about two hundred thousand children,” he said. https://youtu.be/ZgCYad0h5k4