UAF – Ukrainian Forces
RF – Russian Forces
MLRS – Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
Summary of the Events
RF continue to fire missiles against Ukrainian civilians as UAF are hitting RF forces hard.
Battle for the Donbas
Target Bakhmut – RF fired a missile at a vocational school in Bakhmut.
Target Slovyansk – RF shelled a residential neighborhood in Slovyansk with illegal cluster bombs destroying a five-story apartment building and several private homes. Three people were injured.
Target Kramatorsk – RF destroyed a school that was being used for humanitarian aid.
Battle for Kharkiv
RF conducted a missile strike on Kharkiv killing three civilians and injuring 23 people.
Battle for Kherson
UAF conducted 230 missions against RF in the Kherson region. UAF conducted eight air strikes hitting five RF strongholds, two weapon depots, and a concentration of RF forces. 35 Russian soldiers were killed in the attacks. RF also lost a howitzer, two drones, three armored vehicles, and eight other vehicles.
Residents of occupied Kherson are refusing to send their children to Russian schools, and teachers are refusing to teach at such schools.
Other Regions
Dnipropetrovsk – Nikopol was struck again destroying eleven homes. One person died and another was injured in the attack. RF fired on warehouses where a transformer was in use knocking out power to several villages. Zelenodolsk was hit by barrel artillery and a private home was damaged. Seven homes were destroyed in Apostolove (one of the homes was a home of a deacon of a church of our builders of IDP homes). Eight people were injured in that attack.
Zaporizhia – RF forces had moved their MLRS and artillery systems into the Zaporizhian Nuclear Power Plant territory hoping that it would be safe from UAF attacks. But UAF carried out precision attacks with drones hitting a tent camp and destroying an anti-aircraft vehicle and a Grad MLRS. Three Russian soldiers were killed in the attack with another twelve injured. The tent camp was completely destroyed.
Other News
Ukraine and Russia signed separate agreements with the UN and Turkey allowing Ukraine to begin exporting grain to the world. Ukraine refused to sign the same agreement with Russia and so two separate agreements were signed.
Ukraine has offered to assist Moldova in expelling RF that have occupied the Transnistria region of Moldova.
International Support
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace announced that the UK will supply Ukraine with another 20 self-propelled guns and 36 artillery guns with more than 50,000 rounds of ammunition. They will also provide hundreds of drones and 1600 more anti-tank weapons in the coming weeks.
The US approved another $270 million in military assistance to Ukraine. The package will include four more HIMARS MLRS which have been inflicted huge damage on RF. The package also includes 36,000 rounds of artillery and 580 drones.