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Near-Daily Ukraine War Journal, 24 August: Independence Day in Ukraine Amid Russian Terror
24 August 2022 In war-time, three friends, Zakhar Pikh, Ukrainian bartender before the war; Joe Lindsley, American writer in Ukraine since the pandemic started; and Volodymyr Kebalo, a Ukrainian civil society activist, share a real conversation about life under Russian threat on Ukrainian Independence Day. Includes explicit language, because the goal is to share honest thoughts and the mood of the moment.
Daily Situation summary of war in Ukraine by region for Monday, August 26, 2022.
by PAVLO VITENKO, Ukrainian Freedom News
Dnipropetrovsk region / Photo: TSN
Summary by Oblasts (regions)
DNIPROPETROVSK REGION
The Nikopol, Synelnykove and Kryvyi Rih districts were shelled. In Nikopol, houses, a school and a sanatorium were damaged. Broken power line. Up to a thousand people without electricity. No one was hurt.
In Marhanets and Chervonohryhorivka communities, there were no casualties or damage. In the Synelniky district, rockets landed in two communities. An agricultural enterprise was damaged in one, and a road enterprise in the other. Details are being clarified.
In the Kryvyi Rih district, the Zelenodolsk and Shyroke communities were hit. There is destruction, people were not affected.
MYKOLAYIV REGION
At night there were explosions in Mykolayiv. Information about the consequences is being clarified. Yesterday evening and this morning, the villages of Shyroke and Chervona Dolyna were shelled. The hits were mainly outside the settlements; two agricultural buildings of households were damaged. There are no casualties. Shelling of the territory and nearby settlements of the Berezneguvate community continues.
KHERSON REGION
Yesterday half of the day, the entire territory of the Kherson region was without electricity and water supply, light and water appeared closer to the evening. According to preliminary information from Khersonoblenergo, the occupiers disconnected two 750 kilovolt lines from Zaporizhzhia NPP, which supply the entire Kherson region.
In general, the situation is difficult. The troops of the Russian Federation are shelling the positions of the Armed Forces and civilian infrastructure from tanks, barrel and rocket artillery. They also continue to carry out airstrikes in Beryslav district. There were reports of explosions in Kakhovka and Chaplinka; residents of Oleshok reported a fire in the forest.
Read the full report at Ukrainian Freedom News.
🎙🎙🎙 Chicago WGN Radio Daily Ukraine Report:
From 25 August:
Journalist and editor of ‘Ukrainian Freedom News’ Joe Lindsley talked about the friendship between Zelenskiy and Boris Johnson, and the aftermath of the weird emotions of Ukrainian Independence Day under frequent nationwide air-alarms. You can listen here.