Another day of fighting in Ukraine , where internet connection , and in particular in the Kiev region, dropped to about 80% of ordinary levels with the national energy company Ukrenergo which introduced a rolling blackout overnight.
This was announced by the Netblocks monitoring service.
Ukrenergo had already announced the possibility of such blackouts three days ago, following the Russian attacks on "the energy infrastructures in the central and northern regions of Ukraine".
Meanwhile, the Russian forces, after new drone attacks, hit the city of Mykolaiv , in southern Ukraine, this morning with S-300 missiles : it announced at 10:00 local time (9:00 in Italy ) Governor Vitaliy Kim, as reported by the Guardian. "There were no casualties or destruction," Kim wrote, "only the lawns were ruined."
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proclaimed martial law in the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
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The day by the hour:
Kiev, 544 settlements in the Kharkiv region freed
To date, 544 settlements have been liberated in the Kharkiv region, in eastern Ukraine, and 32 remain under Russian occupation: the governor of the region, Oleg Sinegubov, has announced, as reported by UNIAN. "We have a lot of work ahead of us to restore the functioning of state power in these territories," stressed Sinegubov. "Our army does not stop and continues to push the enemy out of our territory. In the past 6 days, the Ukrainian armed forces have liberated 19 settlements from the Russian occupation," he added.
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Air alert across Ukraine
Starting at 10:16 local time (9:16 Italian time, ed) an air raid warning was declared throughout Ukraine, with the exception of temporarily occupied Crimea. Local authorities make it known, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda.
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Ukraine, energy infrastructure hit in the south of the country
Russian forces hit an industrial company and an energy infrastructure in the Kryvyi Rih district, in the Dnipropetrovsk region of southern Ukraine in the early hours of this morning: the governor of the region, Valentyn Reznichenko, announced on Telegram as reports the Kyiv Independent. Severe damage is reported, but according to preliminary information there are no casualties, wrote Reznichenko.
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Kiev, new Russian attack in the south, 14 drones shot down
Russian forces again attacked the Mykolaiv region of southern Ukraine in the night with Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones and 14 of these aircraft were shot down by the Ukrainian army, the National Guard and the police. known the Ukrainian Southern Air Command, as reported by the Kyiv Independent.
(Unioneonline)