Timeline: day 58 of Ukraine's defense against russia's aggression

Mariupol Spring...

Alice Smahina

Today is April 22. russia's military attack on Ukraine has been going on for almost two months. We're reporting on all the current news. The article will be constantly updated.

What about today?

Key points

Spring in Mariupol

Yesterday, on Maundy Thursday, our soldiers cleared our skies of russian flying crap. On April 21, 2022, 15 air targets of the russian occupiers were destroyed:

• 3 planes;
• 3 helicopters;
• 9 UAVs (of operational and tactical level).

In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, 10 attacks by the russian occupiers were repulsed over the past 24 hours, 6 tanks, 8 armored and 15 units of motor vehicles, and 4 artillery systems were destroyed. We believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let's win together!

Total enemy combat losses from 24.02 to 22.04 (approximately):

"Unfortunately, the horde rejected the proposal to establish an Easter truce.

This shows very well how the leaders of this state actually treat the Christian faith, and one of the most joyful and important holidays. But we remain hopeful. Hope for peace, hope that life will overcome death," Zelenskyy said in his daily video statement.

"Losses for the Ukrainian economy already amount to more than $500 billion. GDP may fall by 30 to 50% this year. In the long run, the reconstruction and restoration of Ukraine will cost at least $600 billion. On behalf of the President of Ukraine, the Government with the world leaders call on the whole world to support Ukraine, to support freedom and democracy," said the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal.

These photos show objects that were found and demined by employees of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the combat zone. russian soldiers are real monsters.

To date, 208 children have died in Ukraine due to the occupiers, and more than 594 children have been injured in the full-scale armed aggression of the russo-Nazis.

Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov accused the UN of indulging russian war crimes and said that if Ukraine was provided with the necessary weapons and real sanctions were imposed, russian aggressors could be expelled from Ukraine in a few months.

"russia's war against Ukraine also killed the post-war world order and security. russia has done everything to prevent the creation of international security institutions. How can the UN Security Council, where Moscow is a permanent member, fulfill its peacekeeping mission? What security and cooperation in Europe can be discussed when one of the OSCE member states attacked another and killed thousands of civilians?" Reznikov said.

 Humanitarian corridors 

Due to the danger on the routes today, April 22, there will be no humanitarian corridors. Iryna Vereshchuk appeals to all those who are waiting for the evacuation: be patient, please hold on!

French President Emmanuel Macron has called on russia to allow Mariupol residents to leave the city. He announced this on Twitter. "In Mariupol, the situation is only getting worse. Tens of thousands of civilians have been trapped. I once again call on russia to respect international humanitarian law, allow residents to leave the city, allow humanitarian aid to enter," the statement said.

Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov has promised to help evacuate people living in areas of the city that are under constant enemy fire. "I want to appeal to all residents of the Pivnichna Saltivka, Piatyhatky and other areas that are under constant fire from the russian aggressor. Yes, it is not easy, but we are ready to evacuate you. I beg you to decide to save your lives. We will take you out and settle in normal conditions," Terekhov said in a video message on the evening of April 21.

Residents of Sloviansk are also asked to evacuate. "The night passed anxiously, the city was shelled. It was probably cluster bombs. Fortunately, there were no casualties. Once again, I urge you to evacuate!" said Vadym Liakh, head of the city's military-civil administration.

"Yesterday morning we tried to break through humanitarian corridors from three settlements in the Kherson region. The occupiers did not cease fire, so the corridors did not open," said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. Residents of the Kherson region remain hostages of the occupiers.

Meanwhile, in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, for the opportunity to evacuate, people are ready to give away apartments…

12:30 – russia does not agree to open a humanitarian corridor for civilians hiding from the shelling of Azovstal to put pressure on the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said Deputy Prime Minister Vereshchuk.

14:30 – On Friday, April 22, 70 people were evacuated from the Luhansk region, 25 of them left Popasna, although the russians opened fire on the bus. The head of the Luhansk regional military administration Serhii Haidai reported about it.

Trophies of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Three more enemy tanks were destroyed by 93 Mechanized Brigade Kholodnyi Yar near Izium!

According to the Washington Post, the Ukrainian army now has more tanks than the russian army. As a result of 57 days of war, the russian occupiers lost hundreds of units of equipment, while the Armed Forces regularly receive assistance from partner countries. As a result, the Ukrainian military now has more combat-ready tanks and armored vehicles than the enemy.

Ukraine's talks with russia

putin will meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in moscow on April 26, Peskov said. At the same time, Turkish President Erdogan plans to call Zelenskyy and putin in the coming days to offer a meeting in Istanbul.

Ukraine, in turn, issued an ultimatum to russian negotiators that "holding a so-called "referendum" by the russian occupiers in the Kherson region will put an end to the negotiations."

Who's coming to Ukraine? 

About financial aid, weapons, and volunteer fighters

Slovenia will hand over 54 M-84 tanks to Ukraine, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports.

Germany promises to allocate €37 million for the reconstruction of Ukraine; the funds will go to restore electricity and housing, which were destroyed during russia's invasion.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal met with the Minister of Defense of the United States Lloyd Austin. During the meeting, Mr. Shmyhal stressed that Ukraine needs a continuous supply of modern and powerful weapons in order to bring the victory of the Ukrainian people closer. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has assured that Ukraine will not be left alone, and the United States will continue to provide military assistance to strengthen the Ukrainian army.

France is handing over to Ukraine CAESAR artillery units and batches of Milan anti-tank missiles. "We still supply a significant amount of equipment, from Milan to Caesar, including several weapons. I think we must continue to follow this path," Macron said. France will also train 40 Ukrainian servicemen to use the mentioned weapons.

News from partners

Dalip Singh, the deputy White House National Security Adviser on international economics, told an online seminar that the United States saw signs of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) supporting russia's armed forces. "Chinese corporations and banks are generally cautious and do not allow Western circumvention of sanctions against russia. However, there is evidence that the PLA provides support to the russian armed forces through a number of direct and indirect channels," Singh said. He also added that relations between russia and China actually have boundaries, and the United States must use this to find ways to cooperate with Beijing.

Japan officially recognized the Kuril Islands as occupied. The new edition of the diplomatic directory "Blue Book of Diplomacy" officially named the Kuril Islands illegally occupied territory. Japan has not called them that since 2003.

Kyrgyzstan has urged its citizens not to wear Z-marked clothes on May 9, which has become a symbol of russia's invasion of Ukraine. An official statement from the officials said that such clothing "promotes incitement to ethnic hatred" and warned of responsibility. Costume rental companies also urged not to rent a military uniform with the ruscist symbol Z.

The UK will return its embassy in Kyiv next week, Prime Minister Johnson reports.

Germany is ready to become a guarantor of Ukraine's security, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview with Spiegel. At the same time, there are conditions, among which is the complete withdrawal of russian troops from the territory of Ukraine.

As for Britain, according to Boris Johnson, this country will not give Ukraine security guarantees similar to Article 5 of the NATO Charter. That is, in the event of an attack on Ukraine, the guarantor countries will not deploy their troops and close the skies; Johnson sees these guarantees through the provision of weapons, training of the Ukrainian military, and the exchange of intelligence.

What's in russia?

Unknown people are burning military enlistment offices in Mordor. It is already known about 5 such cases in Moscow, Ivanovo, Sverdlovsk regions, Voronezh, and also in Mordovia. The reason is that local people are trying to stop the mobilization by destroying men's personal files.

And russia ran out of Lada cars with an automatic transmission. There will be no new cars on the market for at least another year. This was reported by the Lada dealership in Togliatti. In a country that does not even produce nails on its own, one cannot hope for the mythical "revival of the car industry," especially in the face of sanctions.

Two-time Olympic swimming champion Yevgeny Rylov of russia was suspended from all competitions and events under the auspices of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) for participating in a rally in support of the war at the Luzhniki Stadium on March 18.

Reuters and The Times report on thousands of Ethiopian volunteers who are interested in joining the russian military for a reward. According to the publications, queues of dozens of people who register with security guards line up near the russian embassy in Addis Ababa every day. They are attracted by rumors of a reward for mercenaries of $2,000, which, however, is not confirmed. Representatives of the russian embassy deny recruiting mercenaries.

TASS published the goals of the "second phase of the special operation" of the horde:

• Control over Donbas
• Creation of an overland corridor to Crimea
• Control over the South of Ukraine and access to Transnistria
• There'll be a warship for you, not a corridor with control!

And the governor of the Voronezh region called on the members of the "Immortal Regiment" to bring portraits of participants of the "special operation" in Ukraine to meetings.

A resident of Novosibirsk was also affected by the war in Ukraine. However, his comrades were to blame for his suffering. Sergei Zelensky, a 45-year-old resident of Novosibirsk, cannot get a job because of his last name. Zelensky tried to find a job through the employment center, but all employers, learning about the name, refused to hire him. On Friday, April 22, he went on a hunger strike, warning the governor of the region and the media.

russian deputies are gushing with new (in fact – no) ideas. At the legislative level, they propose to recognize the United States as "russia's main opponent," a term they want to enshrine in the law on combating unfriendly actions of countries.

russian lies

Information from the Ukrainian special services: russia is collecting the wreckage of Bayraktars for provocations on its territory. Yesterday, russian troops were tasked to urgently collect and deliver to the territory of Belgorod, Kursk, and Bryansk regions the wreckage of downed Ukrainian Bayraktars and helicopters. The FSB and the russian Defense Ministry are preparing large-scale provocations in these areas, with explosions at civilian infrastructure and in residential areas. The Ukrainian armed forces will be found guilty of the terrorist attacks, and the site of the "terrorist attacks" will be found in the wreckage of Ukrainian aircraft, allegedly "shot down" by russian air defenses.

The Ministry of Defense of the Orcs reported that in the village of Voskresenske, the Ukrainian military conducted staged filming of "acts of looting" committed by orcs. The Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine warns: this is a fake!

Today, russian media reported that 10 tanks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly crossed the border and attacked the Belgorod region. The head of the Belgorod district administration had to refute the delusion of propaganda publications. Even a russian official has been shocked by such outright lies.

Hackers hacked into Ukrainian TV and reported in a moving line about the alleged "assassination of the president" and asked to "lay down their arms." Do not be fooled by such messages! President in place, the Armed Forces do not give up!

Sanctions on the aggressor!

"The main purpose of sanctions against Moscow and new proposals to strengthen them is to force the aggressor to end this terrible war against Ukraine." This was stated by the head of the Office of the President, Andrii Yermak, during the presentation of the Action Plan to strengthen sanctions against Muscovy, which was developed by the Yermak-McFaul international expert group.

It is necessary to put pressure on russia in all possible ways. The UK is now imposing an embargo on imports of silver, timber, and high-quality products from russia. The United Kingdom will also increase tariffs on 96 categories of goods from russia and Belarus. These included diamonds and rubber, as well as live animals, food, clothing, vehicles, musical instruments, and more. With the new sanctions, the total amount of import duties and bans on russian goods will reach more than 1 billion pounds.

The White House said that the United States is not currently discussing with russia the possibility of lifting sanctions, "this dialogue is impossible without Ukraine's participation."

A similar statement was made today by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbok. According to her, the European Union will not lift sanctions on russia as long as russian troops remain in Ukraine. "The EU will not back down from sanctions until putin's weapons are silenced and he withdraws his troops from Ukraine. We will increase pressure on the russian military machine and at the same time do everything we can to further support Ukraine with weapons and equipment," Baerbock said.

Yermak-McFaul Group's plan to strengthen sanctions against russia presented:

• A complete embargo on russian gas and oil
• Freezing all banking assets of russia and Belarus
• Tightening trade restrictions on russian goods
• Identifying the russian federation and Belarus as sponsors of terrorism, the russian army and political parties, terrorist organizations
• Including russia in the FATF blacklist
• Expanding personal sanctions against officials and their families, state corporations
• Increasing transparency and deepening coordination between allies, states, and partners
• Transparency of financial and trade transactions to hinder trade and investment in Russia
• Introducing means of secondary sanctions against individuals and legal entities that will provide services to russia and Belarus to circumvent restrictive measures.

The Netherlands intends to abandon imports of russian energy by 2023. The Dutch government will subsidize energy companies to fill its Bergermeyer gas storage facility to 70% capacity by the end of the year, Ministry of Economy and Climate Policy spokesman Peter Ten Bruggencate told CNN on Friday.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken out against the embargo on russian gas imports, saying it would not stop the war. He added that the ban could lead to "a dramatic economic crisis, cuts in millions of jobs, and the closure of factories that will never open again."

Life considering hostilities 

Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba instructed to make the issuance of id cards to return to Ukraine free to solve the problem of people who were forced to go abroad without documents. The minister announced this on his Twitter account on Thursday.

Metropolitan Epiphanius urged parishioners to stay home for Easter and watch the services live.

Ukrposhta announced the issue of another stamp. They started to sell the stamp "Russian warship" on April 12 and in 8 days people bought the entire circulation. Now you can only buy it online. Therefore, Ukrposhta decided to issue another stamp, which will have a larger circulation and, according to the company's CEO, will definitely appeal to everyone.

And at a charity auction, the postage stamp with the "Russian ship" was bought for 5 million hryvnias. 56 participants from more than four countries competed for the right to receive the stamp, Prozorro.Sales reports. During the auction, the price of the lot increased 200 times, up to five million hryvnias. For five million hryvnias, the winner of the lot will receive a set of stamps and envelopes with the signatures of the author of the phrase, Marine Roman Hrybov, and General Director of Ukrposhta Ihor Smilianskyi. As soon as the winner of the auction pays the proposed amount, the money will be transferred to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine!

By the way, Ukraine has recognized the sunken cruiser "Moscow" as an object of its underwater cultural heritage. In the register of cultural sites, the former flagship of the Black Sea Fleet is listed under number 2064.

WizzAir has started selling tickets to Kyiv, Lviv, and Odesa for July, as well as tickets from Kyiv, Lviv, and Odesa. We believe in Victory and the Armed Forces, as WizzAir believes!

The last day of the Invictus Games is over in The Hague, the Netherlands. In total, Ukraine won 5 gold, 5 silver, and 6 bronze medals at the Games.

Kyiv and the region

Photo of our legendary Mriia plane destroyed by the ruscists. The National Police is currently investigating the crash site

The good news is that public transport is being restored between Irpin and Kyiv. The first minibusses are scheduled to launch on April 25.

Deputy Head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Tymoshenko reported on restoration in the Kyiv region:

• more than 300 kilometers of roads and streets are cleared;
• traffic was resumed at seven crossings. Work on the construction of eight crossings near the destroyed bridges continues;
• in Bucha, they managed to partially restore mobile service. The city has also started installing windows;
  electricity and water supply were restored in Brovary;
• during the day the light was connected in 29 settlements, and gas supply was restored in 91 settlements;
  in the liberated Chornobyl, Ivankiv, and Dymer, SES units were fully operational.

In the capital, 815 shelters have been connected to the Internet, which will allow people not to lose touch during hostilities. This was announced by Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Petro Olenych on Telegram.

And this is very important because the duration of airstrikes in Kyiv exceeded 500 hours; this is more than a third of the war. Since the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion, airstrikes in Kyiv have sounded 309 times, 37% of the time during all 56 days of the war.

Another 11 killed citizens were found in mass burial sites in Borodianka and Havronshchyna.

In total, the bodies of 1,084 civilians have already been found in the Kyiv region. Between 50% and 75% of them were killed with small arms, depending on the location.

And this is Mrs. Maria and her dog. That's how they both sat when it was hell in Horenka (near Bucha). The old woman wound a handkerchief on the dog so that she would not be so afraid of the shelling. So that Dog. Was not afraid. We have never been brothers with the horde.

Donetsk and Luhansk regions

The General Staff reports:

• The enemy carries out assault operations in the area of ​​the settlement of Zarichne and, with forces of the battalion, tries to advance in the area of ​​the settlement of Rubizhne.
• Defensive battles with the enemy continue in the direction of the settlements of Novtoshkivske and Popasna.
• The russian army continues to try to carry out assault operations in the area of ​​the town of Maryinka with the support of artillery.
• The enemy also tried to conduct reconnaissance by fighting in the Trudoliubivka area, suffered losses, and retreated to previously occupied positions.

The enemy continues to suffer losses. According to the available information, on April 20 this year, another consignment of wounded servicemen of the Armed Forces of the russian federation (about 220 people) and more than 50 bodies of the killed invaders were taken to the central district hospital of Novoaidar.

Luhansk region: during the day the tussian army carried out 11 shellings: Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk, Popasna, Rubizhne, and the Hirske community. 7 houses were destroyed, and 4 civilians and three policemen were injured.

An air rocket did not explode in one of the houses in Sievierodonetsk. It was found in time by deminers of the State Emergency Service, who checked the high-rise building for the remains of explosive devices, said the head of the regional military administration on April 22 in the morning. "Two 152-mm artillery shells, one 122-mm artillery shell, and an unmanned C-8 rocket-propelled grenade were found in one of the long-suffering high-rise buildings in the new districts of the city. It's a result of air bombardment. All devices have been removed and disposed of. There are no threats to people who stay in apartments and basements," Serhii Haidai said.

The Defense Intelligence reports that putin will throw the Russian guard and the FSB at Azovstal. "russians can really refuse a large-scale assault" of Azovstal. But, according to our data, they plan to involve the Russian guard, other structures, including the FSB, which will continue to attack the plant to destroy our resistance," said the representative of the Defense Intelligence Skybytskyi.

And for the civilians of Mariupol, the russian occupiers organized "filtration" camps, where men are divided into categories. Some are immediately thrown into prisons, others are forced to do hard work, said the mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boichenko.

According to the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko, thanks to satellite images, another burial place of Mariupol residents was found. This time in the Livoberezhne district near the cemetery of Vynohradne. This once again confirms that the occupiers are removing the dead Mariupol residents in every district of the city.

The russians continue to purposefully destroy the civilian infrastructure of the Donetsk region. Today, the biggest blow was inflicted on Sloviansk: at night, the russians fired on the city, probably with cluster munitions. 9 high-rise buildings and 12 private houses, a school, a shop, and bus stops were damaged. Work is underway to restore electricity and gas supplies.

In Lyman, the russians used the Uragan MLRS and aimed at the Regional Trauma Hospital. The administrative building in Oleksandrivka was completely destroyed. A multi-story building was also damaged there. According to preliminary information, there are no victims. In Svitlodarsk, one high-rise building was damaged at night; no one was injured. Dobropillia also came under artillery fire: the administrative building was damaged and at least two people were wounded.

In total, the occupiers fired on 20 settlements today, destroying or damaging 34 civilian objects, said Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration.

Rubizhne has been under fire since the morning, even the evacuation bus could not reach the city, according to the head of the Luhansk regional administration Serhii Haidai. It was not easy in Popasna, where the bus returned with damages, because it was hit by russian fire. But 33 locals were taken away. In these two settlements today two high-rise buildings where two apartments, and also a private house that caught fire are damaged. One person was rescued from the shelling.

Kharkiv region

Kharkiv: At night, the occupiers occasionally fired artillery strikes again. Warehouse buildings were on fire in the Kyiv district of the city, no one was injured.

In the region, active fighting continues in the Izium direction.

On April 22, russian troops shelled the town of Korotych in the Kharkiv region. A man was killed and six other civilians were wounded in the shelling, the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office said. Warehouses and trucks were damaged and destroyed.

The mayor of Balaklia, Ivan Stolbov, is accused of treason, he was declared a suspect in absentia. After the occupation of the city in early March by russian troops, the mayor sided with the enemy. On March 28, the treacherous mayor held a meeting of the leadership of the Balaklia City Council, during which he agitated his deputies to be loyal to both the occupying forces and russia as a whole. On April 7, it became known that Balakliia Mayor Ivan Stolbovyi had left the community and gone to russia.

Zaporizhzhia region

Details of yesterday's strikes on Zaporizhzhia from the head of the regional military administration Oleksii Starukh: The first missile fell on the island of Khortytsia near the Preobrazhensky Bridge. At that moment, the Zaporizhzhia-Lviv evacuation train was moving across the bridge, when an explosive wave knocked out the windows of four cars. The windows of cars moving on the bridge also flew out. The second blow damaged a sanatorium on the island of Khortytsia. 8 citizens were injured.

The guerrillas have already killed about 100 occupiers in Melitopol, said Mayor Ivan Fedorov.

This morning an AN-26 plane crashed in Zaporizhzhia during a technical flight. There are victims. This is a civilian plane that had nothing to do with the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

And in the russian-occupied Enerhodar, the russians began to enroll locals in the queue for the issuance of 10 thousand rubles, according to the Defense Forces of the Zaporizhzhia region. According to the Defense Forces, in this way, they want to obtain from the population the necessary passport data on the "pseudo-referendum."

Sumy region

In Sumy, in the area of Romenska and Spartaka streets, work is underway to inspect residential buildings damaged during the airstrike. Reconstruction works are also underway in Okhtyrka and Konotop districts, the head of the Sumy regional state administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi informs.

Kherson region

Kherson region: strong explosions were heard on the outskirts of the city at night. The most critical situation is in the settlements bordering the neighboring regions. Almost all villages of Beryslav district (Novovorontsovka, Vysokopillia, Velykooleksandrivka, Kalynivka communities) and some villages of Kherson district (Chornobaivka, Stanislav communities) are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe.

Oleshky Mayor of Kherson region Yevhen Ryshchuk said that from April 23, russian troops would take control and responsibility for the city. "From tomorrow, russia will take full control and responsibility for the city. Now they are looking for a representative who would lead the city. I do not know, the names are not yet known."

In Kakhovka, the russian occupiers set up a torture room in the police station, Ombudsman Liudmyla Denisova said.

During the shelling of the village of Nova Zoria in the Kherson region by the russian military, two people were killed and another was seriously injured, and the Kherson Region Prosecutor's Office opened criminal proceedings for violating the laws and customs of war.

The head of the united territorial community from the Kherson region was released from russian captivity. The occupiers abducted Volodymyr Marchuk, head of the Novovorontsovka united territorial community, on April 21 while he was escorting a humanitarian convoy during an evacuation from the region. The invaders will be responsible for each prisoner!

Mykolaiv region

In the evening Mykolaiv suffered rocket attacks. There is no information about the victims as of this morning. In other areas of the region the situation is stable and under control.

Hospitals of the Mykolaiv region: buildings are damaged, windows are broken, all these are traces of full-scale invasion of the army of the russian federation into Ukraine. "This is not accidental damage, but the deliberate destruction of health care facilities that provide medical care. The whole essence of the russian army is in its terrorist nature," said Health Minister Viktor Liashko during a visit to health care facilities in Mykolayiv.

Chernihiv region

The railway connection from Kyiv to Chernihiv has been restored. Moreover, trains are now with new modern Ukrainian cars.

Demining of the region continues in the Chernihiv region. During the day, the group of demining works and underwater demining of the SES was involved in the disposal of explosive devices 18 times and found and seized 214 such items, including 2 air bombs: FAB-500 and FAB-250. A total of 16,267 explosive devices have been seized since the beginning of hostilities.

In Chernihiv, divers found and destroyed a high-powered air bomb that did not detonate during the ruscist bombing of the Chernihiv Bridge.

Dnipropetrovsk region

In Dnipro, in order to honor the memory of the defenders of Ukraine, two streets were renamed in honor of the Sicheslav and Kholodnyi Yar brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The corresponding decision was made by deputies during the regular session of the City Council.

Zhytomyr region

In Zhytomyr, they decided to dismantle a tank standing on Peremohy Square. According to Mayor Serhii Sukhomlin, this will be done symbolically on May 9. The tank was erected in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Victory over German troops in World War II and the liberation of Zhytomyr from occupation. Soviet tanks no longer have a place in Ukraine.

Kropyvnytskyi and the region

Two enemy missiles were shot down air defense over the Kirovohrad region yesterday, said Andrii Raikovych, Kirovohrad Regional State Administration.

Western Ukraine

At the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, activists found the grave of Stepan Charnetskyi, co-author of the anthem of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, "Oh, Red Viburnum in the Meadow." He was born in the Ternopil region and graduated from Lviv Polytechnic. He worked as an engineer but became famous for his extremely active creative work. Charnetskyi is the author of poetry, feuilletons, pamphlets, literary and artistic articles, essays on the history of Galician theater, reviews, art portraits, theater officer, director, and artistic director.