At night, at 2:30am, there was an air raid alarm. The alarm was canceled only at 7:30am. We have never had such a long air alarm before. A television tower was bombed and destroied in Rivne (Antopil), so now there is no local radio and television signal. Only cable TV networks work.
**** Zhytomyr region was also bombed.
There were two air raids during the night. One is long from 3 am to 5am, the second is short at 7am. The long air alarm - it allegedly bombed the Yavoriv military training center in the Lviv region, where the Russians fired 8 missiles. There is no information about the casualties, but it was previously reported that there were no casualties. A short alarm - there was a raid on the airfield in Ivano-Frankivsk.
*** "Deutsche Welle" reports that at the Yavoriv training center 9 people were killed, 57 wounded. 30 rockets were fired at the training center. Debris clearance and firefighting continues.
*** The Lviv administration reports that at 12 o'clock all fires at the Yavoriv training center have been extinguished. The number of people killed was 35, and 134 were injured.
At 5 am there was an air raid alarm. I suggested to my wife not to run to the bomb shelter, but to cover herself with a blanket and continue to sleep. So we did, but we no longer slept, but just lay in bed. At 7 am we got up, washed and had to go to mother-in-law, pick and feed her. We decided to take our "alarm's" backpacks with us. As soon as we were out the door, the alarm went off. The alarm was long, about two hours.
*** Yesterday there was a report that a Russian drone, which allegedly flew from Ukraine, crashed near Zagreb. Croatian police found the remains of an old TU-141 Strizh drone. Ukraine and Russia have such drones. The news reported that the drone had flown from Ukraine through Romania and Hungary and crashed near Zagreb in an area called Jarun. There is a village of Yarun in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. Perhaps the Russians confused the coordinates and flew to the wrong place.
In the morning there were two air alarms. The first after 4 am, the second at 7 am. The Russians did airstrikes on Dnipro, Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk. In Dnipro, rockets fell near a kindergarten, a residential building and a two-story shoe factory. One person had been killed. During the air strikes on Ivano-Frankivsk and Lutsk, the warning system did not work. The Russians fired 4 missiles at the Lutsk airfield. 2 soldiers had been killed, 6 people were injured. There were two more alarms around noon, and one in the evening. That is, there were five of them in total. I read on the Ternopil website that three rockets were shot down over Dubno, which were headed for the Ternopil region, or further. But no explosions were heard in Dubno. In the evening, The Current Time reported in the news that there was an attack on an aircraft repair plant in Lutsk. I called my friend Volodymyr in Lutsk. He said that the strike was on the airfield, not the plant. Volodymyr used to work at this plant.
The Russians reported that they killed the former Minister of Internal Affairs jf Ukraine Arsen Avakov with a "point bomb" strike in Kharkiv. But Arsen Avakov released a video on YouTube that he is in Kyiv, not Kharkiv.
*** Talks between Ministers of Foreign Affairs Lavrov and Dmytro Kuluba took place in Antalya (Turkey). At the press conference, Lavrov stated that Russia has not attacked anyone, does not plan to attack other countries, and they did not even attack Ukraine.
*** There was an air raid at night. I did not sleep because of it. The city of Korosten was shelled from Belarus. Three people had been killed. Two of them are Belarusians.
Instead of the traditional morning air alert, there was a short one in the middle of the day. It lasted about 15 minutes.
*** According to CIA Director William Burns, the Russians lost 2,000 to 4,000 people in the war. Our military reports about 12,000 dead Russians. The Russian authorities recognize no more than 500 dead.
*** According to the reports of the 24 TV channel, the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine stated that they recorded about 20 cases of attempts by men with Russian passports to cross the border. It are Ukrainians want to escape from the army. The men received Russian passports at the Russian Consulate before the war, without renouncing their Ukrainian citizenship.
***On the entrance gate of the church of the Moscow Patriarchate, in our neighborhood of the city, a large Ukrainian flag was raised. A couple of days ago, the leadership of this church condemned the Russian aggression and issued a decree not to mention the head of the Russian church, Cyril, during the prayer. During the war, in Donbas, the churches of the Moscow Patriarchate did not conduct prayers and did not collect money to help the Ukrainian army, as all churches of all denominations in Ukraine did.
*** In Mariupol, the Russians bombed a maternity hospital and a children's hospital. It's terrible!
Sasha K. called from Chernivtsi. He told some local news. There are a lot of refugees from the east of the country and from Kyiv in the city. Kyivans, mostly in expensive cars, can be seen by license plates. Those who are poorer walk around the city center wondering and taking pictures. Gasoline in Chernivtsi costs UAH 45/liter. Sasha said that the locals were transporting men who were prohibited from leaving (18-60 years old) to Romania in minivans for 10 people. They take 2,000 USD from each. Black market's currency converters purchase dollars at 35 UAH/1 US dollar.
