Bashtanka News Today

The National Police in Mykolaiv Oblast identified a 28-year-old Russian military mechanic from the 205th Motorized Infantry Brigade, who reportedly tortured civilians, the police said on April 8.

The first time Valeriya, a missileer with the 79th Brigade, destroyed a Russian tank, she said she immediately ran into her dugout to cry. But not out of fear or regret.

June to July 2022 – the horrors of torture, murder and mass graves revealed

Russian Shahed UAVs have damaged an agricultural facility and a shop building in Mykolaiv Oblast: a fire broke out, and one person was injured. Source: Defence Forces of Ukraine's South on Telegram Quote from Defence Forces of Ukraine's South: "A shell hit in the Bashtanka district of Mykolaiv Oblast has damaged warehouses belonging to an agricultural firm and a shop building.

A building has been damaged and a woman has been injured in the city of Kherson as a result of a Russian nighttime drone attack, an agricultural business has been struck in the Beryslav hromada in Kherson Oblast, and in the Bashtanka district in Mykolaiv Oblast drone debris has fallen on an outbuilding belonging to an agricultural firm [a hromada is an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories - ed.

“If you want to live, dig.” The words, often spoken by Ukrainian troops, are universal advice for trench warfare in general, but especially for both sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Normally expressed as advice to the individual soldier, the maxim now applies to the country as a whole.

During a nighttime drone attack, the Russians targeted civilian infrastructure facilities in Kherson and Beryslav districts in Kherson Oblast. There was also damage in Mykolaiv Oblast as a result of the fall of downed Shahed drone debris.

Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev, Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has stated that intelligence data and combat efficiency of the Ukrainian artillery and aircraft against the Russians helped to thwart Russia's plans to seize the Black Sea coast in Mykolaiv and Odesa oblasts at the onset of a full-scale war.

Ukraine’s air defenses reportedly shot down all of the drones and missiles over Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk and Khmelnytskyi oblasts.

The DREAM restoration management system will be open for testing for all communities in November, said the head of the DREAM project office, Viktor Nestulia.