The Armed Forces of Ukraine again launched a missile attack on the Antonovsky bridge across the Dnieper in Kherson, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civil administration of the Kherson region.

“There was one arrival, which led to the fire of a construction booth and a concrete mixer.

There is damage to the canvas, so we will continue to restore.

There are no critical damages, the bearing elements of the transport crossing were not affected, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

According to him, the shelling was carried out from the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, most of the missiles were intercepted by the air defense system.

Stremousov also assured that the Antonovsky Bridge will be restored and traffic will be launched.

In the second half of July, traffic was blocked at the transport facility due to damage caused by shelling by the Ukrainian military.

The renovation was scheduled to be completed this week.

Summary of the DNR and LNR

Ukrainian armed formations shelled the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic 62 times over the past day, a total of 425 units of various ammunition were used, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire said.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine used MLRS "Hurricane", "Grad", artillery 155, 152 and 120 mm.

“Under enemy fire were areas of 11 settlements of the republic: Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts), Gorlovka, Golmovsky, Metallist, Zaitsevo, Novobakhmutovka, Novoselovka, Panteleimonovka, Yasinovataya, Makeevka, Yelenovka,” the message says.

Three civilians became victims of Ukrainian shelling, 15 people received injuries of varying severity.

According to the data given, during the shelling, 25 housing constructions were damaged in the Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky districts of Donetsk and the Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka, as well as three civilian infrastructure facilities.

In turn, the official representative of the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic, Ivan Filiponenko, said that during the offensive, the Ukrainian military lost up to 53 personnel, four armored personnel carriers and seven units of special vehicles.

Zaporozhye region

Zaporozhye region is permanently leaving Ukraine, said Volodymyr Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the region.

“Zaporozhye region has set a course for reunification with Russia, and there will be no turning back.

Therefore, I advise the Zelensky regime to get used to it now and begin to perceive and identify the Zaporozhye region exclusively with Russia, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

Speaking about the referendum on joining the Russian Federation, he noted that it is scheduled for September: "The exact date of the referendum is being determined and will be publicly announced in the near future."

In addition, in his Telegram channel, he expressed gratitude to the Russian air defense systems, which protected the inhabitants of Melitopol from another missile strikes from the Ukrainian armed groups.

“The ban on the activities of Azov on the territory of the Russian Federation was obvious”

The militants of the Ukrainian nationalist regiment "Azov" * used prohibited means and methods of warfare, Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper.

“The facts of the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare by members of Azov have been established.

In the course of this work, we unequivocally came to conclusions about the activities of Azov as a nationalist formation based on Nazi ideology and supporting extremist organizations banned in Russia, ”he said.

According to him, the crimes committed by the Azov people can only be compared in their cruelty with the actions of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices during the Second World War.

“The filing of a lawsuit with the Supreme Court of Russia to recognize Azov as a terrorist organization and ban its activities on the territory of Russia was unconditional and obvious,” Krasnov explained.

He pointed out that during the trial, video and audio materials and eyewitness testimonies were presented, testifying to the torture and killing of civilians by militants, about deliberate attacks on civilian objects, about mining and planting explosive devices in places of residence of the civilian population.

On August 2, the Supreme Court of Russia, at the suit of the General Prosecutor's Office, recognized the Ukrainian nationalist battalion Azov as a terrorist organization and banned its activities in Russia.

* "Azov" - the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 08/02/2022.