In the Kharkiv region, Russians hit a man who was carrying bread to people with a projectile

The invaders continue to terrorize the civilian population of Ukraine. Russian terrorists fired a projectile at a car carrying bread.

The tragedy happened on November 7 around 10 am in the Kharkiv region. This was announced by the deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Tymoshenko.

The driver of the car was injured

Kyrylo Tymoshenko said that the driver was hospitalized with injuries. A Russian projectile hit one of the civilian cars that was delivering bread to populated areas of the Kupyan district.

The Armed Forces completely liberated Kupyansk on September 9. However, the occupiers continue to terrorize its residents with constant shelling.

How much territory in Kharkiv Oblast is still under occupation?

Almost the entire Kharkiv region of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has already been liberated and cleared of the occupiers. However, as of November 7, a small part of the region is still under occupation.

Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the Office of the President, told about this. According to him, the invaders still control 1-2.5% of the territory of Kharkiv Region.

Podolyak noted that the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv Oblast has slowed down somewhat. The fact is that there are more and more occupiers, because mobilized people are coming to them.

In addition, the advisor to the President’s Office added that the Russians have a large arsenal of Soviet weapons. However, the Armed Forces are still moving forward, despite these difficulties.

The head of the community in the suburbs of Kharkiv told how he was captured by the Russians. Mykola Sikalenko, the head of the Tsirkuniv community, reported on his stay in enemy torture camps.

For 2.5 months, Tsirkunivska community was under occupation. On May 7, the community was liberated by the Armed Forces, but it was under fire on the demarcation line.

After the beginning of the invasion, Mykola Sikalenko did not leave the community.

“In the first days of the occupation, it was unclear with food, everything was unclear. Some people wanted me to go to cooperate with the Russians to transport food, I said: “If I go to cooperate, I will become a Gauleiter, I will never allow this. I will die of hunger, I will not cooperate with them.” Then we found an initiative group, little by little they started going to the Russians to take products,” says Mykola Sikalenko.

While the community was under occupation, people ate what they had in the cellar.

“We are a rural area, we have such a concept as a cellar: our own vegetables, stocks, our own twists – this saved a lot. And then the food got better, we did not starve, and when the community was liberated, we had volunteers working here, supplying a lot of food.” – said the head of Tsirkunivsk community

Mykola Sikalenka said that on March 21 he was kidnapped by the Russian military

“They came with gunfire, tied me up, put a bag on my head and took me away… They encouraged me to cooperate, froze me so that I would become non-controversial, so that I would decide to cooperate with them. To beat – not to beat. They just froze. They did not give food, they gave water. And later they let him go. On the morning of March 27, they opened the door, they said – leave,” Mykoly Sikalenko said.

One of the occupiers with the call sign “Vladivostok”, who was the head of the illegal military administration, demanded the seal of the village council from the head of the community. Mykola Sikalenko said that he refused to give the seal.

Mykola Sikalenko believes that before the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation troops on the territory of Ukraine, Tsirkunivsk community was successful. The community included three large settlements (Tsyrkuny, Cherkassy Tyshki, Ruski Tyshki) and 4-5 small hamlets. Before the invasion of the Russian Federation, about 10 thousand people lived in the community, now – 2.5 thousand people.

“We had a fairly successful community: 80% of the streets were paved, all streets had lighting,” Mykola Sikalenko said.

The occupation and hostilities caused significant damage to the community. Almost all the houses in Tsirkuny and Russian Tyshki were damaged.

   “The circuses were badly beaten. 80-90% of the buildings were damaged, 30-40% were completely destroyed. In our community there is a settlement of Russian Tyshki, in general, probably all of them are 100% there. The situation is especially difficult there,” said Mykola Sikalenko.

According to preliminary data, 50 residents of the community died during the war.

After the liberation, more than a thousand people returned home. The field of housing and communal services is gradually recovering.

“Thanks to Merefagaz, gas supply was restored to us. This encourages people to return. But there are a lot of mutilated buildings, not everyone will be able to survive the winter here, but many have returned. 1,200 people remained, more than a thousand returned,” said Mykola Sikalenko. Since February 24, there is no light. “I am an energy engineer by education, I worked all the time as an energy engineer, I think that it will be easier to redo the network than to restore what is already there,” the head of the community reports.

Little by little, the medical field is being restored in the community: two doctors from the hospital have returned, and they conduct appointments twice a week.

A humanitarian worker is constantly coming to the community. According to the head of the community, the amount of humanitarian aid is so large that it should be reduced.

“Now we already have an overrun of rubber aid, I’ll tell you. People are a little used to seeing a humanitarian almost every day. I’m already asking for volunteers – don’t come, take them where the new cities have been freed, people are in trouble there,” says the head of Tsirkunivsk community.

Other freed communities found themselves in a difficult situation. There is no electricity in Borova, but heating and water are on schedule. A month after the liberation, power lines continue to be demined in Borova. Due to the lack of electricity, there is still no heating in high-rise buildings and administrative buildings in the Borivska community.

In Vovchansk, the gas supply, which was transiting from the territory of the Russian Federation, was stopped. Restoration of gas supply, according to the local management, is impossible. The local authorities are inclined to the fact that it is impractical to start heating, the issue of mass evacuation of the population and accommodation of people in student dormitories in Kharkiv is being considered.

The Russians destroyed and looted a modern farm.

In the village of Shestakove, Kharkiv Region, a farm was destroyed, and the carcasses of the killed animals have not yet been collected. The village was liberated in May, then some of the animals that survived managed to be evacuated, but by September the front was very close and the enterprise was constantly shelled. Only when the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated almost the entire Kharkiv region during the counteroffensive did employees begin to return here. Cows are also being returned from evacuation.

“During the occupation and all the military actions in the village, our veterinarians could not take care of the animals, scheduled vaccinations were not carried out. Because of this, the cows got sick. And one more reason – all the animals were under shelling. Each animal could have shrapnel from shells – it can also be the cause of death after some time,” said Serhiy Yatsenko, the chief agronomist of the farm.

The dairy farm of the “Agromol” enterprise was one of the largest in Ukraine. There they milked 40 tons of milk a day, grew wheat and sunflowers, and produced sugar. However, the Russians destroyed everything. Two-thirds of the three thousand cows were killed, noted Serhiy Yatsenko.

The enterprise had the latest equipment, calving for cows with hot water, “smart” cow sheds with a special temperature, air conditioning. Lamps were lit in different colors for better appetite and sleep. After the invasion of Russia, the entrance was blocked due to shelling, and the cows died of hunger.

The farm still did not have time to collect all the carcasses. Also, the remains of shells are still lying on the territory of the farm. The farm was destroyed at the end of February, hit by multiple rocket launchers and bombed by aircraft. Already in the first days of the war, there was no electricity or communication here. It happened that 200 shells arrived, Yatsenko said.

The occupiers moved in at the enterprise in March. At first, the employees who remained on the farm tried to take care of the animals, but the situation continued to deteriorate. As a result, only a few people were left to care for the animals. The occupiers let them in with their passports, but at any moment they could simply forbid them from entering the territory. It happened that they were not allowed to enter the territory for five days, during which time no one fed the animals.

“There were cases where a cow that was walking yesterday was lying down, and either a leg or a part of its body had been cut off from it. They simply killed the cows, cut off the parts that they liked best. And they left it like that,” said the agronomist.

The occupiers covered themselves with livestock as a shield, hid in sheds, and stored ammunition and equipment there.

Worker Kateryna Kazenna stayed with the animals throughout the occupation. In one of the barns, she showed the mats on the walls left by the occupiers. And they were written with mistakes, she claims. The Russians stole tractors, planters, and even took fodder for cows. According to her, they were surprised that cattle live better in Ukraine than people in Russia – with plastic windows and boilers.

About 90% of the farm was destroyed, the company says. Everything is in ruins, the losses in the agricultural farm have not even been calculated yet, and with the destruction of this enterprise alone, the state has lost over UAH 14 billion, the State Inspectorate has calculated.

Russian troops have been on the territory of the Kharkiv region since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine – from February 24.

In late August – early September, the Ukrainian military launched a counteroffensive in the south and east of the country.

As of October 25, 1.8% of the region’s territory was under the control of the Russian occupation forces in the Kharkiv region, the regional military administration noted.