As a result of shelling by Russian invaders in residential buildings in the Luhansk region, 24 fires occurred in a day, reports the head of the regional military administration Serhiy Gaidai in a telegram channel.

“In the morning the enemy was aiming at houses in Gorny and Popasnaya, in the afternoon? concentrated efforts on Rubizhne, in the evening - Lysichansk, where two more houses caught fire. On the territory of the region there were 24 fires in the housing stock as a result of shelling. All these strikes - on civilians, on their homes. The Russians are depriving them of their property and, worst of all, of their lives, and they are suffering losses at the front,” the report says..

It is noted that the invaders are inflicting air strikes and shelling civilian infrastructure, in particular, using multiple launch rocket systems in the areas of Kremennaya, Severodonetsk, Novotoshkivsky, Popasnaya, Novozvanovka.

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It is reported that a total of seven more attacks by the invaders were repulsed in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions - four tanks, 10 armored and 11 vehicles, two artillery systems were destroyed, and one aircraft and four unmanned aerial vehicles of the enemy were shot down.

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Earlier, Aleksey Arestovich, Advisor to the Head of the President’s Office, said that the most fierce battles between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Russian troops continue in the south-west of the Lugansk region and in the zone of the Joint Forces Operation. According to him, out of the nine operational directions of the offensive of the Russian troops, 2.5 remained since the beginning of the war..