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Around 20,000 to 25,000 Russian soldiers are trying to storm Chasiv Yar and the settlements in the city's outskirts, the Khortytsia Group of Forces' spokesperson, Nazar Voloshyn, said on national TV on April 22.
Around 20,000 to 25,000 Russian soldiers are trying to storm Chasiv Yar and the settlements in the city's outskirts, the Khortytsia Group of Forces' spokesperson, Nazar Voloshyn, said on national TV on April 22. Chasiv Yar lies around 10 kilometers west of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast and 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Avdiivka, cities Russia captured in May 2023 and February 2024, respectively.
Ukrainian News Agency learned this from a statement on his Facebook page.
“The heart of a patriot, a fighter for Ukraine, a doctor of economic sciences - Cherniak Volodymyr Kyrylovych stopped beating. He died on the night of January 18, 2021 after a long struggle with covid,” the statement reads.
Cherniak died at the age of 80.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in November 2020, director general of the Pivdenne Design Bureau named after M.K. Yanhel (Dnipro), Oleksandr Dehtiariov, died from coronavirus.