Demolition of Mariupol Drama Theater, children suffered from shelling in Zaporizhzhia Oblast: last night's highlights
In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, a wall of a house collapsed as a result of shelling, and two children who were hiding behind it were hospitalized; in Mariupol, Russian occupiers demolished half of the Drama Theater building. Here is what you may have missed from the previous night.
Demolition of the Drama Theater in Mariupol
On December 22, Russians demolished half of the building of the Drama Theater in the temporarily occupied Mariupol, said the mayor's adviser Petro Andriushchenko.
“They just demolished it. So in two days, there will not be even a physical memory of it,” he wrote.
Shelling of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Russian occupants shelled Zaporizhzhia Oblast on December 22, as a result, two children were injured. The wall of the house they were hiding behind collapsed on them, said the head of the regional military administration Oleksandr Starukh.
“Today the enemy decided to bury two boys. Alive. A missile hit their house. They survived but the wall did not. Two heroes, three and fifteen years old. They survived where the stone could not stand,” he wrote.
The head of the Komyshuvakha community Yurii Karapetian also told about this case to Suspilne. According to him, the occupiers fired in the morning at the village of Mahdalynivka, where one of the houses was significantly damaged.
The wall collapsed, behind which two children were hiding. They were taken to Zaporizhzhia regional clinical children's hospital with minor injuries.
Kyiv's peace proposals
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he discussed Kyiv's peace proposals with his G7 counterparts after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Washington.
“I can just tell you that we are looking at what he [Zelenskyy] has put forward. I was just on the video with our G7 partners this morning. And this is one of the things we talked about,” Blinken said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's team plans to present a peace plan to end the war in February 2023, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Other news:
- Complete replacement of water supply networks in Mykolaiv will take more than one year and requires considerable funds, but the local authorities have already begun to prepare for this, said Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych;
- The United States will soon begin to train Ukrainian troops using Patriot air defense systems, the transfer of which was announced the day before, CNN writes;
- On December 22, Russian occupation troops conducted 54 strikes on Sumy Oblast, destroying civilian infrastructure, said the head of the regional military administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi.
- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called on Italians to turn off the lights for an hour “to understand what Ukrainians are going through”.
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