► The hometown of Volodymyr Zelensky flooded
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Kharkiv region liberated from occupation on Wednesday August 15 in his “almost all” and promised ” victory “when his hometown of Kryvyi Rig was threatened with flooding after a Russian strike on water infrastructure.
Hit in the evening by seven Russian missiles, according to local authorities, Kryvyi Rig, in central Ukraine, and its 600,000 inhabitants are facing the sudden flooding of a river, the Ingulets, which threatens the center- city and another district.
“At the point of impact, we observe a flow of water of 100 m3 per second, which represents a large volume. The water level of the Ingulets changes every hour »said deputy head of the presidential administration Kyrylo Tymoshenko, while assuring that the situation is ” under control “.
► A man hits Volodymyr Zelensky’s car
Before his daily evening address, the president had also suffered a car accident in kyiv, when“a car collided” with his vehicle, according to his spokesperson.
“The president was examined by a doctor, no serious injuries were detected”said Serguiï Nikiforov in a press release published on Facebook overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, while the driver of the car himself “was transferred to an ambulance”.
► Strikes across the entire front line
In the Donetsk region, Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported shelling “across the entire front line”. That of the neighboring region of Lugansk, Serguiï Gaïdaï, announced that the Russian forces had regained control of the locality of Kreminna.
Armed with Western arms deliveries, Ukraine has recovered almost all of the Kharkiv region, bordering Russia, thanks to its counter-offensive, and obtained more modest territorial gains in the south, where it continues to hit bridges used by Russian forces.