Thursday results in the occupied territories of Donbas. The highlights
In the area of the Joint Forces Operation on July 22, three attacks from the side of the armed formations of the Russian Federation were recorded, - the JFO headquarters reported. The occupiers fired from 82 caliber mortars and heavy anti-tank grenade launchers in the area of Vodiane near Donetsk. Russian mercenaries fired at the Ukrainian positions twice from grenade launchers of various systems and small arms not far from the village of Pisky. There are no combat losses as a result of the enemy fire. The Ukrainian military returned fire to the shelling of the Russian occupation forces.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law on the temporary abolition of fines for violation of the procedure for entry and exit from the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine. The document concerns the situation when the residents of CADLO are forced to go to the free territory of Ukraine through the Russian Federation due to the fact that the occupiers closed passage through the demarcation line, making exceptions twice a week and only for those who have a residence permit in the territory controlled by Ukraine.
More than three thousand residents of CADO are currently being treated for coronavirus, and more than a thousand are being treated for pneumonia, which the "DNR occupiers" refuse to associate with COVID-19. These are the "official" data of the fake "DNR Ministry of Health". 219 cases of coronavirus disease were detected in the occupied part of the Donetsk region over the day. Another 17 patients died. In total, as of July 22, there were 46254 patients with COVID-19 infection in CADO, 3231 patients were undergoing treatment (inpatient and outpatient) and 3490 people died. In addition, the occupiers identified 148 more cases of "usual" pneumonia over the day, which is 5 cases more than in the past day. Of these, 118 patients were hospitalized. A total of 1251 patients with pneumonia are undergoing treatment, of which 582 are on oxygen support (+41 over the day).
Doctors registered 5994 cases of coronavirus infection in the occupied territory of the Luhansk oblast, separatist media wrote. It was also reported about seven more deaths over the past day.
Several teenagers have been injured in road accidents in the occupied Donetsk region in recent days. This was reported by the fake "DNR MIA" and eyewitnesses in social networks. Thus, in the village of Olhynka of the Amvrosiivka district, 12- and 13-year-old schoolchildren went to the reservoir on the Karpaty motorbike off-the-highway without having the skills of operating the vehicle. As a result, the motorbike driver lost control and the vehicle overturned - a 12-year-old motorbike driver and a 13-year-old passenger were injured and were taken to the Amvrosiivka Central Regional Hospital. In addition, a road traffic accident occurred in Donetsk on July 22, in which a child on a bicycle was hit. Eyewitnesses reported that the incident occurred in the area of Durna Balka, the cyclist is alive.
Inventive drivers in occupied Horlivka make patching using "advanced technologies" - with the help of cone firs. In particular, they used this "technology" on potholes along the Medychna Street.