{"id":189904,"date":"2022-07-07T01:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T22:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=189904"},"modified":"2022-07-08T01:27:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T22:27:18","slug":"day-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/day-133","title":{"rendered":"Day 133: Kharkiv university damaged by missile strike, Ukraine\u2019s new resistance tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Russian missile strike on Kharkiv hits university, kills one<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On the night of July 5 into July 6, Russian missile strikes hit Kharkiv\u2019s Novobavarskyi, Kyivskyi, and Osnovyanskyi districts. The Skovoroda National Pedagogic University was heavily damaged. A 40-year-old security guard was killed. The missiles were fired from Russia. The Russian forces strike Kharkiv\u2019s residential areas daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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State Emergency Service sappers inspect a building of H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University damaged by a Russian missile strike, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Kharkiv, Ukraine July 6, 2022.
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Ukraine embraces tactics to destroy Russia\u2019s ammunition depots across the frontline. Here\u2019s how it works<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first batch of advanced long-range weapons (including High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS) made it possible for Ukraine to break Russia\u2019s logistic chains near the frontline. They chains were already not very reliable and technologically advanced. Sending ammunition, food and other supplies to the frontline will become more difficult. Russia\u2019s superiority in artillery secures the advance of the Russian forces in Donbas. They use heavy fire and massive destruction as tactics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2014-2015, Russia built dozens of ammunition depots hidden in civilian buildings near railway stations in the parts of Ukraine it occupies. In the past weeks, Ukraine systematically struck those depots and new ones in the territories that Russia occupied after February 24, 2022. In the past month alone, between June 7 and July 7, the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted 20 massive strikes against those ammunition depots. The most recent strike was launched today, on July 6 against a target in occupied Kherson.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fire broke out as a result of the attack, advisor to the head of the Kherson regional military administration Serhiy Khlan said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia\u2019s ammunition depots were located near the railway station. An explosion preceded the fire, local residents said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia sends weekly up to 10,000 tons of ammunition, tanks, howitzers, and fuel to the occupied territories. Russia\u2019s ammunition depots and supply centers are now within the range of Ukrainian artillery and missiles. Russia cannot keep ammunition within 100 km from the frontline, and has to stop the trains 90-100 km from the frontline, so that Ukrainian artillery will not hit ammunition depots and echelons. Russia has to rely on trucks to supply its frontline units. At the same time, Russia has already lost more than 1,200 trucks. The rest are in use for several months already. It is a problem to service them somewhere other than in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n