{"id":1263907,"date":"2025-07-16T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/latvian-official-injured-in-russian-strike-on-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:47:17","slug":"latvian-official-injured-in-russian-strike-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/latvian-official-injured-in-russian-strike-on-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvian official injured in Russian strike on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The mayor of the Latvian city of Orge, Egils Gelmanis, was injured as a result of Russian shelling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsm.lv\/raksts\/zinas\/latvija\/16.07.2025-ukraina-ievainots-ogres-novada-mers-egils-helmanis.a606983\/?utm_source=ESpoust&#038;utm_campaign=news&#038;utm_medium=socX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported<\/a> by the city municipality, LSM.lv reports.<\/p>\n<p> Egils Helmanis was on a business trip, where, together with other supporters of Ukraine, he delivered vehicles and other assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Such trips are regularly on the mayor&#8217;s agenda, even since 2022, since the very beginning of the war, a significant number of cars have been donated and brought every few months, this time about 20 cars,&#8221; said municipality representative Patrick Griva.<\/p>\n<p> It is noted that due to the secrecy of humanitarian aid delivery routes, it will not be highlighted where Mayor Orge was injured.<\/p>\n<p> Latvian media, citing sources in Ukraine, report that Gelmanis&#8217; health is not in danger.<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/vinnytsia-zaznala-masovanoho-udaru-bezpilotnykiv-masshtabni-ruynuvannia-ta-bahato-poranenykh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the night of Wednesday, July 16, Vinnytsia was subjected to a massive attack by enemy drones<\/a> . As a result of the strikes, several civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged, as well as residential buildings in the region&#8217;s communities.<\/p>\n<p> It is worth noting that on July 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-obstriliala-kryvyy-rih-balistykoiu-ta-dronamy-poraneno-pidlitka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">, Kryvyi Rih also came under a massive attack from Russia. The occupiers launched a combined attack using a ballistic missile and 28 Shahed attack drones<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of the Latvian city of Orge, Egils Gelmanis, was injured as a result of Russian shelling. This was reported by the city municipality, LSM.lv reports. Egils Helmanis was on a business trip, where, together with other supporters of Ukraine, he delivered vehicles and other assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. &#8220;Such trips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1263889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76874],"class_list":["post-1263907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}