Air raid sirens sounded throughout Ukraine within the early hours of Sunday amid a spate of Russian missile assaults.
A few of these assaults have been directed at vital infrastructure, such because the navy airfield and coaching middle at Yavoriv, close to the Polish border, and the airport at Ivano-Frankivsk.
However different strikes seem to have hit closely populated areas, with the northern metropolis of Chernihiv struck for the third night time in a row.
The top of the Chernihiv area Vyacheslav Chaus mentioned on his Telegram channel early Sunday that “the occupiers launched an air strike on a high-rise constructing at night time.”
“Rescuers are engaged on the spot. In response to preliminary data, one particular person died, two have been rescued.”
Ten fires have been recorded within the metropolis throughout the previous 24 hours and three folks had died, Chaus mentioned.
South of Chernihiv on the principle path to Kyiv, a mom and her son have been reported killed in shelling close to Brovary.
Soccer membership FC Shakhtar tweeted that Dmytro Yevdochenko, a promising teenage footballer, and his mom, Maryna Yevdochenko, “died because of shelling by Russian troops.”
The Ukrainian authorities is making an attempt to open evacuation routes for civilians in settlements round Brovary, which is throughout the river Dnieper from the capital.
Within the japanese area of Luhansk — a lot of which is now occupied by Russian forces — the pinnacle of the Luhansk regional administration, Serhiy Haidai, mentioned there had been “large shelling” of a number of cities, together with Kreminna and Rubizhne, which had prevented buses from leaving with civilians.
