More people evacuated from Sieverodonetsk / Russia apparently plans to blockade the city of Lysychansk next. Rocket attacks have injured people across the country.
Pro-Russian separatists say they have evacuated 250 more people from the air-raid shelters at the Azot chemical plant in Sievjerodonetsk in eastern Ukraine. The city had previously been taken by Russian troops. Among the evacuees are small children, said the representative of the Luhansk separatists in Moscow, Rodion Miroshnik. As early as Saturday, 200 civilians were taken out of the plant, he wrote on the Telegram news channel. But it was unclear where they were taken. The Ukrainian military governor of the Luhansk region had given the number of civilians in the chemical plant’s protective cellars as 568 before the Ukrainian troops withdrew.
Hard fighting expected in Lysychansk
The government in Kyiv assumes that Russia will continue to intensify the fighting for the city of Lysychansk after taking Sieverodonetsk. The enemy, with the support of artillery, is increasingly trying to block the strategically important city from the south, the Ukrainian general staff said. Civil and military infrastructure were also hit. This could not be verified independently. Russian soldiers have already advanced to the outskirts of the city.
Sieverodonetsk: Missile attacks on several locations
The Russian army fired rockets at the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Several explosions were reported. A bullet hit a nine-story apartment building, Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, wrote on Telegram. Another rocket fell on the premises of a kindergarten in the Shevchenko district. There were no children there at the time. According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, at least four people were injured in the apartment building.
In addition to Kyiv, the central Ukrainian region of Cherkasy also reported Russian rocket attacks. As a result of the impact of two rockets near the regional capital, one person was killed and five others injured, said the governor of the Cherkassy region, Ihor Taburez. The city, with a population of just under 300,000, has largely escaped bombings since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
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