Update from the Regions: east under fire, explosions in the south, Kherson region needs evacuation

Thursday, 7 April 2022, 08:56

OLENA ROSCHYNA - THURSDAY, 7 APRIL, 2022, 08:56

UKRAINIAN FIGHTER, ILLUSTRATIVE PHOTO OF UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES

This night, Russian troops shelled Kharkiv and fired rockets at the city of Lozova in the Kharkiv region, attacked settlements in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, fired artillery at the Kherson region, which needs humanitarian aid and evacuation.

Source: data of regional heads as of 8 am on 7 April

Details:

Kharkiv: at night Russian invaders fired again on residential areas of the city.  Missile strikes were conducted on the city of Lozova, no one was injured. The ​​evacuation of civilians is ongoing from Lozova and the town of Barvinkovo.

Luhansk region: Russian troops did not succeed in entering the settlement of Novotoshkivske. They are firing at the town of Hirske with all kinds of weapons.

The roof of the Severodonetsk hospital  and residential buildings in the city of Lysychansk caught fire. Some  houses in Lysychansk, as well as farm buildings in Lysychansk, Severodonetsk, Novodruzhesk and Toshkivka have been destroyed.

At night, firefighters headed off a catastrophe by putting out a fire on the roof of a hospital in Severodonetsk. The fire spread to at least 10 high-rise buildings, engulfing them in flames, and many other high-rise buildings had windows broken and roofs damaged.

Donetsk region: the town of Maryinka and the village of Novomykhailivka came under attack from Russian artillery and aircraft.

The city of Avdiivka, Ocheretyne district and Toretsk district were shelled. The extent of the destruction and the number of people affected by the Russian attacks is being established.

No changes in Mariupol. It is under blockade. Resistance continues.

In the last 24 hours in the Kherson region there were many explosions, Russian occupiers have used  "Grad" multiple rocket launchers. There are reports of destroyed houses and schools, and also of casualties (detailed information is being clarified).

According to the authorities, people are trying to leave the occupied villages by their own means.

"The region needs humanitarian aid and evacuation of civilians, in particular, Beryslav district and villages on the border with Mykolayiv region," the Kherson Military State Administration emphasises.

The night passed relatively calmly in many regions: Volyn, Zakarpattia, Dnipropetrovsk, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Khmelnytsky, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Ternopil, Zhytomyr, Sumy , Cherkasy, Chernihiv, and Poltava.