Region by region update: strikes on the Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv regions, explosions in the Kherson region
OLENA ROSCHINA - SATURDAY, 16 APRIL 2022, 09:23
DESTRUCTION, BACKGROUNDER PHOTO FROM THE GENERAL STAFF
Not only the Poltava and Kirovohrad regions, but also the Dnipropetrovsk region were hit by Russian army missiles last night. The Mykolaiv region was hit this morning, and Russian occupiers continue to fire on the Kherson, Kharkiv, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions.
Source: Data from the Regional Military Administration heads as of 8 am on 16 April
Details: Dnipropetrovsk region: at night, Russian invaders hit farm buildings. Buildings have been destroyed. There is no current information about victims. Details are being clarified.
Poltava region: late last evening, there was a missile strike on farm buildings in one of the villages of the region (near Poltava). The buildings have been damaged. One person was killed and one was injured (without being hospitalised).
Kirovohrad region: a hit on an infrastructure facility (airfield in the city of Oleksandriia) late last evening. The fire was extinguished. There are casualties. Emergency and rescue works are ongoing.
Kharkiv: the intensity of shelling in some parts of Kharkiv has increased over the past 24 hours. More than 50 people were injured and 9 civilians killed in the city yesterday.
Russian invaders fired on the cities of Dergachi, Balaklia, and Zolochiv in the region. 3 people were injured, 2 people killed.
The battles are ongoing around the city of Izium.
Luhansk region: mortar shelling of the cities of Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and Kreminna.
One person was killed in Kreminna and three were injured in Lysychansk.
The central gas pipeline in Severodonetsk was hit. The city has no water and gas supply.
Another Russian projectile hit the gas pipeline in Lysychansk, but the consequences are less serious.
Donetsk region: The villages of Zaporizhzhia and Sribne in the Pokrovsk district were shelled last evening. Residential buildings caught fire and the kindergarten has been damaged.
At night and in the morning, shelling occurred in the area of the village of Novoselivka-3 in Ocheretyn district.
Mariupol is holding on, but the situation is critical.
Kherson region: explosions and shelling. There is currently no information about destruction or casualties.
The humanitarian crisis continues in many settlements of the region, and so, too, does looting by the Russians.
Mykolaiv region. During the past day, the Russian troops struck civilian buildings in Mykolaiv with multiple rocket launchers. According to preliminary data, 5 people were killed and 15 were injured.
On Saturday morning there was shelling against infrastructure in Mykolaiv. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties. Details are being clarified.
The night was relatively calm in the following regions: Volyn, Zakarpattia, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytsky, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia, Ternopil, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Chernihiv and Sumy.
