Regional updates: Less shelling in Kharkiv, fierce fighting in Donbas, attack on Mykolayiv
Olena Roshchina – Thursday, 21 April 2022, 09:20
The intensity of shelling has subsided in the Kharkiv region. Active fighting continued on the Izyum front and in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. There were missile strikes on Mykolayiv in the evening. At night, Zelenodolsk in the Dnipropetrovsk region was shelled from Hurricane multiple rocket launchers.
Source: Information from Heads of Regions as of 08:00 on Thursday, 21 April
Details: In the Dnipropetrovsk region, air raid alarms sounded all night. Russian troops shelled the outskirts of Zelenodolsk from Hurricane multiple rocket launchers. There were no casualties.
Kharkiv region: The intensity of shelling decreased and the night was much calmer.
Active battles are being fought on the Izyum front.
Luhansk region: The situation remains difficult. Constant shelling and fierce positional fighting in Popasna and Rubizhne. Significant destruction in Rubizhne and Novodruzhesk.
Donetsk region: Shelling along the entire demarcation line. On the night of 20-21 April Russian troops became more active near Maryinka and Novomykhailivka. The situation remains under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Kherson region: Russian occupation is making the situation in the region more critical. Explosions and shelling are being heard across the entire region. Infrastructure has been destroyed. Information on wounded civilians is currently unavailable.
Mykolaiv region: The city of Mykolaiv was hit by missiles on the evening of 20 April. Explosions could be heard in the city centre, which is an entirely residential neighbourhood. According to preliminary information, there are no victims.
In other areas of the region the situation is stable and under control.
The night was relatively calm in the Volyn, Zakarpattia, Rivne, Kirovohrad, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytsky, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia, Ternopil, Kyiv, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions.