The Ukrainian government is negotiating the evacuation of civilians from Hostomel and Bucha in the Kyiv region, two cities that remain under the relentless fire of the Russian troops.
During the 24 hours of March 5, the areas that witnessed the most extensive damage to the civilian infrastructure caused by warfare are the city of Chernihiv in the north of Ukraine, the city of Kharkiv in the north-east, the Bucha district of the Kyiv region and the Korosten district of the Zhytomyr region.
Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration Oleksiy Kuleba reported that Kadyrovites (the Chechen paramilitary group supporting the Russian Armed Forces) have seized a psychoneurological hospital which houses more than 600 patients.
Russian invaders have blown up railway tracks in the Kyiv region, so the evacuation from Irpin will be carried out using buses, said Mayor Olexandr Markushyn.
At least five people, three of them children, have been killed because of shelling by the Russian troops in the village of Markhalivka in the Kyiv region.
In Chayka village, near Kiev, a shell hit a warehouse for the manufacture and storage of spray foam. A fire now blazes in the warehouse and the administrative building.
The fight against enemy sabotage groups has been ongoing in the whole Kyiv region since this morning, 3 February. It is reported that the situation is under control.
On 28 February, Russian bombing of Kalynivka village in the Fastiv district of the Kyiv region resulted in a house being completely destroyed, a woman killed and a man missing.
A dormitory and two residential 5-storey buildings were destroyed as a result of Russian missile strikes in the town of Vasylkiv, the town of Bila Tserkva and the village of Kalinovka in the Kyiv region on the evening of February 28.