Overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Lviv area killed a person, its governor stated on Sunday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged his folks to endure throughout their third Easter at warfare.
Ukraine is on the again foot because the Russian invasion grinds into its third 12 months, struggling ammunition shortages on the entrance line and pleading for Western help to fend off relentless aerial assaults.
Russian cruise missiles focused vital infrastructure within the western Lviv area and “one man died as a result of the attack”, governor Maksym Kozytsky wrote on Telegram.
There “may still be people under the rubble” that rescuers had been combing by, he stated, including that firefighters had extinguished a blaze that broke out at an administrative constructing broken within the raid.
National vitality operator Ukrenergo stated Russia additionally focused high-voltage services within the south, forcing emergency shutdowns within the Black Sea metropolis of Odesa and close by areas.
“There is no night or day when Russian terror does not try to break our lives,” Zelensky wrote in an Easter Sunday message to Ukrainians on social media, after the air drive reported downing 9 missiles and 9 drones in a single day.
“But we defend ourselves, we endure, our spirit does not give up and knows that it is possible to avert death. Life can prevail,” he stated.
Moscow has intensified strikes on Ukrainian vitality services in latest weeks, saying it’s responding to assaults by Kyiv on Russian border areas.
Energy consumption restrictions remained in place in Ukraine’s second metropolis Kharkiv and Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rig following earlier Russian assaults, Ukrenergo stated on Sunday.
Source: www.anews.com.tr