Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia had concentrated a significant part of its forces for the offensive in eastern Ukraine.
“No matter how many soldiers are drawn there, we will defend ourselves. We will fight. We will not give up anything Ukrainian.”
Serhiy Haidai, Luhansk Oblast’s governor, has said that residents should leave immediately to avoid being taken captive by Russians and possibly be killed.
In the southern city of Mariupol Russians have been accused of targeting residential areas around Mariupol’s Azovstal plant.
Instead of focusing on the plant, serving as the stronghold of the remaining Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol, Russians hit residential neighborhoods, according to Petro Andryushchenko, advisor to mayor.
Seven people have been killed and eleven reported injured after Russia launched four missile strikes on Lviv this morning
Three of the missiles hit military infrastructure, another hit a car repair shop.
Meanwhile Ukrainian authorities are warning Russia can be preparing attacks on churches on Orthodox Easter Day.
Russian media outlets have published false information about Ukrainian forces planning on shelling Orthodox churches in several Ukrainian regions on Orthodox Easter, April 24.
