live blog
Status: 4/4/2022 1:23 am
According to Ukrainian information, more than 2,600 people were rescued from the embattled regions of Luhansk, Mariupol and Berdyansk. According to the governor, a rescue convoy was fired on in the Kharkiv region. All developments in the live blog.
1:23 a.m
Dead and injured in attack on residential area in Kharkiv
Seven people were killed and 34 injured in a Russian attack on a residential area in Kharkiv in north-eastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian sources. Three children were among the injured, the local prosecutor said on Telegram. The Russian troops fired on a residential area on Sunday evening, damaging ten houses and a bus depot.
Ukraine’s second largest city has been the target of repeated bombing raids since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Russian forces also shelled the nearby town of Dergachi. At least three civilians were killed and seven others injured, Mayor Vychaeslaw Sadorenko said on Facebook.
1:20 a.m
Mariupol continued to be heavily contested
Heavy fighting continues in the port city of Mariupol, which is besieged by Russian troops. The British Ministry of Defense said the city continued to face intense and indiscriminate attacks, but Ukrainian forces put up stubborn resistance and maintained control of the central areas.
1:15 am
Vice-President of the European Parliament for War Crimes Tribunal
After the war atrocities in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, the Vice-President of the European Parliament, Nicola Beer (FDP), is calling for a “special war criminals tribunal similar to the Yugoslav wars” against those responsible. “The monstrosity of these acts is incomprehensible to all of us,” said Beer on Sunday evening on Bild-TV. “These are the most serious crimes against humanity, these are war crimes.”
12:45 a.m
Satellite images show 14 meter long ditch in Bucha
Satellite images from the Maxar company show a 14-meter-long ditch on the site of a church in the Ukrainian city of Bucha. According to Ukrainian sources, the bodies of hundreds of civilians killed by Russian troops were buried there.
1:15 am
Governor: Russian troops fire on evacuation convoy
Russian troops fired on a convoy of buses carrying hospital patients to safety in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, according to the governor. Around 70 patients should have been taken out of the clinic in the city of Balakliya, which was badly damaged by shelling the day before, Kharkiv governor Oleh Synyehubov said on Sunday. But the buses could not have gone into town. There is preliminary information that one of the bus drivers was killed. Balaklija is around 75 kilometers southeast of the city of Kharkiv, which was massively devastated by Russian attacks.
12:20 a.m
Ukraine: 2,600 people evacuated from war zones
According to Ukrainian information, more than 2,600 people were brought to safety on Sunday from particularly hard-fought Ukrainian cities. Of the 2,694 people, almost 1,500 were rescued from the Luhansk region, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Sunday, according to the Ukrajinska Pravda newspaper. She accused the Russian side of violating the agreed ceasefire.
On Sunday, almost 500 people fled to Zaporizhia in their own vehicles from the embattled port city of Mariupol and from Berdyansk. According to Vereshchuk, seven buses accompanied by the Red Cross were also able to drive from Mariupol to Mangush.
The Red Cross had to abort an evacuation attempt on Friday. Russia had once again accused Ukraine of not cooperating in the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol. Moscow and Kyiv have been accusing each other of sabotaging the escape of residents from Mariupol for weeks.
conflicting parties as a source
Information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by official bodies of the Russian and Ukrainian conflict parties cannot be directly checked by an independent body in the current situation.