Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine early Sunday morning amid a series of Russian rocket attacks.
Some of these attacks targeted critical infrastructure such as the military airfield and training center in Yavoriv, near the Polish border, and the airport in Ivano-Frankivsk.
But other strikes appear to have hit densely populated areas, such as the northern city of Chernihiv for the third night in a row.
The head of the Chernihiv region, Vyacheslav Chaus, said on his Telegram channel early Sunday morning that “the occupiers launched an airstrike on a high-rise building at night.”
“Rescuers are on the scene. According to preliminary information, one person died, two were rescued.
According to Chaus, 10 fires have been recorded in the city over the past 24 hours, 3 people have died.
South of Chernigov, on the main road to Kyiv, a mother and her son were reportedly killed by shelling near Brovary.
FC Shakhtar tweeted that Dmytro Yevdochenko, a promising teenage footballer, and his mother Marina Yevdochenko “were killed as a result of shelling by Russian troops.”
The Ukrainian government is trying to open evacuation routes for civilians in the settlements around Brovar, which are across the Dnieper River from the capital.
In the eastern region of Lugansk, most of which is now occupied by Russian troops, the head of the Lugansk regional administration, Serhiy Gaidai, said there had been “massive shelling” of several cities, including Kremennaya and Rubizhne, which prevented buses from leaving with civilians.