08:37 200 Ukrainian children have been killed and 360 injured since the Russian invasion began. This was reported by the Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament Liudmyla Denisova on Facebook, quoted by Ukrinform. “As of 8:00 a.m. on April 16, 2022, according to the Unified Investigative Register and other sources, which have yet to be confirmed, a total of 200 children have died and 360 children have been injured since the Russian attack began,” he wrote. Denisova.
08:30 Russian forces carried out an airstrike on Lviv (west) this morning: the governor, Maksym Kozytskyi, reported on Telegram, according to reports from the BBC. Kozytskyi said the attack took place between 5:46 a.m. and 7:02 a.m. local time (4:46 a.m. and 6:02 a.m. in Italy), without giving any information about the targets hit or casualties. The city was rocked by numerous explosions.
08:18 Explosions shook the Ukrainian capital Kyiv this morning: Mayor Vitali Klitschko reports in Telegram. The blasts hit the Darnytskyi district on the outskirts of the city, Klitschko added, explaining that the number of victims was not yet known and that rescue teams were on the scene. The BBC reports.
08:17 Almost all of the 900 civilians found in the Kyiv region would have been shot. This was reported by the Associated Press, citing local police, the Guardian reported. “The presence of gunshot wounds suggests many were simply executed,” police officers said. Andriy Nebytov, the head of the Kiev regional police, said the bodies were left on the street or given a summary burial. According to the police, 95% died from gunshot wounds.
07:54 The damage caused by Russian forces to Ukraine’s transport infrastructure poses a “significant challenge” in delivering humanitarian aid to areas previously controlled by Moscow: this is the opinion of British intelligence, shared today by the London Ministry of Defense in its usual update on the situation in the Country.
07:50 A nighttime Russian bombing raids on Severodonetsk and Lyshansk in southeastern Ukraine killed one person, wounded three and burst a gas main. This was announced by the governor of the Lugansk region Sergiy Gaidai on Telegram, which was quoted by the Kyiv Independent.
07:41 “We are doing everything to save our people in Mariupol.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said so to the country in a video filmed by Ukrainska Pravda. The President explained that an important meeting with military, intelligence and political leaders on the situation in Mariupol took place yesterday. “The main argument is Mariupol Zelensky, said the details cannot be made public, but we are doing everything.”
07:26 Ukrainian forces repelled ten enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the last 24 hours, destroying three tanks, one armored personnel carrier, two cars and three artillery systems. According to the Guardian, the Kiev army announced this today.
05:29 Antiaircraft sirens are sounding in Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine, in the central and western regions of the country: in Lviv, Rivne, IvanoFrankivsk, Volyn, Khmelnytskyy, Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr. This was reported by the local media.
03:57 Antiaircraft warning sirens sounded in several cities in central, eastern and southern Ukraine, including Dnipropetrovsk, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhia, Cherkasy, Donetsk, Odessa, Kharkiv, Poltava and Mykolaiv. This is reported by the official Ukrainian Telegram channels.
02:34 Between 2,500 and 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers died in the war against Russia. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said so in an interview with CNN, adding that there were about 10,000 wounded and it is “difficult to say how many will survive”. In the case of civilian victims, it is “more difficult” to determine how many there are.