❗️Russians hit the sports complex "Olympus" in Kreminna; the ignition area is 2400 square meters. At least 15 residential buildings caught fire in the region.
Artillery shelling on #Kreminna continued through April 17 and became more frequent and heavy at night.⤵
Seven houses, farm buildings, and part of the forest were set on fire. A few hours ago, Russian shells hit the Olympus sports complex, recently rebuilt under the President's program "Great Construction," where the Ukrainian Olympic team representatives usually trained ⤵
As of now, the area of the fire is 2,400 square meters. Rescuers on the scene are trying to localize the flames because the forest is located close by.
Housing estates in Rubizhne were also affected - seven locals were evacuated from the rubble of three houses,⤵
and two injured were taken to a hospital in #Severodonetsk.
The Russian army killed at least two people, and four were injured in the shelling of #Zolote. In addition, several other houses in this settlement were damaged. ⤵
Two more houses caught fire in Komyshuvaha of the Popasna Territorial Community.
Occupiers forcibly deported more than 500,000 Ukrainians to Russia.
More than 500,000 Ukrainians, 121,000 of whom are children, were forcibly deported to #Russia from the temporarily occupied territories of #Ukraine.⤵
This was announced by the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya.
"Filtration camps are integral to such relocation," Kyslytsya said.⤵
He added that about 20,000 Ukrainians are being held in filtration camps on the Mangush-Nikolske-Yalta line and about 5-7,000 in Bezimenne in the Donetsk region.
Ukrainians are sent to depressed regions of Russia - the northern regions and on the island of Sakhalin. ⤵
Offensive in #Donbas and assault on #Azovstal. The key takeaways from the General Staff
🔻The enemy is trying to continue offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and #Luhansk regions.⤵
🔻 Certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of #Belarus continue to perform tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in Brest and Gomel regions.
🔻In the #Izium direction, the enemy attempted an offensive in the direction of Sulyhivka, Dibrivne.⤵
🔻The enemy is trying to carry out an offensive in order to advance deep into the village of #Popasna.
🔻In the #Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out assault operations in the area of the #Mariinka settlement.⤵
Russian troops continue to hold hostage sailors of three foreign cargo ships. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, these vessels have been in the #Mariupol seaport, said the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova.
The crews of the ships Smarta (Liberia flag), Blue Star I (Panama flag), and Azburg (Dominican Republic flag) are in captivity. 42 crew members and the wife of the ship Smarta captain were taken hostage in the Mariupol sea trade port.
A surviving sailor of the cruiser Moskva, sunk by the Ukrainian army, told his mother that the ship was to drop off the marines in Odesa. Radio Svoboda journalists managed to talk to the woman.
Her name is not mentioned for security reasons. She said that on April 14, she spoke on the phone with her son - a conscript sailor who served in the Moskva and survived.
The Russian troops hit at a hospital in Bashtanka of the Mykolaiv region, wounding several people, the chairman of regional council Hanna Zamazeeva reported in Facebook.
"Several people were wounded. The dialysis department and the admissions office were destroyed; the operating room is without double-glazed windows now. Thank God, in Bashtanka, nobody died, and no children were injured.
The Madonna of Kyiv has already become the patron saint of one of the city's Catholic parishes, and the church-goers lit candles and planted yellow and blue flowers near her image.
Hungarian journalist András Földes, Telex, took a picture of 27-year-old Tetyana from Kyiv in the first days of the war. She hid from the Russian bombing, sat on the floor of one of the stations of the capital's subway, and fed her three-month-old daughter.