Deaths and casualties surge across Ukraine overnight

Battles continue to be fought across parts of eastern and southern Ukraine, according to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.

In its latest update, it said battles were most ‘fierce’ in the eastern regions of Donetsk ad Luhansk.
It added that Russia was also focusing its “efforts on establishing full control of the city of Mariupol in the south, as well as attacking Kharkiv in the north-east.”

Attacks from the sky have also continued, causing deaths and casualties across a number of regions.

One of the most severely impacted regions is Luhansk, where the cities of Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and Kreminna were hit overnight. One person was killed and three were injured, according to Luhansk’s regional governor. He added that a “gas pipeline in Severodonetsk was cut off, and the city was without water or gas at present.”

In central Ukraine, Poltava and Kirovograd also sustained casualties. In Poltava, one person was killed and one other was injured after a village in the region was hit, according to the regional governor.