War in Ukraine: At least 17 civilians killed in Russian attacks on eastern front

At least 12 civilians were killed and at least 40 others were injured blows of Russian artillery in Sheverodonetsk, a city in the east Ukrainelocal authorities reported.

THE Serhiy Haidaiits governor Luhanskaccused via Telegram the Russian armed forces of bombing houses.

THE Russian army and pro-Russian separatists are attacking the city from practically all sides.

It is impossible to verify the number of victims of the war, which lasts almost three months. Both Kyiv and Moscow rarely report casualties to their armed forces.

Last week, pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk reported that 1,700 of their fighters had been killed. The most recent report released by the Russian Ministry of Defense was at the end of March, which spoke of 1,351 dead. In mid-April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of 3,000 Ukrainian military dead. To date, the UN says it has confirmed more than 3,800 civilian deaths.

The toll of war victims is certainly considered to be much heavier in reality.

Five dead and six injured in Donetsk

Meanwhile, attacks in the Donetsk region continue. In a Facebook post, Governor Pavlo Kirilenko revealed that five civilians had been killed and six injured in the past 24 hours.

In particular, he claimed that two people were killed by Russian fire in Bakhmut, one in Krasnohorvka, one in Avdivka and one in Hrestische. He added that it was impossible to determine the number of victims from the attacks in Mariupol and Bilohorivka.

House bombings in Dnipropetrovsk

In central Ukraine, areas of the Dnipropetrovsk region came under fire. Two people were injured in the Russian attacks.

At the same time, the local official, Mykola Lukasuk, claimed that houses were bombed, as a result of which three of them were completely destroyed, while another 24 were damaged.