Mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovyy reported five targeted rocket attacks on the city. Rescue services have already gone to the site, further information is being ascertained. The head of the Lviv regional administration, Maxim Kozitsky, reported four strikes.
There is no more detailed information available at the moment. People are urged to stay inside shelters.
Two more strikes were reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration Valentin Reznichenko. Two were injured in the Sinelnikovsky district (east of Dnipro): there, according to the official, the rocket hit an infrastructure facility. The fire is extinguished.
"In Pavlograd district people were not hit. But it destroyed the railway infrastructure," Reznichenko also reported.
Russian occupants also shelled the administrative building of the regional Patrol Police Department in the Luhansk region. As a result, six employees were hospitalized.
This was reported on Telegram by the head of the Lugansk regional state administration Serhiy Gaidai.
"Yesterday at 20:40 artillery shelling of Lysychansk was carried out. Several Russian shells hit the administration building of the regional Patrol Police Department. Six employees with acrobatic injuries were hospitalized," he wrote.
According to Gaidai, artillery shelling of Kremenna also continued on April 17 and at night. At the same time, they became more frequent and powerful. Seven residential buildings, outbuildings and forest litter caught fire as a result of the attack.
A few hours earlier the Russian shells had hit local sports infrastructure. In particular, at the newly built sports complex Olimp where representatives of the Ukrainian Olympic team used to train.
The area of the fire, according to preliminary calculations, is 2,400 square meters. The rescuers are trying to localize the flames as there is a woodland nearby.
In addition, residential areas were also affected in Rubizhne - seven local residents were evacuated from under the rubble of three houses, two injured were taken to a hospital in Severodonetsk.
"At least two killed by the Russian army and four injured as a result of the shelling of the town of Zolote. In addition, several other houses in the locality were damaged," Gaidai said.
