Four killed, ten wounded in Russian shelling in Luhansk region – Haidai

Four civilians were killed, ten were wounded in Russian shelling in Luhansk region last night.

Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhiy Haidai wrote this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.

"All the cities of the region are under fire. Four were killed and 10 were wounded. More than 50 buildings were damaged… There are killed in Severodonetsk and Rubizhne," the governor wrote.

According to him, the battles for Rubizhne and Popasna continue.

"The National Guard stopped the offensive of Putin's killers from the side of temporarily occupied Stara Krasnianka on the Ukrainian border. During the battle, they destroyed twenty Russian occupiers and forced them to retreat. Enemy troops accompanied their offensive with forty-minute shelling of the city with mortars and artillery," Haidai wrote.

He added that Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Hirske, Kreminna, Pryvillia and Zolote were also under fire during the day.

Since February 24, Russian troops have been shelling and destroying key infrastructure facilities, conducting massive shelling of residential areas of Ukrainian cities and villages using artillery, multiple rocket launchers and ballistic missiles.

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