As many as 56 people were killed in a Russian tank attack at a nursing home in Luhansk, Ukraine, said a media report citing Luhansk Governor Serhiy Hayday.
“Death toll reaches 56 in Russian tank attack at nursing home in Luhansk Oblast on March 11. Russians moved 15 survivors to a facility on the occupied territories. Ukrainians still can’t reach the site of the attack. Source: Serhiy Hayday, the governor of Luhansk Oblast,” tweeted The Kyiv Independent, a Ukrainian media outlet.
An art school being used as a shelter in the besieged city of Mariupol has been bombed by Russian forces, CNN reported citing a statement by Mariupol city council on its Telegram channel.
According to the council, nearly 400 people were sheltered in the building, however, there is no clarity on the number of casualties as of now.
Moreover, amid an attack by Russian forces, over 39,000 people have fled the Mariupol in one week, reported The Kyiv Independent citing Mariupol city council.
Further, 115 children have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion and 140 more have been injured, the media outlet reported citing the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine.
Thousands of Mariupol residents who managed to escape from Russian bombs are starving to death in occupied Manhushi and Melekin.
The head of Donetsk Military-Civil Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko claimed on Sunday said that the Russian occupying forces are refusing to provide food, water and safe passage. “Head of Donetsk Military-Civil Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said thousands of Mariupol residents who managed to escape from Russian bombs are starving to death in occupied Manhushi and Melekin. Russian occupying forces refuse to provide food, water and safe passage,” tweeted The Kyiv Independent.
The besieged city of Mariupol is under almost constant bombardment, according to a major in Ukraine’s army, and residents are rationing food and water as bodies are left in the streets.
The Russian military on Sunday claimed that it had launched a series of strikes on military targets in Ukraine employing hypersonic and cruise missiles on Saturday night and Sunday morning, reported CNN.
In a statement released on Sunday, Russian Ministry of Defense spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said sea-launched Kalibr cruise missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea and air-launched Kinzhal hypersonic missile systems were fired from the airspace over Crimea.
Konashenkov said that the missiles targeted a large storage base for fuels and lubricants of the Ukrainian armed forces near the settlement of Kostyantynivka, in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region.
However, the armed forces of Ukraine have claimed that Russia has lost nearly 14,700 of its troops since the beginning of this military operation.
Meanwhile, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) has stopped the activity of a number of political parties, including the Opposition Platform For Life, for the period of martial law in the country.
“The NSDC decided, given the full-scale war and the ties of some political structures with this state, to suspend any activity of a number of political parties for the period of martial law. Namely: ‘Opposition Platform – For life’; ‘Party of Shariy’; ‘Nashi’; ‘Opposition Bloc’; the left opposition party; ‘Union of Leftists’; ‘Derzhava’; ‘Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine’; ‘Socialist Party of Ukraine’; the Socialists; the Volodymyr Saldo Bloc,” Zelenskyy said as quoted by the UNIAN Ukrainian news agency. The Ukrainian justice ministry was instructed to take measures to immediately stop the activities of these political forces, according to UNIAN.