(Kyiv) The airport of Dnipro, a large city in eastern Ukraine, was bombed again on Sunday by the Russians and “completely destroyed”, announced the regional governor.
Posted at 8:38
Updated at 9:30 a.m.
What you need to know
- Dnipro airport has been the target of a new Russian strike and is “completely destroyed”;
- Russian propaganda led to Boutcha atrocities, Kyiv says;
- Ukraine has opened 5,600 investigations for alleged war crimes since the start of the Russian invasion;
- The European Union will discuss on Monday a new wave of sanctions against Moscow;
- The pope asks for an “Easter truce” to “achieve peace”;
- More than 4.5 million Ukrainians have fled the war since February 24.
“New attack against Dnipro airport. There’s nothing left. The airport itself and nearby infrastructure were destroyed. And the missiles keep flying,” regional governor Valentin Reznitchenko wrote on Telegram.
“We are in the process of determining the number of victims,” he continued.
Dnipro airport had already been hit on March 15 by a Russian bombardment: the runway had then been destroyed and the terminal damaged.
Dnipro, an industrial city of one million inhabitants crossed by the Dnieper River (Dnipro in Ukrainian) which marks the limit of the eastern regions of the country, was relatively spared by the advance of the Russian army.