Employees of the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations took out the body of another dead woman while sorting through the rubble of a five-story apartment building destroyed by shelling in the town of Chasiv Yar (Donetsk region), said Deputy head of the President’s Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
Deminers are racing against time to clear lake Horenka on the fringes of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv of unexploded shells and missiles before the start of the summer season to prevent any casualties.
Russia has confirmed the capture of the strategic town of Lyman after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed resistance in the Donbas region. Follow DW for more.
"The president of Ukraine has signed a law banning pro-Russia political parties! The law will come into force on the day following the day of its publication," Olha Sovgirya, a deputy from Zelensky's ruling Servant of the People bloc, wrote on.