UN official urges stop to fighting in Mariupol, and Ukraine mourns death of journalist and her young child
Russian forces continued heavy shelling of Ukrainian cities on Sunday as people in both countries observed Orthodox Easter and the US secretaries of state and defence prepared to make their first visit to Kyiv since the invasion.and kill civilians,” said Liudmyla Denisova, the Ukrainian parliament’s human rights ombudsman. She said Russian strikes killed four civilians in the Donetsk region and eight in the Luhansk region.
Russia’s forces continued to strike the city of Kharkiv, injuring three policemen and one woman, while artillery killed two men in the village of Slatine, in Kharkiv region. Even as fighting raged across the country, a military position in the eastern town of Lyman, on the frontline, took time to observe a solemn Easter, trading the usual patriotic salutation of “Glory to Ukraine!” for the ritual “Christ has risen!”.In the town’s small Orthodox church, about 50 civilians braved possible mortar fire to gather to pray from dawn.
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