The city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine is under constant bombardment as Russia continues its offensive in the region, Lugansk region governor Serhiy Gaidai told Ukrainian TV, according to the Guardian.
"The fighting continues unabated. The Russians are constantly on the offensive.
There is no respite. Absolutely everything is being bombed," said Gaidai.
Ukrainian authorities said they are trying to evacuate the approximately 15,000 remaining residents of the city.
Meanwhile ,
Amnesty International
claims that the airstrike on March 16 against a theater in Mariupol where civilians had taken refuge was launched by Russian forces and was a war crime.
"Until now there was talk of an alleged war crime. Now we can clearly say that it was, and it was committed by the Russian armed forces," said Oksana Pokalchuk, head of the Ukrainian branch of Amnesty.
"These explosions were caused by something really big: two 500-kilogram bombs" dropped from a plane
he added, rejecting the Russian contention that the theater was hit in a false flag attack by Ukrainian defenders of the city.
The organization believes that at least a dozen people died in the attack, while the city authorities initially estimated around 300 victims.
The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that it has again
lost the remote connection
with its surveillance systems of the safety devices installed in
the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant
.
"This underlines the need for the IAEA to visit the facility in the near future," said the agency's director general, Rafael Grossi.