Residential buildings hit in the east

Residential buildings hit in the east

Russian shelling overnight has hit several residential buildings in the city of Lysychansk and the nearby town of Toshkivka, according to Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine.

The number of victims is being determined, he added.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned early on Saturday that the east of the country of "hard battles ahead".