Ukraine marks its third Easter at war
Al Jazeera
Ukraine has been hit by yet another barrage as it marked its third Easter at war with Russia’s invading forces.
As Ukraine celebrated Orthodox Easter on Sunday, Russia launched a barrage of drones concentrated on the east. The attack wounded more than a dozen people, while Moscow claimed its troops took control of a strategic village on the front line.
Sunday marked the third Easter since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 23 of the 24 Shahed drones Russia launched overnight. However, six people, including a child, were wounded in a strike in the Kharkiv region, regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
Fourteen more were wounded in an air strike on Sunday afternoon on Kharkiv, the regional prosecutor’s office said. Syniehubov said the city was attacked by an aerial bomb.
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