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.
“The Russian army continued to actively shell peaceful cities in Ukraine 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. “Three people working in a garden in Zaporizhzhia were killed by Russian artillery on Saturday,” Denisova said.
