BREAKING: Several Explosions Rock Lviv

Update at 11:56pm Kyiv Time: 5,200 people evacuated through humanitarian corridors on March 26. 

According to Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, all 10 humanitarian corridors were successful. 

She added that 4,000 people were able to leave Mariupol.

Update at 11:36pm Kyiv Time: Russia attacks oil depot in Rivne Oblast. 

According to Rivne Oblast Governor Vitaliy Koval, Russian forces have shelled an oil depot in Dubno, Rivne Oblast. The authorities are still addressing the damage from the attack.

Hromadske reports the occupiers fired on Boiarka (Kyiv Oblast), injuring four civilians, including a child. Damaged infrastructure includes high-rise and private homes, garages and other real estates

Update at 11:05pm Kyiv Time: Today’s missile strikes on Lviv target oil depot, plant.

Lviv Oblast Governor Maksym Kozytskyi said that Russian forces attacked fuel infrastructure in Lviv. 

In total, four strikes hit the city, five people are injured. Firefighters are trying to extinguish the fires.

Update at 10:58pm Kyiv Time: We're learning that Russia is using the territory of illegally annexed Crimea, Ukrainian territory, to launch missiles into Western Ukraine. 

Ukraine warned many times since 2014 about the danger of Crimea militarization by Russia. Few listened. Germans sent their turbines bypassing sanctions.

Missiles are reported to have hit Dubno city, Rivne Region, West Ukraine.

Update at 9:54pm Kyiv Time: Kharkiv nuclear research reactor hit by Russian shelling.

The nuclear research reactor at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology has come under renewed Russian fire.

Ukrainian authorities have not yet been able to assess damage to the site, due to

constant shelling.

Update at 8:53pm Kyiv Time: Shelling in Kyiv Oblast kills 3, injures 6.

Artillery strikes by Russian forces targeted the villages of Tarasivka, Trebukhiv and Shevchenkove, and the city of Bucha, Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office reports.

Update at 8:43pm Kyiv Time: Interior Ministry: Still too early to dismiss Russian invasion of Kyiv. 

Advisor to Ukraine’s Interior Minister Vadym Denysenko has stated that it is still “too early” to state that Russian forces have “refused to storm Kyiv.”

Update at 7:55pm Kyiv Time: More Russian strikes on Lviv, infrastructure severely damaged says mayor Andriy Sadovyi.

Update at 7:14pm Kyiv Time: We're learning that more explosions are being felt in Lviv that has been largely spared by the Russian forces.

Update at 7pm Kyiv Time: Mariupol city council: Russian forces forcibly deported hospital employees, patients.

The council of the besieged city said that, according to witness reports, Russian troops had forcibly moved the staff and the patients of the Mariupol City Hospital #1 to an unknown location.

It is not clear how many people were deported. There were about 700 people in the hospital.

Update at 6:44pm Kyiv Time: Lviv mayor says the target of Russian shelling was one of the industrial facilities where fuel is stored. Housing infrastructure did not suffer. He asks everyone to remain in shelter

Update at 6:13pm Kyiv Time: Lviv Oblast governor: At least 5 injured by 2 missile strikes on Lviv.

No residential buildings in Lviv, a regional capital in western Ukraine, have been hit during the Russian attack on March 26, Maksym Kozytskyi said, as quoted by Ukrainska Pravda.

Update at 5:59pm Kyiv Time: Lviv Mayor: Lviv attacked.

Andriy Sadovyi said that Lviv was hit following reports about explosions. Lviv Oblast Governor Maksym Kozytskyi said that 3 loud explosions were heard near Lviv, from the east. Sadovyi warned that more strikes may be coming.

Update at 5:30pm Kyiv Time: Reporter in Lviv says. Three explosions reported in Lviv. City mayor Andriy Sadovyi confirmed Russians launched missiles on Lviv. No reports about exact area and casualties yet. 

Very worrying: it was relatively calm in Western Ukraine, where millions of people displaced from other areas sought refuge.

Update at 4:50pm: We're learning from The Kyiv Independent. Explosions reported in Lviv.

Update at 4:40pm Kyiv Time: Turkey defuses mine that it says floated off Black Sea.

Turkey’s Defense Minister Halusi Akar said they neutralized the “old type of mine” after fishermen spotted it in the upper Bosphorus Strait. Turkey said it’s in touch with Ukraine and Russia regarding the incident.

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Russian forces damage Holocaust memorial outside Kharkiv.

The Ministry of Defense said that the Russian troops hit the memorial in Drobytsky Yar, a ravine where, according to different estimates, from 16,000-20,000 people, mostly Jews, were massacred by Nazi troops in 1941.

Chernihiv mayor: City 'completely destroyed,' 200 civilians killed.

According to Vladyslav Atroshenko, “it is easier to count those buildings that have survived” in Chernihiv, a regional capital in northern Ukraine. More than half of the city’s 285,000 residents had left.

Ukraine’s general staff: Russian invaders forced into defensive positions.

Nevertheless, Russian forces will likely continue offensive attempts which includes launching more missiles and air strikes on important military objects and civilian infrastructure.

Russian shelling leaves Kyiv’s western Sviatoshynskyi District without electricity. 

Two power lines have been cut off by shelling in the suburbs, according to the city council. Water pressure might drop, too.

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