The number of victims in Sloviansk has risen to 11, where an apartment building was destroyed by Russian bombing. Two more quarters of Bakhmut fall. Rockets also hit Donetsk Cathedral on the night of the Easter vigil: one dead and two wounded
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Kiev: 130 soldiers released in prisoner exchange for Easter
Ukrainian presidential adviser Andriy Yermak announced on Telegram a “major prisoner exchange for Easter. We’re bringing 130 of our own home. It has taken place in recent days in several stages. Military, border guards, national guards, sailors. Captured soldiers and sergeants in the Bakhmut, Soledar, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson directions. Our people are going home.”
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Chief Wagner: “I ordered the release of Ukrainians for Easter”
The head of the Wagner private militia Yevgeny Prigozhin said he personally ordered the release of a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war on Easter: a video released by his press service shows him giving the order for their release. This was reported by the Russian state news agency Interfax.
«Prepare all the prisoners of war, feed them and drink them, check the wounded, the doctors must examine them. We have to make sure they leave for the territory by noon,” Prigozhin tells a Wagner soldier in the video. In total, 130 Ukrainian servicemen were released who were captured in Bakhmut, Soledar, Zaporizhzia, Kherson.
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Kiev: «The Russian army hit the church of Nikopol»
According to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, Sergiy Lysak, the Russian army hit the Nikopol church with heavy artillery, wounding two people. UNIAN brings it back. Nikopol stands opposite the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in eastern Ukraine. “The Russians have once again confirmed that there is nothing sacred about them. The Nikopol church was hit with heavy artillery. Two people were injured. A 57-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman,” he said, adding that five residential buildings and several power lines were damaged in the city.