The strikes, which came within an hour, erupted in shelling at Kramatorsk railway station on April 8, he said. This attack, which left 57 dead and more than 100 injured, was blamed by kyiv on Moscow, but Russia has denied any responsibility.

Mr. Kamichine did not say where the stations targeted by the Russian army were. He contended that 19 trains were delayed, before insisting that they all leave, too late, a few hours later.

However, attacks on railways were reported on Monday by local authorities in Zhytomyr, east of kyiv, as well as in Rivne and Lviv, in the west of the country. The Lviv governor has released a video showing a column of smoke rising from a train station in Krasne, about an hour from Lviv.

According to the general personnel of the Ukrainian army, the shelling took place on Monday on almost the entire front line, which stretches nearly 500 kilometers between Kharkiv, in the northeast, and the region from Donetsk, in the southeast, to Luhansk region.

The Ukrainian army, however, claims to have repelled a series of Russian attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, particularly in Rubizhne, Popasna, Sievierodonetsk, Maryinka and Avdiivka, as well as an attempted which advanced towards the cities of Barvinkove and Sloviansk from Izioum.

The entire country remained alert on Monday morning for aerial bombardment for two hours, an unusually long period during which the population must seek refuge in shelters.

Strikes in central Ukraine

The governor of the Vinnytsia region, Serhi Borzov, notably spoke to the Telegram of the deadly strikes against essential infrastructure of two towns in this region of central Ukraine, Zhmerinka and Koziatin. It is not clear if this refers to attacks on the rails.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov reported that the Kremenchuk refinery, the largest in Ukraine before the war, and other fuel depots were destroyed using long-range weapons. high precision range.

According to the governor of the Poltava region, the attack carried out on Monday left one dead and seven injured.

Kremenchuk, on the banks of the Dnieper River, was an important logistics center for Ukrainian troops resisting the Russian invasion of the Donbass.

In all, Russian warplanes destroyed 56 Ukrainian targets overnight from Sunday to Monday, General Konashenkov said.

Ukrainian resistance pounded in Mariupol

The bombings also continued in Mariupol, a strategic port in the Sea of ​​Azov almost entirely controlled by the Russian army, where about 100,000 people still remain, according to kyiv. They mainly target the Azovstal factory, where the last Ukrainian fighters are buried, who, according to them, are hundreds of civilians.

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly ordered the Russian army to encircle Ukrainian fighters buried in the metallurgical complex, but without attacking them, in order to preserve the lives of Russian soldiers.

Mariupol’s last defenders have released photos in recent days of women and children saying they have been living for several weeks in temporary dormitories in the complex and have called for a ceasefire. with guarantees to get them out.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Monday morning that its forces would do so unilaterally stop battles in Azovstal from 2 pm local time (7 am EST), retrieve the units at a safe distance and ensure removal civilians in the direction they chose.

But kyiv denied this announcement. There is no agreement It was decided to establish a humanitarian corridor on Monday that would allow them to evacuate, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. The advertised corridor has no security, so there is no evacuationhe added.

More than 20,000 people have already died in Mariupol, according to estimates by its mayor, Vadim Boïtchenko. These numbers cannot be independently verified.

Large fire at a Russian oil depot

Meanwhile, a huge fire broke out on Monday at an oil depot in a Russian town about 100 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said. No reason was given for the fire.

The Bryansk oil depot is owned by a Russian state-controlled subsidiary of Transneft, which operates the Druzhba pipeline that delivers crude oil westward to other European countries. It is unclear if the depot is part of the pipeline infrastructure and if the fire could affect deliveries.

Another oil storage facility in Bryansk also caught fire early Monday, Russian media reported, and the cause was not immediately known.

Last month, two Ukrainian helicopter gunships hit an oil tank in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, causing a fire.