After the Russian missile strike on Chernihiv, which caused numerous casualties and destruction, the European Union's Ambassador to Ukraine, Katarina Mathernova, said that Russia must pay for these war crimes.
After a missile attack by Russian troops on the civilian infrastructure of Chernihiv, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal emphasized that Ukraine is working daily to receive additional air defense systems as soon as possible.
On Saturday morning in the Chernihiv region, Russian soldiers fired at a car carrying food products for residents of border villages. The driver was killed.
As part of a pilot project on comprehensive reconstruction, the Ukrainian Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development Ministry has started repair works in more than 20 houses in the Chernihiv region’s village of Yahidne.
A Russian soldier who shot civilians in April 2022 in the temporarily occupied village of Haivoron, in the Chernihiv region, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment.