One person killed, five injured in Russian shelling of Vasylivka in Zaporizhzhia region

Ivan Arefiev, a spokesman of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, wrote this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"As a result of artillery shelling of the city of Vasylivka from the positions of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, which are probably located in the urban-type settlement of Mykhailivka and the village of Orlianske, several residential buildings in the center and the private sector (the so-called ‘kolhozka’) were damaged, a grocery store was destroyed and a depot at the Tavriysk railway station was damaged. One person was killed and five were injured in the Russian shelling,” the report says.

In addition, according to available information, a representative of the Russian Armed Forces plans to send journalists of the occupying forces to the territory of Vasylivka on April 15 so that to create propaganda materials for the federal television of the Russian Federation, aiming to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops have been shelling and destroying key infrastructure facilities, conducting massive shelling of residential areas of Ukrainian cities and villages using artillery, multiple rocket launchers and ballistic missiles.