The russians have fired on 25 settlements in Donetsk and Luhansk over the past 24 hours. A civilian was injured, and local schools, hospitals and houses were destroyed.
The situation in the eastern region was reported in the JFO press center.
The russians also fired on the 673rd km of the Kyiv-Kharkiv-Dovzhanske highway (M-03).
"Enemy artillery and air shelling caused the destruction and damage of about 20 high-rise and private residential buildings in Svitlodarsk, Avdiivka, Siversk, Sloviansk, Ocheretyne. A local resident was injured in the shelling in the Zarichne village," the Joint Forces said.
According to the press service, the Avdiivka and Lyman hospitals, as well as the Yampil and Slovyansk secondary schools were hit by barbaric shelling.
"In addition, as a result of the shelling, the following was damaged: a poultry farm (Shnurky village, Cherkasy community), two utilities, a dairy craft and a fire department (Oleksandrivka, Cherkasy community), 3 gas pipelines, a power transformer, a transmission line pylon, and cars," is said in the JFO FB-page.
During the past 24hrs, Ukrainian State Emergency Service officers made 32 departures to help the population and eliminate the consequences of hostilities. They also extinguished 8 fires caused by enemy shelling.
At the same time, pyrotechnics found 46 explosive devices. Thus, 28 of 152-mm shells that did not explode were found on the territory of the Kapitalna mine fired the day before.
Explosive ordnance disposal continues in Lyman, Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.
On April 21, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repulsed 10 enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions. Almost two hundred russian occupiers were eliminated by the Ukrainian fighters in the area of responsibility of the operational and tactical group "East".