Russia launched four missile and bombing strikes on Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Lysychansk and Zolote-4 on Tuesday. Two people died.
The enemy also stormed the area of Popasna, where hostilities continued, - announced by Serhiy Haidai the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration.
"Yesterday, each of our cities suffered from the enemy. Four settlements withstood missile and bombing hits. The russians are not just destroying Popasna - they are removing it from the map of Luhansk region as a settlement. 34 times the enemy hit residential areas of the region," - he wrote.
The victims of the shelling are a woman from Lysychansk and a man from Popasna. Two more women were injured in Lysychansk. This city was hit by 10 shellings yesterday. Severodonetsk got eight, Popasna and Hirske communities - another ten.
Four houses were damaged in Severodonetsk, 12 in Lysychansk, seven in Orikhovo, six in Rubizhne, four in Horsky, four in Popasna, and two in Vrubivka.
"In Lysychansk, the flames engulfed the building of the Luhansk Regional Medical Center for Dangerous Infectious Diseases and one of the city's schools. In Syrotyn, the only school in the village caught fire. In Severodonetsk, a shopping center," the head of administration added.
Meanwhile, the defenders repulsed 12 enemy attacks - destroyed six tanks, five artillery rocket systems (including 3 MLRS), 15 units of armored combat vehicles and nine enemy vehicles. Air defense units shot down one cruise missile and three Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles.
The russian military destroyed the anti-tuberculosis dispensary in the Luhansk region. On May 3, a Belgian heritage building caught fire as a result of shelling.
Yesterday, the russians launched missile strikes on Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Zakarpattia, Odesa and Donetsk regions. Zakarpattia was hit for the first time during the war.