Ukraine's Chernihiv 70% destroyed by Russian shelling, attacks: report

Around 70 percent of the buildings and infrastructure in Ukraine's northern city of Chernihiv have been destroyed as a result of shelling and attacks by Russian invading forces, its mayor has said, according to a report. 

Destroyed buildings in the city of Chernihiv, Ukraine, April 3, 2022.

Photo: EPA/NATALIIA DUBROVSKA

"Our city resembles Bucha, and in some areas, it is already like Mariupol,” Mayor Vladyslav Atroshenko said, as quoted by the weareukraine.info website.

"People want to know how to live through until tomorrow," he added.

Atroshenko warned that the city needed better air defences in the future, according to weareukraine.info.

“There is a concentration of Russian troops here on the border with Belarus," he was quoted as saying. "We want to know how the air defense systems will work, or the bombs will continue falling on our heads."

According to Ukrainian military commander Victor Nikolyuk, Russian troops were forced to withdraw from Chernihiv because of their "declining moral and psychological condition," combined with "poor condition of equipment, lack of material and technical supply and ammunition," the en.lb.ua website reported.

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Source: weareukraine.info, en.lb.ua