In its latest update, Ukraine’s General Staff of the Armed Forces says Russian forces are continuing to launch missile strikes on residential neighbourhoods across the country, focusing on targeting fuel storage compartments in an effort to “complicate logistics” and “create conditions for a humanitarian crisis”.
In recent days fuel depots in several cities such as the capital Kyiv, as well as Lviv, Rivne, Zhytomyr and Lutsk, have been reportedly hit.
The Ukrainian military also claims that Russian units are terrorising local populations in the capital Kyiv, Zaphorizhzhia in the south-east, Kherson in the south and Kharkiv in the east by looting, kidnapping and holding civilians hostage.
The BBC cannot immediately verify some of these claims. But as we’ve reported earlier this week, some Ukrainian civilians are being arbitrarily detained and subjected to enforced disappearances in Russian-controlled areas.