It was updated on Mar 1, 2022.
More than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed by a Russian rocket attack in the city of Okhtyrka on Tuesday, according to Ukraine authorities who have accused Moscow of engaging in barbaric tactics and war crimes.
This photograph shows a view of a school destroyed as a result of a fight.
Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, the region's head, shared photos of a charred and demolished four-story building in Okhtyrka.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the Russian forces of engaging in war crimes and noted that 16 children were killed by Russian bombardments in the first four days of fighting.
At least 11 people were killed in Russian strikes on the city of Kharkiv on Monday, after the civilian death toll in Ukraine had been reported at 352.
The Ukrainian defense minister claimed on Tuesday that more than 5,700 Russian soldiers have been killed by the Ukrainians since the beginning of the invasion.
Russia acknowledged deaths and injuries among its soldiers for the first time on Monday, but did not offer any concrete numbers and claimed that losses were less than in Ukrainian forces.
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