Residents Evacuated From Donetsk Oblast City Following Strikes

Police in Donetsk evacuated residents from the city of Lyman amid reports of shelling.

Footage released by Donetsk Regional Police on April 27 shows heavily damaged apartment blocks and civilians getting into police cars and onto buses.

City officials said on April 26 that shelling over the previous 24 hours had damaged 20 residential buildings and civilian infrastructure facilities. Four people, including two children, had been killed, they said.

Evacuation efforts were set to continue on April 28, with buses planned to leave for Dnipro. Credit: Donetsk Regional Police via Storyful