Live: Russian rockets ‘destroy’ Ukraine’s Dnipro airport

Issued on: 10/04/2022 – 15:48

3:40pm: 2,200 Ukrainian men detained for trying to leave country

Ukraine’s border guard agency says that about 2,200 Ukrainian men of fighting age have been detained so far while trying to leave the country in violation of martial law.

The agency said Sunday that some of them have used forged documents and others tried to bribe border guards to get out of the country. It said some have been found dead while trying to cross the Carpathian mountains in adverse weather, without specifying the number.

Under martial law, Ukrainian men between 18 and 60 are barred from leaving the country so that they can be called up to fight.

2:49pm: Russian rockets destroy Dnipro airport

Russian forces fired rockets into Ukraine’s Luhansk and Dnipro regions on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, completely destroying an airport and potentially leaving casualties.

“The airport itself was destroyed, as well as nearby infrastructure. And the rockets fly and fly,” Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the central Dnipropetrovsk region, said.

Serhiy Gaidai, governor of Luhansk, an eastern region bordering Russia, wrote earlier on Telegram that a school and a high-rise apartment building had been hit in the city of Sievierodonetsk. “Fortunately, no casualties,” Gaidai said.