Kharkiv sees intense shelling overnight

KYIV, Apr 06 (BBC/Reuters/AFP): Russian forces continue to shell cities in eastern and southern Ukraine, and strike targets elsewhere with missiles. Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv, saw intense shelling overnight.
There were also further artillery attacks in parts of Luhansk and Donetsk regions where fighting is expected to intensify in the weeks ahead, as Russia regroups its forces.
According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russia targeted Ukrainian army positions and civilian infrastructure in Borivske, Novoluhanske, Solodke, Marinka and Zolota Nyva - in the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Russian forces have also been continuing their offensive against Mariupol, which it has blockaded and relentlessly bombarded for over a month. The latest intelligence update from the UK's Ministry of Defence said the humanitarian situation in the city was "worsening".
It said: "Most of the city's 160,000 residents have no light, communication, medicine, heat or water. Russian forces have prevented humanitarian access, likely to pressure defenders to surrender."
Elsewhere, Russia has destroyed an oil depot near the city of Dnipro, and hit targets in the Vinnytsia region of central Ukraine, and Radekhiv in the west.

Foreign merchant ship hit by missile in Mariupol
A foreign-flagged merchant ship was hit by a Russian navy missile in the besieged southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol with one crew member needing medical care, a Ukrainian official said on Tuesday.
Ukraine said it was bracing for about 60,000 Russian reservists to be called in to reinforce Moscow's offensive in the east, where Russia's main targets have included Mariupol and Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city.
The Dominica-flagged cargo ship Azburg's engine room was hit by a missile late on Monday, said Viktor Vyshnov, deputy head of Ukraine's Maritime Administration.
"The ship was burned and all 12 crew members were evacuated to another ship. One crew member needed medical help which was given to him and he was evacuated," Vyshnov told Reuters.

Ukrainians fleeing occupation pour into Zaporizhzhia
A large white tent in a shopping centre car park in Zaporizhzhia has become the meeting place for thousands from southern Ukraine who have fled the Russian invasion and left everything behind.
The lot is a transit point for those escaping besieged Mariupol, over 200 kilometres (124 miles) to the southeast, and the coastal region captured by Russian forces.
Under the marquee, displaced people eat at communal tables, are given clothes, medicine and even toys, as they wait for buses to take them on to regions less exposed to attacks.
Children's drawings have been stuck to the inside of the tarp, most of them celebrating Ukraine and its army. One is a portrait of a green-eyed black cat with the message: "If you find my cat Myka, let the psychologist know."