The Russian military shelled the city of Kharkiv 66 times in the past 24 hours. This was announced by the head of the regional military administration Oleh Sinyehubov. According to him, as a result, 9 people were injured. Russian troops inflicted more than half a hundred artillery and mortar strikes on various areas.

Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the Russian military had been attacking Kharkiv for the past two days, dropping parachute shells on the city.

On April 9, near Rubizhne in Luhansk region, the Russian military again hit a tank with 4 tons of nitric acid. The wind carried steam from the blast to the area of Russian positions. The head of Luhansk regional military administration Serhiy Haidai reported about it. There is no threat to the lives of civilians.

For almost 4 days more than half a thousand people could not be evacuated from Melitopol. Since April 6, the Russian military had been blocking buses.

Ukraine and Russia held a third exchange of captives. 26 citizens were returned to Ukraine, 12 of them military and 14 civilians. This was announced on Facebook by Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.

In Kharkiv, rescuers caught a cat that had been sitting under the rubble of a destroyed five-story building for two weeks. Residents of the house told rescuers that there was a cat in the apartment on the 4th floor. He was seen behind the sofa. The rescuer said that the cat was scared and dirty, but not injured. He was handed over to one of the residents of the house. The cat is now safe, fed and waiting for its owners.