On April 16, Russia fired three missiles at Mykolaiv, which flew over the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant in the Mykolaiv region. The missiles were fired from Belarus. There was a great threat to target a nuclear reactor.

*** In the Kyiv region, law enforcement officers have already found the bodies of 1,084 civilians, of which 75% are people killed by the Russians with small arms.

*** Russia named the new goals of the second stage of the so-called "special operation" (the war). There they declared their intention to establish full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine.

*** Slavyansk was shelled at night, probably with cluster bombs.

***The Russian military is preparing to take full control over the city of Oleshki in the Kherson region from April 23. The city has been in the Russian zone of occupation since the beginning of the war. However, the Ukrainian authorities were still active there.

*** The UN Human Rights Office has described the war in Ukraine as a "horrific history of violations against the civilian population" in which respect for international law has been "set aside".

*** The head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported that the Russians fired at the regional trauma hospital in the city of Liman with Uragan volley fire systems.

*** An AN-26 transport plane, which was performing a technical flight, crashed in the Zaporizhzhia region. It is known about one dead and two wounded. The plane touched an electric pillar, as a result of which the engine caught fire.