Brovary, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, was attacked by rocket strikes on Sunday morning, according to a statement by its mayor, Ihor Sapozhko.

Sapozhko said that “some infrastructure objects were hit” in the wee hours of Sunday. The mayor added that it is likely that interruptions in water and power supply will occur due to damaged infrastructure.

In the past few days, Russia has channeled its attacks mainly on Kyiv and surrounding suburbs. 

On Sunday, Russia’s defence ministry confirmed that it hit a military plant outside Kyiv.

“During the night, high-precision, air-launched missiles destroyed an ammunitions factory near the settlement of Brovary, Kyiv region,” the ministry wrote in a statement on Telegram.

Meanwhile, war-torn Ukraine said in a statement on Sunday that it was suspending the evacuation of civilians from the eastern part of the country for a day due to a failure to agree on some terms with Russian forces. 

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Referring to Putin’s forces, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in a statement on social media: “As of this morning, April 17, we have not been able to agree with the occupiers on a ceasefire on the evacuation routes. That is why, unfortunately, we are not opening humanitarian corridors today.”

Ukrainian authorities requested people living in the eastern region of Donbas to move west in order to flee Russia’s attempt to seize the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.

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Urging Russian troops to permit civilian evacuations from the beleaguered city of Mariupol, Vereshchuk wrote: “Once again, we demand the opening of a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians, especially women and children, from Mariupol.”

To make matters worse, Russia has now declared an ultimatum and has ordered Ukraine’s forces to surrender and leave the port city of Mariupol by Sunday.