Alyona Yatsyna is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
At least one woman was killed and three others wounded in the Ukrainian town of Bilopillya, in the Sumy region, local officials said on April 8. Another Russian attack on April 9 hit the building of the local children's boarding school in the town of Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region.
Russia has dramatically increased attacks on the Ukrainian border town of Velyka Pysarivka, where our journalists witnessed the destruction caused by hundreds of aerial bombs, rockets, artillery shells, and drones.