Airstrikes hit Zhytomyr region overnight

Ukrainian officials have reported airstrikes in the northern region late last night. One person was killed and three injured in a strike on a two-storey building, Ukraine’s ministry of internal affairs said. The blasts also hit a warehouse, office building and apartment.

Ukrainian men try to escape country in car bootsMen have hidden in the boots of cars and jumped on trains in desperate attempts to flee Ukraine, the country’s ministry of internal affairs has said.

In its latest update, the ministry said some men had also pretended to be foreigners or tried to bribe border guards.

Ukrainian men of fighting age are currently not allowed to leave the country and are being strongly encouraged to fight against Russian forces. One man was discovered in the boot of his wife’s Lexus at a border checkpoint in Luzhanka on the Hungary-Ukraine border.

Another was found hiding among possessions in the boot of a Mitsubishi car.

The man had then tried to pay the border guards,Another man jumped on a train and tried to cross the border without passing border control, the ministry said.

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