Earlier, Governor Maxim Marchino said that three missiles hit a residential area and that there were casualties.
The Southern Ukrainian Army Command said in a Facebook post that the bombing targeted vital infrastructure facilities whose destruction could be dangerous for the civilian population, but failed to reach their targets..
On the other hand, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration Kirillo Tymoshenko said that Ukraine and Russia exchanged prisoners in a deal under which 86 members of the Ukrainian army were released..
The Ukrainian official did not specify the number of Russian soldiers who were released as part of the deal, but said that the exchange process was the result of the ongoing peace negotiations between the two sides.
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