KYIV: Russian shelling on Friday killed at least four people and wounded nine others in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the governor said.
In the town of Myrnohrad, two people were killed and six were wounded in an attack near an administrative building and a bus stop, Vadym Filashkin, the governor said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
He said that a separate attack in the town of Kostiantynivka killed two civilians and wounded three others.
He also published images from the impact sites alongside his post showing badly-damaged buildings and a bus with shattered windows. There was also a burnt car.
Donetsk region, which Russian forces occupy partially, regularly comes under Russian shelling and airstrikes. Moscow rejects targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure in its Ukraine war, although thousands of people have been killed.
The Russian army on Thursday claimed that it had captured another village in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the latest territorial gain for Moscow’s armed forces.
The Russian defence ministry confirmed that its forces had seized control of Voskhod, located approximately 30 kilometers northwest of Donetsk City. This development underscores Russia’s continued military operations in the region, which it claims to have annexed despite global condemnation and sanctions.
The conflict has seen intense fighting across the Donetsk region, with Ukraine describing the current period as witnessing some of the fiercest battles since the onset of hostilities. Despite Russian assertions of progress, neither side has achieved a decisive breakthrough, with both Moscow and Kyiv reporting large numbers of casualties.
Kyiv hopes fresh supplies of Western arms that are being delivered to the front lines will help its outmanned and outgunned troops resist the Russian pressure.
