2023-08-07 18:38:03
According to information from Kiev, at least five people were killed in Russian attacks on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk today. “Five dead and 18 injured as a result of two attacks on a residential building in Pokrovsk,” Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko wrote on Telegram. The first attack killed four civilians, and the second attack also killed a high-ranking representative of the Donetsk region’s emergency services.
Two rockets hit a residential area, which also has hotels, restaurants and shops, the head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said in Telegram. He also published several photos showing, among other things, a completely destroyed building.
Moscow hit an “ordinary apartment building,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Twitter, which was recently renamed “X.” He published photographs of a typical Soviet-era five-story building, the top floor of which had been destroyed.
Moscow reports land gains in the north-east
According to Russia, it has gained ground along the front near Kupjansk in north-eastern Ukraine. According to the Defense Ministry in Moscow, in the “last three days” Russian soldiers had penetrated “three kilometers deep into the enemy’s defenses” over a distance of eleven kilometers. This information cannot be independently verified.
The army has improved its position along the front there and continues to repel Ukrainian counterattacks. Ukrainian forces recaptured the area around the city of Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region from Russia in September. Russia has been intensifying its attacks in the area for several weeks and has now been waging a war of aggression once morest neighboring Ukraine for more than 17 months.
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