Five people were killed by Russian shelling in the town of Chasiv Yar on Saturday as Moscow’s troops continue their push on Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. The attack struck a high-rise building and a private home, said regional governor Vadym Filaskhin, who said the victims were men aged between 24 and 38. He urged the last remaining residents to leave the front-line town, which had a pre-war population of 12,000. “Normal life has been impossible in Chasiv Yar for more than two years,” Filaskhin wrote on social media. “Do not become a Russian target — evacuate.”
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- Five people were killed by Russian shelling in the town of Chasiv Yar as Moscow’s forces continue their aggressive push in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, highlighting the ongoing intensity of the conflict.
- Russian forces claim to have captured the town of Pivnichne in Donetsk, though this claim has not been independently verified, as they advance further into the region, aiming to fully occupy it.
- Ukrainian forces have launched incursions into Russia’s Kursk region, marking the largest movement onto Russian soil since World War II, in an effort to divert Russian troops from the Donetsk front.
- In Kharkiv, the death toll from a Russian attack has risen to six, with 96 people injured, following strikes on multiple locations, including a 12-story apartment block that caught fire and is now set for partial demolition.
- In Russia’s Belgorod region, Ukrainian shelling killed five people and injured 46, including seven children, as cross-border violence escalates on both sides.
The Associated Press has the story:
5 killed by Russian strike as Moscow continues its latest push in Ukraine’s East
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Five people were killed by Russian shelling in the town of Chasiv Yar on Saturday as Moscow’s troops continue their push on Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. The attack struck a high-rise building and a private home, said regional governor Vadym Filaskhin, who said the victims were men aged between 24 and 38. He urged the last remaining residents to leave the front-line town, which had a pre-war population of 12,000. “Normal life has been impossible in Chasiv Yar for more than two years,” Filaskhin wrote on social media. “Do not become a Russian target — evacuate.”
Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that it had captured the town of Pivnichne, also in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The Associated Press could not independently verify the claim. Russian forces have been driving deeper into the partly occupied eastern region, the total capture of which is one of the Kremlin’s primary ambitions. Russia’s army is closing in on Pokrovsk, a critical logistics hub for the Ukrainian defense in the area.
At the same time, Ukraine has sent its forces into Russia’s Kursk region in recent weeks in the largest incursion onto Russian soil since World War II. The move is partly an effort to force Russia to draw troops away from the Donetsk front. Elsewhere, the number of injured following a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Friday continued to rise.
Six people were killed, including a 14-year-old girl, when glide bombs struck five locations across the city, said regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov. Writing on social media Saturday, he said that the number of injured had risen from 47 to 96. Syniehubov also confirmed that the 12-story apartment block that was hit by one bomb strike, setting the building ablaze and trapping at least one person on an upper floor, would be partly demolished.
The number of injured also continued to rise in the Russian border region of Belgorod, where five people were killed Friday by Ukrainian shelling, said Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov. He said Sunday that 46 people had been injured, of whom 37 were in the hospital, including seven children.
