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Governor: Russian attacks in Donetsk Oblast kill 2 people over past 24 hours

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Governor: Russian attacks in Donetsk Oblast kill 2 people over past 24 hours
The aftermath of Russian attacks on Donetsk Oblast on June 6, 2023. (Photo: Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko / Telegram) 

Two people were killed by Russian attacks in Donetsk Oblast over the past 24 hours, Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported on June 7.

According to Kyrylenko, one person was killed in the village of Torske by shelling.

Another person was killed in the village of Pivnichne. Five buildings in the community were also damaged.

Multiple other settlements were hit by shelling and the city of Avdiivka was targeted by rocket fire, Kyrylenko wrote.

A total of 1,551 people have been killed in Donetsk Oblast since the start of the full-scale invasion, while 3,653 people have sustained injuries of varying degrees of severity.

However, the actual numbers are much higher, since it is currently impossible to calculate casualties in occupied Volnovakha and Mariupol.

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Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent who writes mostly about culture-related topics in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. Her newsletter Explaining Ukraine with Kate Tsurkan, which focuses specifically on Ukrainian culture, is published weekly by the Kyiv Independent. The U.S. publisher Deep Vellum published her co-translation of Ukrainian author Oleh Sentsov’s Diary of a Hunger Striker in 2024. Some of her other writing and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Apofenie Magazine.

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