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Governor: Russian attacks on Donetsk Oblast injure 3 people

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Governor: Russian attacks on Donetsk Oblast injure 3 people
The aftermath of Russian attacks in Donetsk Oblast on June 4, 2023. (Photo: Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko / Telegram)

Three people were injured by Russian shelling and air strikes in Donetsk Oblast over the past 24 hours, Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported on June 5.

According to Kyrylenko, one person was injured in Toretsk and another in Novomarkove following Russian air strikes.

One person was also injured in Maksymivka due to shelling, Kyrylenko wrote.

Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, 1,548 people have been injured in Donetsk Oblast and 3,647 people have been killed.

These numbers do not include the casualty rates in occupied Volnovakha and Mariupol, as they are impossible to calculate.

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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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