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Governor: Russian attacks on Donetsk Oblast injure 3 people
June 5, 2023 11:28 AM
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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
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Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent. She is a writer, editor, and translator. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Apofenie Magazine. Originally from the U.S., she resides in Chernivtsi, a city in the west of Ukraine.
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