News Feed

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

1 min read
Russian attacks kill 2 people in Donetsk Oblast over past 24 hours
A damaged house in Donetsk Oblast after Russian attacks on May 4, 2023. (Photo: Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko/Telegram)

Two people were killed and five were injured by Russian attacks in Donetsk Oblast over the past 24 hours, Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported on May 5.

According to Kyrylenko, one person was killed and three were injured in the village of New York.

In Bakhmut, which has been the epicenter of fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces for the past nine months, another person was killed.

Two other people were injured in the city of Toretsk and the village of Mykolaivka, respectively.

A total of 1,491 people have been officially reported killed and 3,474 more injured in Donetsk Oblast since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, Kyrylenko wrote.

However, the actual numbers could be significantly higher as they do not include casualty rates in occupied Volnovakha and Mariupol, which are currently impossible to calculate.

Avatar
The Kyiv Independent news desk

We are the news team of the Kyiv Independent. We are here to make sure our readers get quick, essential updates about the events in Ukraine. Feel free to contact us via email with feedback and news alerts.

Read more
News Feed
 (Updated:  )

The Washington-based lender called Ukraine's performance "broadly satisfactory" in a press release announcing its approval, but emphasized that several conditions of the program were either completed with a delay or missed entirely.

Russia occupied and illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. In recent months, Ukrainian forces have increasingly targeted power substations, bridges, ferry crossings, air defenses, military logistics routes, and Russian vessels in the Black and Azov seas as part of a broader campaign to isolate Crimea.

Show More