0of 5,000

Help us find 5,000 new members. Bring one friend.

Share your personal link and make us stronger in 2027.

0 found so far

Goal 5,000

News Feed

Russian attacks on Donetsk Oblast kill 6, injure 19

• 2 min read
Russian attacks on Donetsk Oblast kill 6, injure 19
Aftermath of Russian attacks on Donetsk Oblast on July 12, 2024. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Telegram) 

Russian forces carried out several attacks against Donetsk Oblast on July 12, killing six people and injuring at least 19 others, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported.

The town of Lyman in the Kramatorsk district came under fire, injuring seven people. Private homes and at least one private vehicle were destroyed.

In the Pokrovsk area, four people were killed and nine others were injured, including a child, as a result of the shelling.

At least two people were trapped under rubble in the city of Kostyantynivka following intense shelling and a fire in one of the buildings. At least other three people were also injured. During rescue operations, emergency workers recovered two dead bodies from the rubble.

Russia is carrying out intense attacks in multiple sections of the eastern front, including in Donetsk Oblast, after it captured the city of Avdiivka in February.

Earlier in July, Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the Kanal neighborhood of the embattled town of Chasiv Yar in the region.

Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi said on July 2 that fighting had been particularly intense in recent weeks around the town of Toretsk, located some 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Chasiv Yar.

Avatar
Rachel Amran

News Editor

Rachel Amran is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. She previously worked on the Europe and Central Asia team of Human Rights Watch investigating war crimes in Ukraine. Rachel holds a master's degree in Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Regional Studies from Columbia University.

Read more
News Feed
 (Updated:  )

The grounding was the first nationwide flight stoppage since January 2023, when an FAA computer system malfunctioned. Before that, the last nationwide grounding followed the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

 (Updated:  )

Local authorities later on Nov. 13 reported that a rescue worker from the Cobra emergency service was killed when a concrete slab fell on him while he was clearing debris from a building damaged in the Russian attack.

 (Updated:  )

Duka is a suspect in a sweeping investigation by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) into scam call centers. The probe led to the ouster of Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, who fled Ukraine in September, and implicated senior officials in his office.

Show More