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Prosecutors: Russian forces shell Kostiantynivka, killing 1, injuring 2

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Prosecutors: Russian forces shell Kostiantynivka, killing 1, injuring 2
The aftermath of Russian attacks in Kostiantynivka on June 12, 2023. (Photo: Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office / Facebook)

Russian forces shelled the city of Kostiantynivka on June 12, killing one person and injuring two others, the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office reported.

According to prosecutors, a 49-year-old man was killed while mowing the lawn of a football field in a local park.

A residential area of the city was also targeted, and a 38-year-old man and an 85-year-old woman sustained shrapnel injuries as a result.

Kostiantynivka is located a little over 26 kilometers to the west of Bakhmut, the once-prosperous industrial city that has witnessed the most intense fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops.

Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported early on June 12 that 1,557 civilians have been killed and 3,678 others have been injured in the region since Russia launched its all-out war.

Cities and villages in Donetsk Oblast are targeted by Russian forces on a daily basis, and many of them, including Bakhmut, have been completely destroyed.

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Kate Tsurkan

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Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent who writes mostly about culture-related topics. Her newsletter Explaining Ukraine with Kate Tsurkan, which focuses specifically on Ukrainian culture, is published weekly by the Kyiv Independent and is partially supported by a generous grant from the Nadia Sophie Seiler Fund. Kate co-translated Oleh Sentsov’s “Diary of a Hunger Striker,” Myroslav Laiuk’s “Bakhmut,” Andriy Lyubka’s “War from the Rear,” and Khrystia Vengryniuk’s “Long Eyes,” among other books. Some of her previous 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 and, in addition to Ukrainian and Russian, also knows French.

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