War in Ukraine: Dead and injured in artillery fire in eastern Ukraine

According to official information, at least one person has been killed in Russian artillery attacks in Eastern Ukraine and four more were seriously injured. In the city of Pokrowsk, who had been fought for weeks, a woman died on the edge of Donbass, and four people were injured in Konstantinowka when grenades were involved in residential buildings, said the regional military administrator Wadim Filaschkin on Telegram.

Around Pokrowsk again, heavy battles raged again, as the general staff in Kyiv said. In total, Russian units had started in various places against the Ukrainian lines of defense with artillery support with artillery support for 38 attacks in various places. The attacks were repelled, it said. The information could not be confirmed independently.

According to the Ukrainian strategy expert Andrij Ryschenko, the Russian military continued on the fronts around the Donbass. “Above all, she is interested in Pokwrowsk, which is an economic goal,” said Ryschenko on radio. “It is known that there are several coal shafts there.” Therefore, the conquest of the city for Russia is important from an economic point of view.