(Kyiv) Russian airstrikes killed seven people and wounded 29 in eastern Ukraine on Friday, and Ukrainian attacks killed five people and wounded 26 in Moscow-controlled territory, according to the respective authorities.
What there is to know
- Ukraine has received the third Patriot air defense system promised by Germany in April to help it cope with Russian bombing.
- Vladimir Putin told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday that Ukraine must give up four eastern and southern regions, including Donetsk, if Kyiv wants peace.
According to Ukrainian governor of the eastern Donetsk region Vadim Filashkin, one woman was killed and 20 other people were injured by Russian artillery fire on the town of Komar, where homes, shops and an administrative building were damaged.
Mr Filachkin also said that a rocket attack left one dead and one injured in the city of Ukrainsk.
“It is dangerous to stay here, as in the rest of the Donetsk region,” he wrote on social media, once again calling on residents to leave.
Five people died after a double strike in the town of Selydove, located near a sector of the front line where Russian forces are advancing, the governor continued. Eight other people were injured. According to the prosecutor’s office, the two bombs fell an hour apart.
In the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, three people were killed and ten injured, including rescuers, in Volnovakha, in the east, by a Ukrainian HIMARS missile strike, local authorities announced, quoted by Russian news agencies.
Seven other people were injured in a Ukrainian shelling in Pervomaisk, in the neighboring region of Luhansk, which is almost entirely under Russian control, local authorities announced, without immediately specifying the place of death of the other two people.
Russian troops have been gaining ground in eastern Ukraine for months without making any major breakthroughs.
This week, they seized a district of the strategic city of Chassiv Yar.