(Kyiv) Russian airstrikes killed four people and wounded 23 in eastern Ukraine on Friday, and Ukrainian attacks killed three people and wounded 17 in Moscow-controlled territory, according to the respective authorities.
According to Ukrainian governor of the eastern Donetsk region Vadim Filashkin, one woman was killed and 20 other people 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.
Two other people died and two were injured in the town of Selydove, located near a sector of the front line where Russian forces are advancing, the governor continued.
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 more people were injured in a Ukrainian shelling in Pervomaisk, in the neighboring Luhansk region, which is almost entirely under Russian control, local authorities announced on Telegram.
Among the injured was an elderly couple who were hospitalized with serious burns. A seven-year-old girl was also injured, the source said.
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.