Smoke rises from gutted homes after Russia shelling kills one in Pokrovsk, Ukraine
After 29 months of invasion, Russia is making gradual gains in Donetsk, with heavy assaults near Pokrovsk as Kyiv's forces are stretched thin.
Rescue workers were still dousing the flames as dazed residents looked on two hours after the impact. (File photo/Representational) Russian shelling of a residential area killed one person and injured two on Saturday in this strategic logistical hub in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, the regional governor said.
“The Russians hit civilians on purpose and regularly,” Vadym Filashkin, the Donetsk regional governor, wrote on the Telegram messaging app. “Don’t risk your life! Evacuate!”
Twenty-nine months into its full-scale invasion, with Kyiv’s forces stretched thin, Russia has been steadily inching forward on several fronts in Donetsk, staging particularly fierce attacks near Pokrovsk.
Reuters witnesses saw a helmet lying beside a pool of blood and a moped 10 metres (yards) from a crater a metre wide in the middle of a residential street. Smoke rose from the burnt-out remains of one house levelled in the afternoon strike and a second building across the street that had been gutted by fire.
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