Russian forces killed one person and wounded five more in Ukraine鈥檚 eastern Donetsk region, which is suffering the most intense assaults from Moscow鈥檚 army, regional authorities said on Wednesday.
The Kremlin claimed to have annexed the Donetsk region along with three other regions in 2022, despite not fully controlling them and Russian-backed separatists have held the region鈥檚 main city of Donetsk since 2014.
鈥極ne person was killed and five were wounded. These are the consequences of bombardments this morning in the Donetsk region,鈥� it鈥檚 governor Vadym Filashkin said on social media.
He said one civilian was killed and four others wounded near the town of Toretsk and that another person was wounded by a separate aerial attack on the frontline town of Selydove.
The Kremlin says its forces only target military infrastructure in Ukraine and AFP was unable to independently confirm details of the attack.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said this week that Russian forces were focusing their main firepower on the Donetsk region and not the northeastern Kharkiv region where they launched a new offensive last month.
