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Pavlo Kyrylenko, Ukraine's governor of Donetsk, has posted an operational update listing a number of settlements that suffered bombardment and massive artillery shelling" damaging houses and residential buildings. He stated that In total, the Russians wounded 8 residents of Donetsk region in one day."
The claims have not been independently verified. Donetsk is one of the partially occupied regions of Ukraine which the Russian Federation claims to have annexed.
In the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv, during a night attack, a fragment of a downed drone hit the 25th floor of a building, destroying one of the apartments.
The man whose apartment was hit was at home - he was wounded by shrapnel, he was given help, now he is in a stable condition, reports our correspondent, who managed to talk to him.
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