At least five civilians were killed in Russia’s shelling of Ukraine’s Donetsk region on 5 August; 14 more were injured, says Pavlo Kyrylenko, the local governor.

The people were killed in Opytne, Avdiivka, Soledar, and Pervomaiskyi. Houses in Konstiantynivka, Krasnohorivka, Druzhkivka, Kurakhivka, and Kurakhove were damaged.

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How Nalyvaikivka, a fearless village in Ukraine’s Kyiv region, lived through four months of war and what its residents think of the so-called “grain ceasefire”

Two civilians were heavily injured in missile strikes in Mykolaiv, and three more suffered wounds in Nikopol. Kharkiv was also attacked, but no injured were reported there as of yet.

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