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ARCHIVE - A rescue worker clears the rubble from a residential building. Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP/dpa/Archive photo
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According to Ukrainian reports, at least three civilians have been killed by Russian shelling in the frontline town of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region. Another person was injured, the governor of the Donetsk region, Vadym Filashkin, announced on Telegram. According to the public prosecutor's office, the shelling took place in the early afternoon and hit a residential area. What the city was attacked with is still being investigated.
Russian troops are only a few kilometers from Pokrovsk in the east, south and southwest. As the city has been a focal point of the fighting for months, it has been badly destroyed. Only a few thousand of the once more than 60,000 inhabitants remain.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Ukrainian defenders in this section of the front on Saturday.
22.03.2025, 22:45
