Russian attacks also damaged residential buildings, cars, greenhouses, gas pipelines in Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk oblasts over past day
As fighting continues across the frontlines in southern and eastern Ukraine, ISW reports confirmed Ukrainian advances near Donetsk, Kreminna, and in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, against Russian movements near Kupiansk and Kreminna.
Moscow blames Kyiv; however, occupied Donetsk could also have been shelled by the Russian forces to intimidate local residents and discredit the Ukrainian government.
Former chief of Russian-run Donetsk prison has been sentenced to 15 years for overseeing torture of Ukrainian prisoners, but denies committing atrocities despite victim accounts of abuse on his orders.
Since the Russian full-scale invasion, Russia launched about 7,400 missiles and 3,700 Shahed attack drones at targets in Ukraine. Ukraine’s Air Forces downed 1,600 missiles and 2,900 drones, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force Command said.
Ukraine likely hit a Russian drone operator training facility in occupied Donetsk. Ukrainian forces continue counteroffensives near Donetsk's Bakhmut and in western Zaporizhia Oblast. US Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-led bill aimed at providing emergency aid to Israel without allocating funds for Ukraine
Multiple reports indicate that Russia's combat drone operator training center in Donetsk, occupied by Russian forces since 2014, was hit by an alleged Ukrainian HIMARS strike. Russia's TASS disclosed the facility earlier this year.
The Avdiyivka offensive forces Russian troops to walk a mile in Ukrainian shoes. Like the Ukrainians during the counteroffensive on the southern front, the Russians have to wade through vast minefields under relentless artillery fire.
Russia launched widespread missile strikes across Ukraine on Thursday, damaging civilian infrastructure. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces continued limited advances around Bakhmut and Kreminna.
The highway bridge connecting Donetsk's occupied Horlivka to Yasynuvata and Donetsk City was destroyed, hindering the Russian military's transit and affecting their ongoing operations near Ukraine-controlled Avdiivka northwest of Donetsk.