(Reuters) – Russian attacks on a series of villages killed five residents of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Friday, prosecutors in the region said.
Donetsk prosecutors, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said one resident was killed in the town of Pokrovsk, a focal point of Russian advances westward through Donetsk region.
Two others were killed in attacks on villages near the city of Kostyantynivka, farther northeast and one other victim was identified as a resident of a village near the town of Kurakhove, which Russia’s military said it captured in January.
Russian troops have been advancing slowly but steadily through Donetsk region as part of a drive to capture the Donbas, made up of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Oleksandr Kozhukhar)
