At least two dead in Donetsk due to clashes between Russian troops and the Ukrainian Army

Aug. 22 () –

At least two civilians died in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, in the east of the country, due to clashes between Russian troops and the Ukrainian Army this Sunday, as reported on Monday by the head of the Regional State Administration of the region, Pavlo Kirilenko. .

This has been communicated in a message on his Telegram profile, specifying that the two civilians are natives of the towns of Georgiivka and Kostiantinivka,” as reported by the Ukrinform news agency.

Kirilenko has also specified that this Monday Russian troops have caused damage to a school in the region. Since the start of the Russian invasion last February, Russian troops have damaged a total of 594 educational institutions in the Donetsk region, including 263 schools, according to UNIAN.

On the other hand, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office has reported that a nine-year-old boy has been injured as a result of cluster bomb shelling in the Dnipropetrovsk region, while another shelling in the town of Bashtanka , in Mikolaiv, has injured a one and a half year old boy.

“More than 1,096 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s large-scale armed aggression. As of the morning of August 22, 2022, the official number of child victims per day has not changed: 373. The number of wounded has increased: more than 723,” says the Attorney General’s Office.

Thus, within the framework of operations in eastern Ukraine, Russian troops “continue to concentrate their efforts” in Kramatorsk and partially in Bakhmut, as well as in Sloviansk and Kharkov, according to the Armed Forces General Staff in its latest report. from Ukraine.