Russian assaults kill 5, together with household, in east Ukraine

#Russian assaults killed at the very least 5 folks, together with three members of a displaced household, in separate assaults throughout #Ukraine’s war-scarred east, Ukrainian authorities mentioned on Thursday (July 24, 2025).

A pair and their 36-year-old son had been killed in a village within the japanese #Kharkiv area on late Wednesday, native officers mentioned. Two extra girls had been killed within the #Donetsk area on Thursday (July 24, 2025).

#Russia has stepped up drone and missile assaults on #Ukraine greater than three years into its invasion, even because the fighters meet for ceasefire talks.

The #Russian military has additionally been making advances on the bottom. Families with youngsters had been ordered out of 10 settlements in #Donetsk, together with the city of #Dobropillia, the place 28,000 folks lived earlier than the battle.

“I emphasise once again: staying in the #Donetsk region is extremely dangerous,” mentioned regional governor Vadim Filashkin.

#Donetsk regional officers issued blurred photos of one of many bloodied girls killed in Kostyantynivka, the place a dozen different folks had been wounded. #Russian forces are progressively encircling the commercial hub.

A strike afterward #Kharkiv metropolis wounded 37 folks, together with a 10-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy and woman, the governor mentioned.

A separate #Russian drone and missile barrage wounded seven folks in a single day, together with a toddler, within the central Ukrainian area of #Cherkasy, emergency providers mentioned.

And within the southern port metropolis of #Odesa, a #Russian drone assault wounded 4 folks and badly broken a well-known market. #Ukraine’s Prime Minister mentioned a few of the buildings focused had been UNESCO protected.

“#Russia continues its terror and obstructs diplomacy, which is why it deserves full-scale sanctions responses, as well as our strikes on their logistics, their military bases, and their military production facilities,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on social media.

He mentioned #Russia had launched 103 drones — primarily Iranian-designed Shahed unmanned aerial autos — and 4 missiles.

In #Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike killed two girls and wounded a number of others within the southern metropolis of #Sochi, regional authorities mentioned.

The #Russian defence ministry mentioned its air-defence techniques had downed 39 Ukrainian unmanned aerial autos, primarily over southern areas of the nation.