Russians shell Ukrainsk in Donetsk Oblast, killing two civilians and injuring one more
Russian forces bombarded the town of Ukrainsk in the Donetsk Oblast with artillery on the afternoon of August 12, 2024. Russians killed two people and wounded one more.
Vadym Filashkin, head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration reported on social media that around noon, the Russians shelled the town and damaged two five-storey residential buildings.
“There is less than 10 kilometres from Ukrainsk to the line of contact. The town is in an area that is impacted by various weapons. It is dangerous to stay there! Please, evacuate on time!” he wrote.
Оn the morning of August 8, 2024, Russians killed one civilian as a result of attacks on the City of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
According to Serhii Lysak, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram, Russian Armed Forces struck the territory of a hospital, killing a 50-year-old man.
“Medical staff fought for his life until the end. Sadly, they couldn’t save the injured man,” he wrote on Telegram.
Lysak added that the attack damaged the hospital building, garages, a car, and a power line.
According to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, at least 219 civilians were killed and 1,018 injured in Ukraine in July 2024, which makes it the deadliest month for civilians since October 2022. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine stated that the high number of casualties in July continues a trend of increasing civilian casualties since March 2024.
The UN pointed out that a large-scale coordinated attack launched by the Russian Armed Forces across Ukraine on July 8, 2024, killed at least 43 civilians, including 5 children, and injured 147, including 7 children, in Kyiv City, Dnipro City, Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) and Kyiv region.
One missile in the 8 July attack also struck a hospital complex in Kyiv city, destroying the toxicology department of the Okhmatdyt National Children’s Hospital and significantly damaging the Center for Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.
In June and July, the most intensive offensive military operations by the Russian Armed Forces shifted from the northern Kharkiv region to the Donetsk region, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine noted. As a result, verified civilian casualties in the Donetsk region increased from 125 civilians killed or injured in May to 224 in June and 269 in July 2024.
The vast majority of civilian casualties (90%) and damage to educational and health facilities (86%) continued to occur in Government-controlled territory.
As for now, it is impossible to determine the exact number of casualties, as Ukrainian law enforcement agencies and the representatives of the ICC have no access to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
