Russian forces shelled all the frontline of the Donetsk area on Thursday night time into Friday morning, in keeping with the pinnacle of the regional navy administration, as preventing within the jap Ukrainian area grinds on.
Pavlo Kyrylenko mentioned the cities of Vuhledar and Kurakhivska have been among the many settlements that got here beneath assault. The metropolis of Kostyantynivka, which is a few 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the entrance line, was hit by rocket hearth on Thursday, damaging colleges and a theater.
The Ukrainian navy additionally reported artillery shelling of Maryinka and Avdiivka in Donetsk on Friday morning. It mentioned Russian forces have been intensifying their assaults round a number of settlements instantly to the west and north of Donetsk metropolis, an space the place the entrance strains have modified little because the Russian invasion.
Much of the battle’s fiercest preventing has raged round the important thing Donetsk metropolis of Bakhmut. Both sides have been locked in brutal battle there since Russian forces launched their siege on the town in earnest in May.
An adviser to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, Oleksiy Arestovych, mentioned on Thursday that Ukrainian and Russian forces have been each experiencing heavy troop losses in Bakhmut, and the close by metropolis of Soledar, describing the preventing there as “very serious.”
Elsewhere: Russian forces attacked a number of components of the jap Luhansk area, the place Ukrainian forces have made modest features since September, in keeping with the Ukrainian navy.
In the north-eastern area of Sumy, officers reported cross-border mortar hearth, the implications of which have been unclear.
And within the southern Zaporizhzhia area, authorities mentioned that almost twenty settlements have been shelled, a number of of them far from the entrance strains, damaging flats and civilian infrastructure.