Update: 7 killed, 67 injured in Russian attack on Pokrovsk.

Ukraine's Interior Ministry reported[1] that at least seven people were killed in Russian strike on Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast on Aug.

7. The ministry added that the number of wounded increased to 67, and includes two children, 29 police officers, and seven emergency workers. The central part of Pokrovsk was hit at least twice in less than an hour in the evening of Aug.

7 , damaging apartment buildings, private residences, a hotel, restaurants, shops, and administrative buildings, Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported[2]. Rescue operations were resumed at 7 a.m. local time, Ihor Klymenko, Interior Minister, said[3] on Aug.

8 via his official Telegram page, adding that the rescuers had to stop working at night due to high threat of Russian strikes. Russian forces have killed a total of 1,645 residents of Donetsk Oblast since the start of the full-scale invasion and have injured an additional 3,939 others, according to regional authorities.

Actual casualties are believed far exceed reported numbers as current figures do not include those in Russian-occupied settlements.

Russia attacks Kharkiv Oblast with guided aerial bombs, killing civilians Russian forces dropped four guided aerial bombs at the village of Kruhliakivka in Kharkiv Oblast on the evening of Aug.

7, killing two civilians aged 45 and 60, reported Governor Oleh Syniehubov.

Development manager, Canadian correspondent

Olena Goncharova is a development manager and Canadian correspondent for the Kyiv Independent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper's Canadian correspondent in June 2018.

She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master's degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months.

The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

References

1. ^ reported (t.me)
2. ^ reported (kyivindependent.com)
3. ^ said (t.me)
4. ^ Russia attacks Kharkiv Oblast with guided aerial bombs, killing civiliansRussian forces dropped four guided aerial bombs at the village of Kruhliakivka in Kharkiv Oblast on the evening of Aug.

   7, killing two civilians aged 45 and 60, reported Governor Oleh Syniehubov. (kyivindependent.com)