Russian strikes against Donetsk Oblast injure 5.

Russian forces carried out attacks against Toretsk, Petropavlivka, and Molodenke in Donetsk Oblast, injuring three men and two women, the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office reported. Russia targeted the town of Toretsk with artillery, hitting a house and injuring a 52-year-old man who suffered head wounds as a result, the prosecutors said. According to the report, Russian forces also targeted the village of Petropavlivka in the Volnovakha district with rockets.

A 36-year-old woman and a 56-year-old man reportedly suffered shrapnel injuries in the attack. In the Molodenke village of the Pokrovsk district, Russian attacks injured a 79-year-old man and his 81-year-old wife who were in their garden at the time of the attack. Donetsk Oblast has been partially occupied by Russia since 2014 and suffers regular strikes by the invading forces.

On Sept.

20, Russian troops attacked Toretsk and its outskirts Pivnichne, injuring four people.

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Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press.

He also volunteers as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukrainer.

Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.