Ukraine suffered yet another a wave of drone and artillery attacks on Thursday night, with five people killed in the Donetsk region, and explosions rocking the capital once again.
The head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, Vadym Filashkin, said the deaths occurred in the areas of Pokrovsk, Bilytske and Illinivka.
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In Pokrovsk, Russian shelling killed two men in their late forties while in Bilytske, a 54-year-old and a 69-year-old man were killed, a woman was wounded, and four two-story buildings and three garages were damaged.
In Illinivka, a Russian FPV drone killed a man who was celebrating his 47th birthday.
Others were wounded in Kostiantynivka, Myrnohrad and Mykolaivka, where invading forces targeted a civilian on a motorcycle with an FPV drone.
In all, nearly a dozen high-rise residential buildings were damaged along with coffee shops, bus stops, administrative buildings and power infrastructure.
“The Russians continue to deliberately hunt down civilians. Don’t make yourself their target! Evacuate in a timely manner,” Filashkin urged.
In the Kharkiv region, a Russian drone targeted a civilian car on the highway between the villages of Vilkhuvatka and Prykolotne.
“The investigation established that on July 3, at around 12:00 p.m., a Russian FPV drone struck a car in which a married couple was traveling,” the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office wrote on Telegram.
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“The 56-year-old driver suffered explosive injuries. His wife, a 51-year-old woman, suffered an acute stress reaction,” the prosecutor’s office said.
In the capital, Kyiv Post correspondents in reported intermittent explosions since at least 9 p.m. local time, with bursts resembling machine gunfire audible near the city center, likely from Ukrainian air defense.
Mayor Vitalii Klitschko on his official telegram channel reported, “[Ukrainian] air defense forces are operating on the left bank of the city. Enemy UAVs [drones] are still entering the capital. Stay in cover.”
Ukrinform reported that Ukrainian air defense forces shot down at least one drone in the Solomyanski district.
The attack comes as the US announced that it would halt the shipment of critical air defense to Ukraine, including missiles for the Patriot air defense system.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to call US President Donald Trump on Friday to discuss the supply of weapons and key aid to Ukraine.
Last month, Ukraine’s Air Defense Forces shot down double the number of drones from the previous month, destroying a total of 4,750 air targets during the month, which included 159 cruise, ballistic, and guided missiles.
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