Five civilians wounded by Russian shelling in Donetsk region

The Russian army wounded five residents of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on Friday, August 18.

Donetsk region governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said this in a post on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"On August 18, the Russians wounded five residents of the Donetsk region: four in Chasiv Yar and one in Kurakhove," he wrote.

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Kyrylenko also noted that it was currently impossible to establish the exact number of civilian casualties in Mariupol and Volnovakha.