Russian assaults kill 5, together with household, in east Ukraine

A pair and their 36-year-old son had been killed in a village within the japanese Kharkiv area on late Wednesday, native officers mentioned. Two extra girls had been killed within the Donetsk area on Thursday (July 24, 2025).

Russia has stepped up drone and missile assaults on Ukraine greater than three years into its invasion, even because the fighters meet for ceasefire talks.

The Russian military has additionally been making advances on the bottom. Families with youngsters had been ordered out of 10 settlements in Donetsk, together with the city of Dobropillia, the place 28,000 folks lived earlier than the battle.

“I emphasise once again: staying in the Donetsk region is extremely dangerous,” mentioned regional governor Vadim Filashkin.

Donetsk regional officers issued blurred photos of one of many bloodied girls killed in Kostyantynivka, the place a dozen different folks had been wounded. Russian forces are progressively encircling the commercial hub.

A strike afterward Kharkiv metropolis wounded 37 folks, together with a 10-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy and woman, the governor mentioned.

A separate Russian drone and missile barrage wounded seven folks in a single day, together with a toddler, within the central Ukrainian area of Cherkasy, emergency providers mentioned.

And within the southern port metropolis of Odesa, a Russian drone assault wounded 4 folks and badly broken a well-known market. Ukraine’s Prime Minister mentioned a few of the buildings focused had been UNESCO protected.

“Russia continues its terror and obstructs diplomacy, which is why it deserves full-scale sanctions responses, as well as our strikes on their logistics, their military bases, and their military production facilities,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on social media.

He mentioned Russia had launched 103 drones — primarily Iranian-designed Shahed unmanned aerial autos — and 4 missiles.

In Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike killed two girls and wounded a number of others within the southern metropolis of Sochi, regional authorities mentioned.

The Russian defence ministry mentioned its air-defence techniques had downed 39 Ukrainian unmanned aerial autos, primarily over southern areas of the nation.