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Russia continues to focus its efforts on establishing full control over the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said today, as quoted by the Ukrinform agency.

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Another goal of the Russian army is to hold the occupied parts of Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.

It is trying to create favorable conditions for the resumption of the offensive and is carrying out air and missile strikes on military and civilian targets in Ukraine, the briefing says.

The Ukrainian General Staff did not report any particular changes in the situation on the ground during the last 24 hours and reported a number of repulsed Russian attacks.

Kyiv: At least five killed in Russian bombings over Kharkiv

Kharkiv was shelled during the night.

According to preliminary data, four cars and two infrastructure objects were damaged, but no one was injured, Igor Terekhov, the mayor of the second largest Ukrainian city, reported in Telegram, quoted by UNIAN.

He specified that the strike was carried out by a S-300 missile.

A 56-year-old man was wounded during Russian shelling at night with "Grad" rocket launchers in the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the chairman of the military administration in the central Ukrainian region, Valentin Reznichenko, said.

Four civilians were killed and eight, including two children, were injured in Ukrainian shelling in the "Donetsk People's Republic" over the past 24 hours, TASS reported, citing the separatists.

The data of the parties to the conflict have not been independently verified.

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