Ukraine kills civilians with US-made rockets governor

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22 Aug 2025, 05:43 GMT+10

Kievs troops used the HIMARS system to attack the Russian city of Yenakievo on Thursday

Ukrainian troops struck the Russian city of Yenakievo on Thursday evening, killing two civilians and injuring 21 others, the top regional official said.

According to Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) head Denis Pushilin, US-made HIMARS rocket launchers and kamikaze drones were used in the attack. He added that nine houses in Yenakievo and nearby Gorlovka were damaged.

Yenakievo was close to the front line until Russian forces gradually pushed Ukrainian troops westward, liberating the city of Dzerzhinsk (known in Ukraine as Toretsk) in February.

The DPR declared independence from Ukraine in 2014 following a Western-backed coup in Kiev earlier that year. In September 2022, the region voted to join Russia.

Moscow has demanded that Ukraine withdraw its troops from the western parts of the DPR as one of the conditions for a ceasefire. Kiev, however, has ruled out any territorial concessions.

Last week, US President Donald Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss possible ways to resolve the conflict. On Monday, Trump hosted Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky along with the leaders of Western Europe, the EU, and NATO.

Russia has proposed raising the level of its delegation in talks with Ukraine, while Trump has pushed for a potential Putin-Zelensky meeting.

(RT.com)

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